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    <title>tolkien</title>
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    <updated>2026-05-18T17:27:42+00:00</updated>
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            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7437</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[50-Year Reread of The Lord of the Rings – 4: Pippin and Merry – Prospective Cultures]]></title>
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                <name><![CDATA[mary]]></name>
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                <![CDATA[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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            <updated>2026-05-09T02:13:53+00:00</updated>
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            <id>https://liber.puzzling.org/links/7404</id>
            <title type="text"><![CDATA[Collections: Why Celebrimbor Fell but Boromir Conquered: the Moral Universe of Tolkien – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry]]></title>
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                <![CDATA[This week (and probably next) I want to talk a bit more Tolkien, but in a somewhat different vein from normal. Rather than discussing the historicity of Tolkien&amp;#039;s world or adaptations of it, I want to take a moment to discuss some of the themes of Tolkien&amp;#039;s work, which express themselves in the metaphysical architecture…]]>
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            <updated>2026-03-27T01:24:50+00:00</updated>
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