tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94989802024-03-07T03:08:37.445-05:00The Wolff's TaleMatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05994659431007272552noreply@blogger.comBlogger1599125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498980.post-29478843909682270882022-05-15T18:41:00.001-04:002022-05-15T18:41:22.742-04:00Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians - Chapter 19<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH2_YoOEhBqgmUJaHuMtN4kaZQUOlzcQC9MCgmMG_25Dsdr5-UKlSnSz-RRcZqomVuKoMpW9HB6J8NQj5AbAHSc1E2n1cbPUe3g3p0Fy0FAnpc7RMAdJdWblSvXMV2Q-eqSghwk-VBlD9TfAv_akW9hulIngQq5Yljt7VcAbi5no_cIID-FA/s2100/1E48EC0F-3FB7-4BDA-A91D-237DE4D71050.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1574" data-original-width="2100" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH2_YoOEhBqgmUJaHuMtN4kaZQUOlzcQC9MCgmMG_25Dsdr5-UKlSnSz-RRcZqomVuKoMpW9HB6J8NQj5AbAHSc1E2n1cbPUe3g3p0Fy0FAnpc7RMAdJdWblSvXMV2Q-eqSghwk-VBlD9TfAv_akW9hulIngQq5Yljt7VcAbi5no_cIID-FA/s320/1E48EC0F-3FB7-4BDA-A91D-237DE4D71050.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>As Alcatraz made a pit by using his Talent to break the floor the oldest piped up.<p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “Oh, I know this one.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">When the topic of containing things came up she found the description hilarious. Again I love it when they get the humor in books.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “Containing a Smedry? Containing an incident? </span><span class="s2">😂</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “Neutralizing?”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Me: “Putting out of commission.”</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">(c) 2004-2018 The Wolff's Tale. Please read responsibly -- don't read and drive!</div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05994659431007272552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498980.post-31247804010086549892022-05-14T18:48:00.008-04:002022-05-15T18:40:50.548-04:00Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians - Chapter 18<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNiEeNkhbUGtdFaOibcBfpo7VAHhIqiqfssL5y4tYBigl7YYkIOptSAhfJ7ecZ-2pbA-uKDc15Vos_FO80HVLNpnDwBEOB3MRiba0vA3lDZ1wxbnLmZttsdHRyuYnxzP9kcUoBQHJjaIQQbpOm0mOP_8hXz-W_iHdUCB877SpH-7q-T-oCDg/s4032/E23F90D9-A6CE-45A9-ACF3-1792B4CA5C46.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNiEeNkhbUGtdFaOibcBfpo7VAHhIqiqfssL5y4tYBigl7YYkIOptSAhfJ7ecZ-2pbA-uKDc15Vos_FO80HVLNpnDwBEOB3MRiba0vA3lDZ1wxbnLmZttsdHRyuYnxzP9kcUoBQHJjaIQQbpOm0mOP_8hXz-W_iHdUCB877SpH-7q-T-oCDg/s320/E23F90D9-A6CE-45A9-ACF3-1792B4CA5C46.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>When we saw the pictures of the Dark Oculator’s lenses the oldest immediately noticed something.<p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “They’re all single lenses.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO (excited squeal): “The Sands of Rashid!!”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">When Alcatraz’s Firebringer’s lens was stolen the eight year old had thoughts.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “I knew this would happen. I knew he would take it! It’s easier for them to have it than him.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">When Sing shot at Blackburn she thought it wasn’t fair.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “No cheating!”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">After a lens was reversed she made a logical connection.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “So you need to use it backwards!”</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">(c) 2004-2018 The Wolff's Tale. Please read responsibly -- don't read and drive!</div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05994659431007272552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498980.post-24764237181099445602022-05-13T20:16:00.001-04:002022-05-13T20:16:25.090-04:00Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians - Chapter 17<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh03tVCNqNCF7lRweU459eSIKrngcYOj8lr68wc7u7PnkPclg3sdrtTzl9IWz_GbBAZyzLqwxefx48S2T_sRVrKYXPE7FyCAVrLBH9eb5-o8yZJX7ePAYn_GO3kzb146e_2tUl3HNC8euU-GmSvQG-4XByX_hCJKLpTyPTg4k7BzTZPjF4HuQ/s4032/3BDF101A-6CBC-4EF6-B37A-03A8416BBAB2.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh03tVCNqNCF7lRweU459eSIKrngcYOj8lr68wc7u7PnkPclg3sdrtTzl9IWz_GbBAZyzLqwxefx48S2T_sRVrKYXPE7FyCAVrLBH9eb5-o8yZJX7ePAYn_GO3kzb146e_2tUl3HNC8euU-GmSvQG-4XByX_hCJKLpTyPTg4k7BzTZPjF4HuQ/s320/3BDF101A-6CBC-4EF6-B37A-03A8416BBAB2.