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20 Lines That Could Have Dramatically Changed _The Lord of the Rings_
20 Lines That Could Have Dramatically Changed The Lord of the Rings — “I know it’s preposterous, Witch-King. But we’ve got more than enough orcs here to wipe out Gondor. Post a thousand Uruk-hai by the lava pit on Mount Doom, just in case. Humor me.â€?
Posted on December 9, 2006 at 3:00 pm in Elsewhere · comment
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Web Standards for E-books — Joe Clark is always worth reading, but in this article he’s tackling the intersection of my two professions. Excellent stuff.
#They get points off for staring the article with, “Since ancient times,” but if you need to hand someone an intro reading list for urban fantasy, you could do a lot worse than Library Journal’s list. My other quibble? I would have starred Bitten.
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