Word: blakean
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...gold, and on it were graven runes of victory. A power was in it that guarded any who wore it from wound or death, for the sword that hewed it was broken, and the dart that smote it sprang aside." Et cetera. The book also comes with some pseudo-Blakean illustrations by Alan Lee.) But once you surrender to the richness of Tolkien's vision, the immersive detail of it, the faux-archaic diction barely registers. Children, as a short work, never achieves the towering operatic grandeur of the trilogy, but it's a huge pleasure to be back...
...hesitated as he stood over the C’est Bon counter to purchase a six-pack of Corona Light. “This is just going to slide down the gullet of some skank trotch-ho posthaste,” he reflected bitterly, descending into Blakean contemplation. “What immortal hand or eye or trotch could frame thy fearful symmetry...
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