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>When Alcatraz and company came to rescue Grandpa Smedry he said that said Alcatraz was late and the eight year old burst out laughing.<p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “He’s the one that is late!”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Then later in the rescue Grandpa Smedry said that they were going to be late.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: He’s always late! That’s his talent! … Why did no blood come [when he was stabbed]?”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Me: “Because he arrived late to the wound.”</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">(c) 2004-2018 The Wolff's Tale. Please read responsibly -- don't read and drive!</div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05994659431007272552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498980.post-59670209152446089452022-05-12T18:47:00.009-04:002022-05-12T21:15:22.321-04:00Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians - Chapter 16<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheo-RhAHN4h-9Mc0ZPpahTn-aJqkMcdQquVLbBp52pF6Te12yvjIc1WYHj2r-nSkOB_tFC-S4LC0NFXwT6mubzCOeNXS1a3ASmwIjZb4BFa0dCdIyT7hfP-TnyFUK8NGQzTrm0is-CSWVp5UMH3urDQH1JFGWbaabzNFIBDMNv4O6u2GKDzA/s4032/DB602E8A-5181-497B-9F69-1A8A40E1302D.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheo-RhAHN4h-9Mc0ZPpahTn-aJqkMcdQquVLbBp52pF6Te12yvjIc1WYHj2r-nSkOB_tFC-S4LC0NFXwT6mubzCOeNXS1a3ASmwIjZb4BFa0dCdIyT7hfP-TnyFUK8NGQzTrm0is-CSWVp5UMH3urDQH1JFGWbaabzNFIBDMNv4O6u2GKDzA/s320/DB602E8A-5181-497B-9F69-1A8A40E1302D.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">When Grandpa Smedry was being tortured one of the kids figured out what was going on when he wasn’t reacting with any sense of pain.</span><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “Gramma Smedry was probably too late for each shot. I hope he’s always too late.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Once Alcatraz mentioned freeing dinosaurs the kids thought it was a hilarious idea.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “Free those guys! I know what the distraction is. </span><span class="s2">😂😂😂</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"> It’s going to be a surprising one! The dinosaurs are escaping.” </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">It didn't quite turn out like she hoped, but you'll have to read the book to find out more.</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">(c) 2004-2018 The Wolff's Tale. Please read responsibly -- don't read and drive!</div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05994659431007272552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498980.post-59961872985521364012022-05-11T18:46:00.010-04:002022-05-12T21:14:40.904-04:00Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians - Chapter 15<p><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE9ubSNL1KSi78u5bSunbcvZvBCo2L3t7J4-DOEUD0v7fQRW9UX3940aGR4v73co0ajbmknwY4S7Lj5IkVhNlv951ivyt27eO_meEQXWpLFGwzHLbIFoo70KgtM02FGJwzC8KU8zF6POWfvacklBhcpMgpqTBkupXNFFjXkaewOpq775tHbw/s4032/48196135-D127-45DE-AA46-06853F60A6AA.jpeg" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE9ubSNL1KSi78u5bSunbcvZvBCo2L3t7J4-DOEUD0v7fQRW9UX3940aGR4v73co0ajbmknwY4S7Lj5IkVhNlv951ivyt27eO_meEQXWpLFGwzHLbIFoo70KgtM02FGJwzC8KU8zF6POWfvacklBhcpMgpqTBkupXNFFjXkaewOpq775tHbw/s320/48196135-D127-45DE-AA46-06853F60A6AA.jpeg" width="320" /></a>8YO: “What’s a bazooka?”</span></p><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I had to briefly explain that it was a weapon that made large explosions as the simplest way to let them know more.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “What’s so special about a cantaloupe lamp?”</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">(c) 2004-2018 The Wolff's Tale. Please read responsibly -- don't read and drive!</div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05994659431007272552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498980.post-63418127679497747462022-05-10T18:46:00.018-04:002022-05-12T21:12:03.993-04:00Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians - Chapter 14<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu831TuolR-kk2nf4rckBcw6WNaJ291ki4s37LIscch2PRfYZK0YW2CB6uCaHz1rPKfhY1MNRoHugDW5dYJxVD6TPQCdx5JGL_nQC-xFru5IpXccvM2XkH7ONxQgiSgPZJOSQTqtGttB89G0aw5pweH_EO0uvWNR2qJ2G_h9d6dLA6Ss2L0w/s4032/505548B9-ADF7-43DD-A258-0F9CCF9FAF84.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu831TuolR-kk2nf4rckBcw6WNaJ291ki4s37LIscch2PRfYZK0YW2CB6uCaHz1rPKfhY1MNRoHugDW5dYJxVD6TPQCdx5JGL_nQC-xFru5IpXccvM2XkH7ONxQgiSgPZJOSQTqtGttB89G0aw5pweH_EO0uvWNR2qJ2G_h9d6dLA6Ss2L0w/s320/505548B9-ADF7-43DD-A258-0F9CCF9FAF84.