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Out of the Information Highway to Middle-Earth I Am Come: A Review of The Lord of the Rings Online
BY EMERALD Within the storyline, a player’s character participates in certain portions of the quest to destroy the Ring.
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Where Are My Lembas?: A Lord of the Rings Poem
BY EMILY GEERLING O where, O where have my lembas gone? O where, O where can they be?! I’ve look in the sack and I’ve looked on the ground!
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A Not So Horrible Beginning – Part 2
BY EMILY RADEMACHER I hopped out; the sky was an inky blue and looked as if diamonds were littered across it.
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An Extract from the Files of George Whitby, Investigator: A Mystery Based on the Game “Clue”
BY MARY-FAUSTINA & CLARE-THERESE “It’s Lord Somerton, sir,” he says. “Someone tried to murder him over an hour ago.”
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Bringing Sight to the Blind: A Movie Review of "Amazing Grace"
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI As a period piece, it excels for good taste, balance, and a keen ability to connect the past with the present.
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In Love with Squirrels: A Review of M.I. McAllister’s “The Mistmantle Chronicles”
BY CLARE-THERESE On the bookshelf above my desk at this moment rest five beautiful books, the bindings of which are all inscribed The Mistmantle Chronicles.
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A Not So Horrible Beginning – Part 1
BY EMILY RADEMACHER I sighed, watching my hands slip the earring into my ear. My reflection stared back at me with a sulky expression.
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Book Reviews: The Fault in Our Stars and Divergent
BY AMIRA FITZPATRICK The Fault In Our Stars, by John Green, is an excellent novel that includes romance, first love, and much, much sadness.
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Ram’s Horns: Isaac Narrates the Sacrifice on Moriah
BY CLARE-THERESE “Both of you stay here with the donkey, while the boy and I go on over younger. We will worship and then come back to you.”
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O For a Star: A Lord of the Rings Poem
BY MARY-FAUSTINA And now it is my foe who cries, staggering back, a cowering mass before this tiny phial of glass!
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Bart the Bard
BY EMERALD “Your only chance is to infiltrate Marvin’s stronghold and get the sword back.”
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The Cave: Plato’s Fable and Christian Salvation
BY CAROLYN MANION For Plato, the cave is the material world, beguiling man to trust the fleeting images he apprehends with his senses.
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Book Review: Unraveling by Sara Ella
BY EMILY KOPF I loved the first book very much because of all the symbolism and allegory teaching about Real love.
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Book Review: The Unwanteds
BY SHANE HASTINGS Alex is one of the Unwanteds, sentenced to be thrown in The Great Lake of Boiling Oil at the dreaded Death Farm.
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Writer’s Magic: Creating Political Plotlines in Your Novel
BY MIRRIAM NEAL The threads that make up any nation or country are political. It’s hard to write a book without them.
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The Marriage of the White Lady: A Lord of the Rings Story
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI “You know I would never force you to be my wife, Eowyn. I would rather die than cage your free spirit.”
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Book Review: Toward the Gleam
BY EULALIA HOGERS Toward the Gleam is story of mysteries and secrets with further layers of mystery on top of mysteries.
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LOTR = LOve it, or TRy harder!
BY MARY-FAUSTINA My nine-year-old face twitched with unmitigated disgust. My eyes stretched to perfect circles. “Dad—what are you watching?”
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Interesting and Little-Known Facts about Our Former Presidents
BY MARIE JEANETTE William Taft was the Chief Executive who began the presidential tradition of throwing the first pitch of the baseball season.