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Nobody's been kind enough to fill my inbox with pointless email and journal replies today, so I'm spending my day alternating between staring at ASP and willing it to work and reading a lovely wankfest over on rec.arts.sf.composition, which started as Earthsea wank but ended up as Tolkien-elitist wank. It really hits its stride on the second page and keeps going, punctuated by wank about racism and discussions of multicultural and transgendered productions og Othello.

I think that perhaps my favorite bit is this aside:

[referring to Glorfindel]
> Death by Balrog is not necessarily an inconvenience.

For some reason, this triggered an image:

[... fast forward to GANDALF and SAURON at an impasse ...]

SAURON: You've beaten my Balrog, which means you're exceptionally
strong. So, you could have put the Ring in your own hobbit,
trusting on your strength to save you. So I can clearly not
choose the hobbit in front of you.