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>The characters were talking about the various Smedrys being different and the kids immediately had opinions (they've already become attached to the characters even though we're only part-way through the first book of the series).<div><br /></div><div>7YO: “Yeah, but Sing Sing Smedry isn’t as crazy.”<div><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">8YO: “…as Grandpa Smedry!”</span><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">When Bastille pulled her sword from her handbag the kids could immediately relate.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">7YO: “That’s magic it couldn’t have fit in her purse. Purses are too tiny.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “That must have been a magic sword or a magic purse. Like Mary Poppins!”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_nW2NJRTG6CGZlzklNafN4q4szcgIFvq-CxdXRPCejsJiFxKKoC00LpmnBSO44CGvCMcy7ry12whLSsLL45imBC03-uwKxStAZG9acVcaeXrLMCRZGUA9lRCNicKJGVQMy4Mlypp3M0WyoeKSSbQpQPh7-VS_kSbM4R9upTNaGt3ZWTdGfg/s4032/59DA8FC6-7047-4A94-938F-8DA963A8C278.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_nW2NJRTG6CGZlzklNafN4q4szcgIFvq-CxdXRPCejsJiFxKKoC00LpmnBSO44CGvCMcy7ry12whLSsLL45imBC03-uwKxStAZG9acVcaeXrLMCRZGUA9lRCNicKJGVQMy4Mlypp3M0WyoeKSSbQpQPh7-VS_kSbM4R9upTNaGt3ZWTdGfg/w640-h480/59DA8FC6-7047-4A94-938F-8DA963A8C278.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">At one point the narrator made reference to a bad literary technique of interrupting an action scene with unnecessary explanations, just like he’d done in chapter fourteen.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “I don’t remember that.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Me: “What chapter are we reading?”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “Fourteen! </span><span class="s2">😂😂😂</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"> That’s funny!”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">7YO (deadpan): “That’s hilarious.”</span></p></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">(c) 2004-2018 The Wolff's Tale. Please read responsibly -- don't read and drive!</div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05994659431007272552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498980.post-52115241052192290372022-05-09T19:52:00.002-04:002022-05-09T19:52:53.588-04:00Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians - Chapter 13<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIMFevJymdkC8Mc0PB8NItICWF_CKj-jEjjQGA4FNZruFxas2yTwsevkBg9OFqXgj7OWjb5DpVnJbcZ8P8Vigyd7TSxpkZfHOKe_PvBraq8NKaHD8okAJ0p0mj1kZbUzSa2XSPgc03wZKlh32Z8mmyVr2IJ3G5VXEVdLWv4cmps4KjOBr5Kg/s4032/9FE85172-D6D8-4640-AEBD-04F3E63CFFD9.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIMFevJymdkC8Mc0PB8NItICWF_CKj-jEjjQGA4FNZruFxas2yTwsevkBg9OFqXgj7OWjb5DpVnJbcZ8P8Vigyd7TSxpkZfHOKe_PvBraq8NKaHD8okAJ0p0mj1kZbUzSa2XSPgc03wZKlh32Z8mmyVr2IJ3G5VXEVdLWv4cmps4KjOBr5Kg/s320/9FE85172-D6D8-4640-AEBD-04F3E63CFFD9.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>While the characters were starting their third chapter in prison (and the author was talking about things like book time—one sentence can describe years of duration) the kids realized there was one character still on the loose.<p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “There’s one Smedry we haven’t heard about [in prison].”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">7YO: “Dad, is there one more Smedry? That was introduced with Sing.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “There’s still one Smedry on the loose. At least there’s one Smedry that I think is still on the loose. Dad, have you noticed there is one Smedry they haven’t mentioned yet?”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">When the characters managed to escape by getting the guard angry by throwing things at him and then disarming him when he got close to the cell the oldest kid had her own hypothesis to propose.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “Can I tell you what I thought they were doing? I thought they were trying to throw something at him to knock him out. I’ve heard that in stories, hitting someone on the head to make them unconscious.”</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">(c) 2004-2018 The Wolff's Tale. Please read responsibly -- don't read and drive!</div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05994659431007272552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498980.post-26877785227912358632022-05-08T18:44:00.005-04:002022-05-08T20:03:56.307-04:00Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians - Chapter 12<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggKCtB6-4MUxJHwD-XEV7r9_sybguYVZwFxyCT2aFWns7FnbGsHvxrI2h5BkDRPyDrf0fvhqoMd7O7oqCTtS2lxhKxR8Alz8Yji2k1ho-oWHhEuIOwOV1PFl9Ub5Rsktmtlj_dZ26NRN7CprkdSeKYNqjad73Ns4PQNc01DYpnqkZc1xpnbw/s2100/CD20E28D-2D20-4FA8-8131-2226C1FEB98B.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1574" data-original-width="2100" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggKCtB6-4MUxJHwD-XEV7r9_sybguYVZwFxyCT2aFWns7FnbGsHvxrI2h5BkDRPyDrf0fvhqoMd7O7oqCTtS2lxhKxR8Alz8Yji2k1ho-oWHhEuIOwOV1PFl9Ub5Rsktmtlj_dZ26NRN7CprkdSeKYNqjad73Ns4PQNc01DYpnqkZc1xpnbw/s320/CD20E28D-2D20-4FA8-8131-2226C1FEB98B.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>Right before I read that Alcatraz said “I forgot” the eight year old predicted that he would say “I don’t know.” I think she definitely gets credit for being very close.<p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">At the end of the chapter all of them wanted me to keep going!</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “Read another!”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">7YO (chants): “Nother, nother, nother!”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Me: “No.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">7YO: “Why doesn’t it work with this book?”</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">(c) 2004-2018 The Wolff's Tale. Please read responsibly -- don't read and drive!</div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05994659431007272552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498980.post-55530693098441945082022-05-07T18:44:00.004-04:002022-05-08T20:03:33.933-04:00Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians - Chapter 11<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgryr6unovefa2BFMcePLQ3peRWZl29ys4qgRjHiCzBBZkBRniDrLvCc98jya0fCtUhlyhA7Zgs28EhdxH9iYKRCiD-RDB9KII0nJ-VBETZHmKCd8lMwx62scuCQQqXjS2VhBBDlNaz2mz3B3vLtOiWzqkrh2j-GmnVYWRhZoscike4zj8sGA/s4032/811C7A3F-46AC-4224-B523-D3C1BECA5344.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgryr6unovefa2BFMcePLQ3peRWZl29ys4qgRjHiCzBBZkBRniDrLvCc98jya0fCtUhlyhA7Zgs28EhdxH9iYKRCiD-RDB9KII0nJ-VBETZHmKCd8lMwx62scuCQQqXjS2VhBBDlNaz2mz3B3vLtOiWzqkrh2j-GmnVYWRhZoscike4zj8sGA/s320/811C7A3F-46AC-4224-B523-D3C1BECA5344.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>We meet our characters after last chapter’s cliffhanger imprisoned with just a bucket for “facilities” in their cell.<p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">7YO: “What are facilities?”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Me: “What do you think could be replaced by a bucket?”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">7YO: “Ewwww, a toilet!”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “What do librarians call themselves?”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Me: “I don’t know.”</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">(c) 2004-2018 The Wolff's Tale. Please read responsibly -- don't read and drive!</div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05994659431007272552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498980.post-83183169307515202382022-05-06T18:50:00.001-04:002022-05-06T18:50:56.695-04:00Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians - Chapter 10<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoFh7tWuez000vJloQ8F64QwDvswJ3enXSGZYWeYaX73KQcPYvlkcRAI0qhbRmazpF0q2Vb1fm3R9T2RBrjGrSu3lROVmUF_k3OUdcTUOWfOZOJDrxwSimmzBpF7YgCPyicN3gX2M4RuiN8YR9PbISvATOrKyamPCJhHHWlTibfTV7Tkg4sg/s4032/F7AD687E-1ECC-4D35-BE3D-4A7F97B2C9A6.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoFh7tWuez000vJloQ8F64QwDvswJ3enXSGZYWeYaX73KQcPYvlkcRAI0qhbRmazpF0q2Vb1fm3R9T2RBrjGrSu3lROVmUF_k3OUdcTUOWfOZOJDrxwSimmzBpF7YgCPyicN3gX2M4RuiN8YR9PbISvATOrKyamPCJhHHWlTibfTV7Tkg4sg/s320/F7AD687E-1ECC-4D35-BE3D-4A7F97B2C9A6.jpeg" width="320" /></a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">While carrying a duffel of guns Sing mentions that ancient weapons are heavy, the kids objected, obviously having missed some of the discussion of technological reverses (e.g. Free Kingdomers claiming swords are more advanced than Hushlander firearms)</span><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “They’re not ancient. They’re new weapons. Swords are ancient.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">7YO: “They probably think they are ancient!”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">4YO: “[7YO] you look like you are a weapon!”