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Ten new year’s resolutions for fans of ‘The Lord of the Rings’
12.31.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | Speak, friend and comment!

Whether you were introduced to Tolkien by Orlando Bloom’s shield-surfing antics, or if you have read The Lord of the Rings every summer since the 3rd grade (guilty), there is always more you can do to become the Tolkien superfan you have always aspired to be.

Here are ten suggestions…
Language, News
Oxford Dictionary’s 2009 Word of the Year: ‘Unfriend’
11.18.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | 2 Comments

The editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary have chosen “unfriend” as its “2009 Word of the Year,” beating out other Internet-oriented neologisms such as “hashtag,” “netbook,” “paywall” and “sexting.”

Tolkien aficionados may remember the word from The Silmarillion, where it is used twice (once in the form “unfriendship”).