Words in Words

[The Laurenendorian]

If you wish to follow the tradition of Tolkien's earlier writings and create a spell which makes use of objects, to find relevant words in irrelevant background waffle, you should do the following: first, take a dragon tooth and infuse it in a granite basin of ram's blood for at least a week. Next, add three drops of water collected at dawn on the Elves' New Year (yestarë), pass a raven's feather over the thing once (from the right unto the left), and with all the ebuliance that you can muster, toss cat hair into a fire that has been burning for three days, has never burned anything but the bark of birch trees. If this is all done, the correct words should appear in your mind's eye, as if by magic, so to speak.