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Continue reading Three Men in a Boat (to Say Nothing of the Dog)
Category: Literature
In any type of writing, there are three possible points of view: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, or me, you, and other. There are three periods of the English language’s history: Old, Middle, and Modern. And dramas traditionally have three parts: prot asis, epitasis, and catastrophe.
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Lord of the Rings is an epic fantasy story by J. R. R. Tolkien, a sequel to his earlier work, The Hobbit. It was published in three volumes in 1954 and 1955. Three movie productions have been made: the first, by animator Ralph Bakshi was released in 1978 (as part one of what was originally to be a two-part adaptation of the story); the second being a 1980 television special; and the third being director Peter Jackson’s film trilogy released in 2001, 2002, and 2003. For more information on the fictional universe the story takes place in, including lists of characters and locations, see Middle-earth.
The story’s titular character is the Dark Lord Sauron of Mordor. The primary villain of the work, he created the One Ring to control nineteen other Rings of Power, and is thus the “Lord of the Rings.” Sauron, in turn, was the servant of an earlier Dark Lord, Morgoth (Melkor), who is prominent in Tolkien’s The Silmarillion, the history of Middle-earth.
“Three rings to the eleven kings.”
THE THREE BOOKS OF LORD OF THE RINGS
- FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
- THE TWO TOWERS
- RETURN OF THE KING
Jack and the Beanstalk
The Story of Jack and the Beanstalk
ONCE upon a time there was a poor widow who lived in a little cottage with her only son Jack.
Jack was a giddy, thoughtless boy, but very kind-hearted and affectionate. There had been a hard winter, and after it the poor woman had suffered from fever and ague. Jack did no work as yet, and by degrees they grew dreadfully poor. The widow saw that there was no means of keeping Jack and herself from starvation but by selling her cow; so one morning she said to her son, 'I am too weak to go myself, Jack, so you must take the cow to market for me, and sell her.'