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">When Alcatraz realized one set of footprints hadn’t faded and thus was likely someone he knew the eight year old guessed which character it was.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “Maybe its Ms. Fletcher. He has seen her for a long time.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">7YO: “Probably Ms. Fletcher is trying to get Alcatraz further and further away from the Sands of Rashid.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Then the eight year old wondered about Alcatraz’s own unfading footprints.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “Why are his staying a long time?”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Me: “Do you know yourself?”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “Yeah. Oh right. He’s known himself a long time.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0zfnEc3FVNz7vWoEEFKGzI1BZCOezM6GEJVXar8AHKZAT2WC-k-h3476HO6ksxhd6fJAWw1taRQm5ZjrrtnICGUFyLy03B1MVYqcufYMZA9yQlvrIPBGUpwW-RZLb83MUf4LxnXDhguJPGcC_VY3pRX3avSlANssJ79y3wFga7PEBx-KMDw/s4032/4466CA84-DC09-40BB-98D9-CEA6BCCA19C0.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0zfnEc3FVNz7vWoEEFKGzI1BZCOezM6GEJVXar8AHKZAT2WC-k-h3476HO6ksxhd6fJAWw1taRQm5ZjrrtnICGUFyLy03B1MVYqcufYMZA9yQlvrIPBGUpwW-RZLb83MUf4LxnXDhguJPGcC_VY3pRX3avSlANssJ79y3wFga7PEBx-KMDw/w640-h480/4466CA84-DC09-40BB-98D9-CEA6BCCA19C0.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">7YO: “Ahhh, he’s scary!! I hope Sing doesn’t trip on Blackburn’s head.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">4YO: “He really is scary!”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">At the end of the chapter the eight year old was frustrated by another cliffhanger. She really wanted to keep reading.</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">(c) 2004-2018 The Wolff's Tale. Please read responsibly -- don't read and drive!</div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05994659431007272552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498980.post-59639470075726825642022-05-05T18:43:00.013-04:002022-05-06T18:49:53.100-04:00Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians - Chapter 09<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA2TIMgxNVcFkY2EV9GSLx3NSilNLrmTREsX-hUEXu3yn84jP0EqorUkyPKjpnf7LUeOv76YIFr-GjbYweN3izqw310wcPEI5quBq_ZN4f6hRCbAHLUpgJEzmIf4i97rKDOu8J8_vg8Uj0LISkcfsL7jQbEJyuStXJ5al3_cBlG7nJLI4IUw/s4032/0F4A1A75-A9C6-4254-A10F-5DB72D35BDDD.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA2TIMgxNVcFkY2EV9GSLx3NSilNLrmTREsX-hUEXu3yn84jP0EqorUkyPKjpnf7LUeOv76YIFr-GjbYweN3izqw310wcPEI5quBq_ZN4f6hRCbAHLUpgJEzmIf4i97rKDOu8J8_vg8Uj0LISkcfsL7jQbEJyuStXJ5al3_cBlG7nJLI4IUw/s320/0F4A1A75-A9C6-4254-A10F-5DB72D35BDDD.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br />The book referenced that talking dinosaurs had been mentioned before and included the reference in a bit of self-referential humor.<div><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;">8YO: “Page 73? What does that mean?”</span><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “Are they good or bad dinosaurs?”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Me: “Why do you think everyone can be classified as just good or bad?”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “This is like Redwall a good side and a bad side.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “Oh I love this, he is talking to dinosaurs!”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “They should set them free!”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">4YO: “No.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">7YO: </span><span class="s2">😱</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"> “Are they from the Free Kingdoms?”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqKmCtap_3l8Sn0Dsdx3XpfwBxY8kXd6XlXNyicUE-MypHTGDhxG-8Osxvdi2UVeh6pjegN9DHzaGVS2iK9GaOV6BEFJsKJMf_h4Xv6cDmkWld2BL8cBWW4a7OqiSHsWUFkI-uEJ7xgej6bRJ0XYkv-8WlQRSf9v9kaPAR0nN_WSF7YloJPQ/s4032/54611DE5-A4A8-4FFA-8359-72F115527CA9.jpeg" style="clear: left; 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font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p>At the very end of the chapter Alcatraz heads down the hall following burning black footprints and the seven year old guessed why.</span><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">7YO: “Because of the footprints? </span><span class="s2">😱😱</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"> Are they the Dark Oculators?”</span></p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">(c) 2004-2018 The Wolff's Tale. Please read responsibly -- don't read and drive!