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liptonrm_backupWell, now that some time has passed since the horrific drive into work, I'm feeling much more chipper;-). The drive wasn't bad because of the roads, though those were snow-covered, no, it was bad because of all of the stupid people out there. I pretty much hate other drivers right now. You know guys, you don't really have to drive that slow, the snow isn't going to kill you, I promise.
Well, class started without a hitch. I was aided by the fact that the professor is visiting from Rutgers so she has no idea of what's going on and how things work at the good ol' U-M. The class is entitled Women and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and America and it looks to be quite interesting. My only beef, so far, is how everyone seems to be searching for simplistic explanations for the witch craze of that period. If history has taught me anything it's that there is never only one reason for large social events and things are rarely as they seem to be. There'll be lots of papers to write, but we get to watch movies too, Yay! Apparently during one of the classes we'll be watching The Exorcist so I think I won't be too disappointed with the overall class experience;-).
It's very cold outside and our furnace turned itself off during the night. Thankfully it came back on, but not before plunging the house into arctic temperartures. I really like winter, but couldn't this have all happened a week ago when I could have enjoyed it more?
1/7:Quenta Silmarillion Quenta Silmarillion is a compendious history of the early days of Arda, beginning with the creation of the Lamps of the Valar and ending with the Great Battle and the casting-out of Melkor at the end of the First Age of Middle-earth. Composed from accounts by the Eldar of Beleriand, Quenta Silmarillion focuses on the revolt of the Noldor and the War of the Great Jewels. Great emphasis is placed on the deeds of the Edain, but the main theme of the history, as its title in part implies, is the tragedy that resulted when the evil of Melkor defiled the Two Trees and the Silmarils, the greatest constructions of the Valar and the Children of Iluvatar.
Quenta Silmarillion was no doubt one of Bilbo's Translations from the Elvish, preserved in teh Red Book of Westmarch. The Ainulindale and the Valaquenta were closely associated with it.
Quenta Silmarillion is also called The Silmarillion.
Well, class started without a hitch. I was aided by the fact that the professor is visiting from Rutgers so she has no idea of what's going on and how things work at the good ol' U-M. The class is entitled Women and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and America and it looks to be quite interesting. My only beef, so far, is how everyone seems to be searching for simplistic explanations for the witch craze of that period. If history has taught me anything it's that there is never only one reason for large social events and things are rarely as they seem to be. There'll be lots of papers to write, but we get to watch movies too, Yay! Apparently during one of the classes we'll be watching The Exorcist so I think I won't be too disappointed with the overall class experience;-).
It's very cold outside and our furnace turned itself off during the night. Thankfully it came back on, but not before plunging the house into arctic temperartures. I really like winter, but couldn't this have all happened a week ago when I could have enjoyed it more?
1/7:Quenta Silmarillion Quenta Silmarillion is a compendious history of the early days of Arda, beginning with the creation of the Lamps of the Valar and ending with the Great Battle and the casting-out of Melkor at the end of the First Age of Middle-earth. Composed from accounts by the Eldar of Beleriand, Quenta Silmarillion focuses on the revolt of the Noldor and the War of the Great Jewels. Great emphasis is placed on the deeds of the Edain, but the main theme of the history, as its title in part implies, is the tragedy that resulted when the evil of Melkor defiled the Two Trees and the Silmarils, the greatest constructions of the Valar and the Children of Iluvatar.
Quenta Silmarillion was no doubt one of Bilbo's Translations from the Elvish, preserved in teh Red Book of Westmarch. The Ainulindale and the Valaquenta were closely associated with it.
Quenta Silmarillion is also called The Silmarillion.
