Best Post of the Week

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Wonderful to see people contributing here, and learning the various ideas and styles each of us appreciates! Helen's post is poignant and Inktomi Slurp Spider is certainly generating curiosity, but I would like to recommend a post here from someone who is long overdue for acknowledgement of fantastic contributions to the Downs.

Behind this post lie many others, week by week, which direct and inspire a very long-term discussion. Each of them could easily be nominated here, but since I'm back this week with my new computer, I have chosen to draw your attention to Estelyn Telcontar's initial post in the Chapter by Chapter thread "Book 3, chapter 11, The Palantir."

What I like in particular about this post is that is raises questions for us to answer about Pippin and provides some context for the use of the poem in this chapter. We seem quickly in the Chapter by Chapter discussion to jump ahead with ideas and connections and less interested in tying in the current thread with what has gone before. Not something wrong by any means, but it is good to have the eagle eye of the Ghosted Princess keeping track of when things were last brought into the story.

Kudos, Estelyn!