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Roseanna Pendlebury
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SFF enthusiast, hobby-collector, blogger, shouter-at-the-internet. Editor at Ignyte and Hugo winner Nerds of a Feather, along with reviews elsewhere. 2025 Hugo Fan Writer finalist. All links here: https://linktr.ee/roseanna.pendlebury (she/her).
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chloroformtea.bsky.social
This is way more banger than I was expecting to be possible for Bombadil.
November 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
chloroformtea.bsky.social
Well, it'll probably get me through about half of it. But that's a problem for me this afternoon.
November 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
chloroformtea.bsky.social
I really enjoyed The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
November 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
chloroformtea.bsky.social
Ooh exciting. I have an arc of this waiting.
November 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
chloroformtea.bsky.social
I am interested in these reasons and look forward to the fullness of time
a man in a star trek uniform is sitting in front of a console
Alt: Spock looks intrigued
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November 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
chloroformtea.bsky.social
Somehow you being beset by the pun mafia makes this a million times better
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Reposted by Roseanna Pendlebury
edmorland.bsky.social
We now got the penultimate section of the Fellowship as we come to the second of the two islands of Elvendom in the book.
Lothlórien Why yes Tolkien you did indeed foreshadow this, well done Retreating from the past, recent and less recent Durin's crown is a lovely moment, a glimpse of the mythic Lothlórien already marked as a place outside of time As always a tale of consequences and practicalities Gollum haunting Frodo but for now him alone Not all Elves know one another "A plain road" - Boromir longs for the familiar even if dangerous It is the grief at the heart of everything that makes the Elves work Not convinced the Elf Dwarf bickering fully works, does give a sense of history but no depth to it yet Hello dialect/language Appendix "Behind came Sam trying not to breath loudly" I am Haldir, an Elf who believes in multiculturalism except Dwarves We're definitely into one of the resting sequences of the book but Tolkien isn't letting us forget the danger just yet Everyone annoyed by compromise "And though in all lands love it's now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater." Direct Rivendell Lórien comparison A lot of writers grasp at wonder, Tolkien does better than most Sunlight and bright day vs moon and stars Previous descriptions of heightened reality vs something other "Whereas the light perceives the very heart of the darkness, its own secret had not been discovered" Again the grief of elvendom seasons the wonder The Mirror of Galadriel And from here many potentially implausible tree cities sprung Back to the star descriptions Gandalf habitually obscured even from Galadriel's sight "Needless were none of the deeds of Gandalf in life" Rapprochement through shared understanding of loss "The long defeat" We are going full witchy with Galadriel, Celeborn is also here The individual tests ring very Arthurian Again Elves and time being but passing acquantainces Legolas Gimli friendship, no need to document every scene Are accomplishments at poetry the only true mark of a moral individual, discuss Elves as Hobbits, people as land, what is magic? There is an answer to the final question which is stop asking that question if you don't understand Foreshadowing, sideshadowing, Sam's unhappy Could Merry have averted things if back in the Shire, I want to say no Frodo gets much more evocative but unclear visions "a rustic folk of dell and cave" what could be worse It's a great page, an all time banger. Grief, pride, sorrow, acceptance. She's really not long on the page but Galadriel does an awful lot with what she has. Anyway, a quick bulletin on ring usage "You'd put things to rights" " That is how it would begin"
November 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
chloroformtea.bsky.social
Bargain
Bookshop.org ebook page showing The Hexologists for £2.99
November 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM