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Clearing the Browser Tabs – Happy Birthday Professor Tolkien Wednesday Edition

Jimmie | January 5, 2011 | Comments (0)

I do not know how this slipped past me, but Monday was the eleventy-ninth birthday of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.I have a special love for Tolkien’s works, since his tales of Hobbits and Middle Earth kindled in me at a fairly young age a love for reading that I’ve never managed to lose.

I found a couple little treats: audio clips of Tolkien reading his own work. It’s a shame no one thought to get a recording of him reading The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. I’d shell out a few bucks for those in audiobook form.

Here is the scene where Gandalf deciphers the inscription on The One Ring and here is his rendition of “The Road Goes Ever On”.

And now, links.

What does a second of our national debt look like? Andrew Malcolm has a good set of pictures.
Who knew that the left would respond to a simple reading of the Constitution with such scorn and revulsion? It’s almost as if they don’t consider our founding document to be all that important or something.
How did our Constitution become little more than a quaint curio to many of our political and judicial leaders? Jeff Goldstein has a little history.
The Obamacare fight is on. Republicans introduced a two-page bill to kill the over 2000-page monstrosity and set a vote date for January 12 . That, by the way, is more time that Democrats gave us all to read their bill. Senate Democrats have rattled their sabers (via memeorandum) but soon-to-be Speaker Boehner is not even slightly cowed (via Weasel Zippers).