In case you were wondering...

[linaewen]

I'm doing fine as far as the tooth goes. I don't like the taste in my mouth that comes from the temporary aluminum thing they put in, and it bumps painfully on my upper teeth, but I can live with that for a few weeks! Other than that, I am pain free, except for the usual sinus pain that troubles me when it is cool and rainy -- like it is today.

I'm doing fine in other ways as well; I think I am catching up, in spite of the attempts of my Ruling List of Doom to get the better of me. Even if I am deluded and I am not truly catching up, at least I am less stressed about it!

I'm getting lots of opportunities at work to do different kinds of writing. One article I have been asked to do is about the transition I have experienced over the past couple of years. I am thinking of writing that article based on the example of Bilbo and his pocket hankerchiefs -- if I am brave enough to use an example from Tolkien to illustrate a point in a mission newsletter!

I think I am brave enough, hehe!

Comments

[maidoforange.livejournal.com]

I am SURE you are brave enough, (((Lin))). I am glad you are doing better tooth-wise.

[primsong.livejournal.com]

I love the idea - by all means, write it! :-)

Good to hear that your tooth is better too.

[madamenorthstar.livejournal.com]

Isn't it funny how one can find an example in LOTR to illustrate almost any situation? I have to wonder if JRRT had ANY idea of the effect his work would have on so many people, and how many of us would find it applicable?

[solodancer.livejournal.com]

I know!!! I'm really good in general at finding applicability in things. I love making up "parables" using every day things. But there is so much material in Tolkien.

I think it's great that he didn't write it as allegory and instead wrote it the way he did. I love the chronicles of Narnia, but those were written far more specifically so it's harder to pull anything out of it other than what Lewis intended. For instance, there are a plethora (there's my $10 word for the day)of Christ figures in Tolkien, but in the Narnia stories, there is really only one. (Aslan)

[madamenorthstar.livejournal.com]

( Hands Solo a poker chip in lieu of "real money")
Prim, Sandy needs a vocabulary gold star too! =P

That's very true regarding the Narnia chronicles. It would be interesting to go back now and re-read them having read so much Tolkien and look for how the two authors influenced each other.

[solodancer.livejournal.com]

I think if you can use something you love to make the point, why the heck not?

I had fun doing the LOTR thing at the youth congress last year and it went over really well. I keep wondering if they're gonna ask me to do it again this year.

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[faramirgirl.livejournal.com]

Glad that your tooth is doing better. Yes sinus can be a pain in the butt. You are a talent and a wonderful writter and it suprises me none that others would want you to write for them. List of Doom I have giving up of my, figure that I would get it all done sooner or later.