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50-Year Reread of The Lord of the Rings – 4: Pippin and Merry – Prospective Cultures
https://prospectiveculture.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/50-year-reread-of-the-lord-of-the-rings-4-pippin-and-merry/
A blog series in which I reread LOTR 50 years after I first read it, age 10, over the winter of 1975-76. Pippin and Merry come as a double act (not exactly ‘dumb and dumber’, but not a million miles from that either) in the Jackson film version of LOTR, providing both light relief and…
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Lindy West, Elizabeth Gilbert and the Nightmare of the Personal Essay Industrial Complex
https://www.pajiba.com/celebrities_are_better_than_you/lindy-west-elizabeth-gilbert-and-the-nightmare-of-the-personal-essay-industrial-complex.php?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
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