</div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05994659431007272552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498980.post-86135695980151069302022-05-04T19:38:00.000-04:002022-05-04T19:38:10.289-04:00Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians - Chapter 08<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9fas3Bpa5d0Vg7cPOyb-IPsJa-opL01A2SX620lnPt6rz5PHgk5Qjk30hUldYWBkVCevUCHBR7ecmh8Vq0-boiaCi32JNwYLsz-168wrlaY7W-jJv3-FsIjIsMPVmCh8f99RL4-a5guk1q6J_KKxBieDFW8CUauB6B3qZKcPh5q2Pg3RA0Q/s4032/9C3DF743-C9A3-4A31-B21A-BFB0678893D3.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9fas3Bpa5d0Vg7cPOyb-IPsJa-opL01A2SX620lnPt6rz5PHgk5Qjk30hUldYWBkVCevUCHBR7ecmh8Vq0-boiaCi32JNwYLsz-168wrlaY7W-jJv3-FsIjIsMPVmCh8f99RL4-a5guk1q6J_KKxBieDFW8CUauB6B3qZKcPh5q2Pg3RA0Q/s320/9C3DF743-C9A3-4A31-B21A-BFB0678893D3.jpeg" width="320" /></a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"></span></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">In this chapter Alcatraz discovered that much of what he thought about global geography isn’t true and that there are three secret continents!</span><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “It would have been four before they lost Australia.” (It was revealed last chapter that Australia is a recent Librarian conquest that has been added to the Hushlands not that long ago.)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I actually spoiled this surprise a bit as I showed the kids the map included with the book back when I first started reading the book. This gorgeous piece is actually printed on the inside of the dust jacket. I love that it is here since you don't lose any detail to the spine of the book as you would if it were printed on a spread inside of the book. I also really like it as it was only first available with this edition of the book--not the original Scholastic editions that I first read, and I presume while it may be included in the new paperbacks it obviously can't be as nice as those books lack a dust jacket.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9aLPGuJyHiseiKHIQRoG1qvn7wAs9hOqe49dcabNmOZ8N-ZOMU_4v-OJYnqWsQnv2wBcNJ129BaQUpM16qAKBwNQ1Q5GQoX2wa04qGY7r9I0zu9GKIP5BzbhA1i6DngFswEDgGrfzJPVIvdSVqy8rE9Q0A1CPwPs6Nylxc1NVguVjlZ11Lg/s4032/45AC69F9-8352-4C94-BB1F-CD05486A31BC.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9aLPGuJyHiseiKHIQRoG1qvn7wAs9hOqe49dcabNmOZ8N-ZOMU_4v-OJYnqWsQnv2wBcNJ129BaQUpM16qAKBwNQ1Q5GQoX2wa04qGY7r9I0zu9GKIP5BzbhA1i6DngFswEDgGrfzJPVIvdSVqy8rE9Q0A1CPwPs6Nylxc1NVguVjlZ11Lg/w640-h480/45AC69F9-8352-4C94-BB1F-CD05486A31BC.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Somehow while infiltrating a library Alcatraz broke a carpet.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “What? He broke the… </span><span class="s2">😂😂😂</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">4YO: “He’s a breaker. He’s a breaker [6YO].”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">6YO: “[4YO] might secretly be a Smedry and his power is being annoying.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">4YO: “I don’t have power!”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">At the very end of the chapter (these books delight in cliffhanger endings to chapters) Alcatraz opens a door to discover living dinosaurs inside.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “YES! Talking dinosaurs? I hope they are.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">4YO: “Dinosaurs eat people.”</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">(c) 2004-2018 The Wolff's Tale. Please read responsibly -- don't read and drive!</div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05994659431007272552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498980.post-66902185373289934892022-05-03T20:07:00.001-04:002022-05-03T20:07:29.125-04:00Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians - Chapter 07<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOTz0O-5Td6QV2S0t76SeKQX9YX0Wp1HpEEuVxCREY_IUu1TcMd0ckaSuOWwsLKzmDXnIvjAQ3TJLpNqm4z6l3nY8nMz3l6LRzf3SX83E6GwRCuxZLkLbmTVqXbJwj8GkzpaVJ5k0JEX_L1JKMA2jao80lcmRh-RRKxdAh-s4iL3dyaFrG4A/s2100/589F1039-CCB5-44A4-8319-C34561C0FA62.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1574" data-original-width="2100" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOTz0O-5Td6QV2S0t76SeKQX9YX0Wp1HpEEuVxCREY_IUu1TcMd0ckaSuOWwsLKzmDXnIvjAQ3TJLpNqm4z6l3nY8nMz3l6LRzf3SX83E6GwRCuxZLkLbmTVqXbJwj8GkzpaVJ5k0JEX_L1JKMA2jao80lcmRh-RRKxdAh-s4iL3dyaFrG4A/w321-h240/589F1039-CCB5-44A4-8319-C34561C0FA62.jpeg" width="321" /></a></div>When I read the passage highlighted at the left from Bastille the eight year old got a gleam in her eyes as she understood. Sarcasm is something she's only started to understand recently.