The Jackdaw Was Skillful, Cunning, And Wise,

The Jackdaw was skillful, cunning, and wise,

And to the Snake, he told pretty lies.

“Swear allegiance to me and take what you desire!”

Yet fate would prove the Jackdaw a liar.

For better or worse, the two were bound together

Both conniving and plotting, birds of a feather.

The Jackdaw gave orders, the Snake obeyed.

His country and king, the Snake betrayed.

Yet the day came quick when the Snake was exposed.

The Jackdaw no longer went unopposed.

The two were cast out and forced to wander,

To lands far away, over rivers and yonder.

The Jackdaw was angry, bitter, and lost,

And to the poor Snake, this came at a cost.

Beaten and cursed, forced to crawl and squirm,

The Jackdaw laughed, “You are no Snake but a Worm!”

Such cruel taunts would be the Jackdaw’s last mistake,

As he was struck down not by the fangs of a worm-

But of a Snake!

I'd love to!!

Soooooo I tried to do a LotR bookclub this year with some friends and all of them kinda gave up toward the end of The Fellowship but...I kind of want to try again. But I wanted to see if people who are actually into LotR would be interested.

Basically the idea is you can do a low commitment reading of the entire Lord of the Rings in a year by reading 3 pages per day (if you have a single volume edition, however I made a start/stop guide for people who didn't.) I wanted something that was pretty low commitment because I was annotating the book. Sometimes I'd read a week at a time, some days I'd actually just read 3 pages. It's really just preference or doing what works for your schedule. But every 2 weeks we'd have a discussion of the section we read. It was pretty fun and there were lots of details we got to dig into by breaking it down into these smaller chunks.

Would anyone be interested in doing A Year of LotR in 2024?

I'd probably try to have a similar format of biweekly (super chill and informal) discussions, but I'd work out the details with anyone who was interested.

Ladies and gentleman, Cameron.

Love is real ya'll

rest of the sp art dump ^^

can I offer you some MORE skelebros gijinkas in this trying time?