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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/vilya.jpg" align=absmiddle> Hi, y'all!
I have lived in Texas most of my life, though I lived in Europe for four years right after high school. Right now I live in Corpus Christi, Texas, near the beach <img src=cool.gif ALT="8)"> . I first read The Hobbit and then Lord of the Rings when I was 11 or 12; The Silmarillion was released just as I finished Return of the King, so I read that, too. I have also read The Adventures of Tom Bombadill, Smith of Wooten Major, On Faerie Stories (I hope I got those titles right, it's been a while), Unfinished Tales, and Morgoth's Ring (HoME #10). Other books by different authors I really like include The Once and Future King by E.B. White, the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice (especially Memnoch the Devil), and Colleen McCullough's series on the Roman Republic (First Man in Rome, The Grass Crown, etc.). Before I read Tolkien, I read all the Narnia books by C.S. Lewis. Any of you younger elves and hobbits who haven't read them yet should really check 'em out <img src=wink.gif ALT="
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"Long Beren lay, and his spirit wandered upon the dark borders of death, knowing ever an anguish that pursued him from dream to dream. Then suddenly, when her hope was almost spent, he woke again, and looked up, seeing leaves against the sky; and he heard beneath the leaves singing soft and slow beside him Luthien Tinuviel. And it was spring again."</p>