<div>8YO: “Oh I get it, she is using sarcasm, isn’t she? She’s saying the exact opposite of what she wants to say, shut up guys. That’s the shortest way I could put it.”<p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Once again Alcatraz rhetorically asked if he had mentioned that he not a good person. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">“Yes,” the eight year old replied proving she had definitely been paying attention to the narrator’s prior gloomy pronouncements. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The book mentioned Bastille’s platform sandals and the kids were curious.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “What does it mean platform sandals? The sandals have a platform?”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Me: “What do you think that means? What is a platform?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “Something that you stand on. So she’s standing on her sandals.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Me: “A platform is higher than the ground. So platform sandals are higher than flat sandals.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">6YO: “You mean like this?” Places foot with toes flat and heel raised.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “No that’s heels.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFxEJEm1UhCFJaLuc6490Ox9eWjqxIeVfxTpti_vZTcD1LGpjYfa7YMqbiP40Yc-1uhFOGuqeXKcxeENn_gICp0hECCh4hteUYZmjUYDaIM9Ps_KYlypmvdvinAX0cgT45JXO3RmIkhUCipOjXmoh0TygFjl5Vx6vuQnNmXjoY3l2n-BTS6Q/s4032/06A526AB-A459-42A7-BEDD-1032DD7910C2.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFxEJEm1UhCFJaLuc6490Ox9eWjqxIeVfxTpti_vZTcD1LGpjYfa7YMqbiP40Yc-1uhFOGuqeXKcxeENn_gICp0hECCh4hteUYZmjUYDaIM9Ps_KYlypmvdvinAX0cgT45JXO3RmIkhUCipOjXmoh0TygFjl5Vx6vuQnNmXjoY3l2n-BTS6Q/w640-h480/06A526AB-A459-42A7-BEDD-1032DD7910C2.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Me: “Tomorrow is chapter eight.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">4YO: “Will there be pictures in chapter eight?”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Me: “Yes.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">4YO: “Yay, there will be pictures in chapter eight [6YO]!”</span></p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">(c) 2004-2018 The Wolff's Tale. Please read responsibly -- don't read and drive!</div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05994659431007272552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498980.post-20389099356372707492022-05-02T19:28:00.000-04:002022-05-02T19:28:18.597-04:00Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians - Chapter 06<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgorOAeCm8p8ven9sjrxTr2_znILeH_0T7sJq7dvUOHB4YHNB9nM_7uADo897lo6h_lsCs3tTSBSTyqiF6H3PmsQUFOP7NnH8fJufpvf4X9TKKsunBV4JZyQNwIyo7kJYIg0Z5EeS-KXq6kfTu09P3nk4ya68aVxARMuY0wqMGfz37-g2pm9Q/s2100/DE2D8053-1A54-4FF4-B682-08D9A95F3117.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1574" data-original-width="2100" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgorOAeCm8p8ven9sjrxTr2_znILeH_0T7sJq7dvUOHB4YHNB9nM_7uADo897lo6h_lsCs3tTSBSTyqiF6H3PmsQUFOP7NnH8fJufpvf4X9TKKsunBV4JZyQNwIyo7kJYIg0Z5EeS-KXq6kfTu09P3nk4ya68aVxARMuY0wqMGfz37-g2pm9Q/s320/DE2D8053-1A54-4FF4-B682-08D9A95F3117.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-size-adjust: auto;">“…the Scrivener’s Bones…”</span><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">6YO: “Bu…bu…bu…bones? What does that mean?”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">4YO: “Skeleton!”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">6YO: “Eek!”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">(Note The Scrivener’s Bones is actually the name of the next book in the series)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">One of the kids asked about the name of one of the characters, thinking Sing-Sing was a strange name. I explained that not only did Alcatraz share a name with a prison but so did other characters: Leavenworth, (San) Quentin, Attica, Bastille.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">At one point Alcatraz mentioned that he didn’t have control of his Talent for breaking things, and that got the kids thinking about a hypothesis.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “When he wanted it to break it didn’t. So it’s doing the exact opposite of what he wants!”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">6YO: “If someone throws a brick at him he can think “please, please don’t break!”