Friday Literature Notes – Tolkien

Posted on 07/29/2016 by Andrew Reynolds

Tolkien’s famous poem starts: “Not all who wander are lost.”

Which is very true.  Some of us are just looking for our glasses.

More insights next week,
Andrew

About Andrew Reynolds

Born in California Did the school thing studying electronics, computers, release engineering and literary criticism. I worked in the high tech world doing software release engineering and am now retired. Then I got prostate cancer. Now I am a blogger and work in my wood shop doing scroll saw work and marquetry.
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29 Responses to Friday Literature Notes – Tolkien

  1. Amber MV says:
    08/17/2016 at 7:17 am

    That’s a dear poem. I memorized it when I was a kid in 6th grade and haven’t forgotten it since.

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  3. dorannrule says:
    07/31/2016 at 7:47 am

    No wonder I am lost most of the time! 🙂

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  4. inesephoto says:
    07/30/2016 at 4:02 pm

    Amen. Glasses have that tendency to wander…

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  5. ParentingIsFunny says:
    07/30/2016 at 9:55 am

    Phew. Way to pull that one out. I read the title and was like, “Literature notes? Literature notes?! Where’s my funny?” And then there it was. Phew. You had me scared there, Andy.

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  6. artseafartsea says:
    07/30/2016 at 12:06 am

    Too true!

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  7. bg says:
    07/29/2016 at 10:18 pm

    That got a good lol from me 😊

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  8. C. J. Hartwell says:
    07/29/2016 at 8:13 pm

    I hate it when they turn up in a spot I checked four times already. How do they do that?

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    • Andrew Reynolds says:
      07/29/2016 at 8:16 pm

      I believe that glasses exist in some kind of quantum reality and ‘wink’ out of existence in direct proportion to our emotional desire to find them. i.e. the only way to find a pair is to give up hope of finding them.

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  9. A Simple Village Undertaker says:
    07/29/2016 at 6:19 pm

    Grasshopper, you are becoming a master of combining the simple with the profound.

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  10. Judy @ NewEnglandGardenAndThread says:
    07/29/2016 at 1:50 pm

    In my case, I always have my glasses but I’m usually looking for my Garmin. 🙂

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  11. Jacqui Murray says:
    07/29/2016 at 10:42 am

    Then there are those of us who start out looking for our glasses and end up wandering. A hybrid, so to speak.

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  12. jennypellett says:
    07/29/2016 at 9:19 am

    And some of us just like to wander…

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  13. jfwknifton says:
    07/29/2016 at 9:00 am

    Tell me about it! It is unbelievable just how the little scamps like to run off and hide several times a day.

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