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">While I was reading the four year old drew a picture that he said was Grandpa Smedry.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhszSX1nBFMQ7kcGzPGgOCOqQT14_1lbo3CY-RjZUmZ8kCETSmyQkTciCJZI0Xr0IJz1DEpl5hWd4HHW6xOEeTEy2oqKCZX45Sd-Uv2Na0vyinTT71RBo98oEc5TKFvEVsYNH4OvG6eLYQ7JT98CI194ddspn-eeDCCevXk7Rz0isovVEvUTw/s4032/D32D4577-79B1-403D-AC49-8A7688039356.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhszSX1nBFMQ7kcGzPGgOCOqQT14_1lbo3CY-RjZUmZ8kCETSmyQkTciCJZI0Xr0IJz1DEpl5hWd4HHW6xOEeTEy2oqKCZX45Sd-Uv2Na0vyinTT71RBo98oEc5TKFvEVsYNH4OvG6eLYQ7JT98CI194ddspn-eeDCCevXk7Rz0isovVEvUTw/w640-h480/D32D4577-79B1-403D-AC49-8A7688039356.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">6YO: “Dad, can Alcatraz break hats?”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Then Grandpa Smedry gave some more information about the separation of the world into the Free Kingdoms and the Hushlands, stating that Australia had only been recently lost to the Librarians along with some of the islands of Mokia. I then showed them the islands of Mokia, including just southeast of Hawaii the Bigger Island and Biggest Island. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2NAMZokpc94AIxKqs63j7300Bd2olx_DCic3XPEzUlRJm2A66YuIJvRBcyyYUepgP_V8ZnuLu2A4vvED9mjAyah4W1U4aDy76hJxYiE9wzS8z0aRZMHtg9fCuMcN6B72oy_MS8oVCwp-p4JPZJ9Nr0WHSTTyKxkzw5M_3rBRkjckyie0cLA/s4032/61BC6B78-D0D8-4E72-A5B7-97D8D71C4257.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2NAMZokpc94AIxKqs63j7300Bd2olx_DCic3XPEzUlRJm2A66YuIJvRBcyyYUepgP_V8ZnuLu2A4vvED9mjAyah4W1U4aDy76hJxYiE9wzS8z0aRZMHtg9fCuMcN6B72oy_MS8oVCwp-p4JPZJ9Nr0WHSTTyKxkzw5M_3rBRkjckyie0cLA/w640-h480/61BC6B78-D0D8-4E72-A5B7-97D8D71C4257.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">(c) 2004-2018 The Wolff's Tale. Please read responsibly -- don't read and drive!</div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05994659431007272552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498980.post-31178023560101468432022-05-01T19:37:00.001-04:002022-05-01T19:37:11.165-04:00The Hobbit (1977) Movie Reaction<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKxLX_oGxXWHWS75R_xhoantxHVpbyl-xI4vPBRQBwfayDE8HNsb0Fg67ngKGd9h_KYL1ztw84_GSOeJY3BiPPCnTDRyrvPEqyPS_Ivm65eErlFVEU808zGi0YL2ChOQ_F9ATGSHg6u5aAQpc5Nr6QMECjEVxmZN__Eef04x_xPfcp_GYuBA/s2560/74513B4C-D01F-4C85-9F0D-A5881BB87394.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2560" data-original-width="1802" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKxLX_oGxXWHWS75R_xhoantxHVpbyl-xI4vPBRQBwfayDE8HNsb0Fg67ngKGd9h_KYL1ztw84_GSOeJY3BiPPCnTDRyrvPEqyPS_Ivm65eErlFVEU808zGi0YL2ChOQ_F9ATGSHg6u5aAQpc5Nr6QMECjEVxmZN__Eef04x_xPfcp_GYuBA/s320/74513B4C-D01F-4C85-9F0D-A5881BB87394.jpeg" width="225" /></a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-size-adjust: auto;">Tonight we watched the 1977 animated movie The Hobbit and the kids had some reactions as we watched it.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I asked if the kids recognized the map of Eriador on screen at the very start and they did.</div></span></div><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">4YO: “It has the Misty Mountains!”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">*camping in the rain*</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “What about Rivendell?”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Dwarves: “Trolls!”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “Oops.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">When Elrond looked at Orchrist and Glamdring I asked if they remembered where they were made.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “Yes. Where Ungoliant was…”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Me: “The hidden city of…”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">6YO: “Gondolin!!”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">When the goblins called Orchrist and Glamdring by their elven names there was an objection!</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “No, they didn’t call them the real names, they called them their names!”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Me: “Do you remember their names for the swords?”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “Beater and Biter are what the goblins called them.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">6YO: “Goblins are scary!”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Bilbo: “What’s this?”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Me: “What is that?”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “A ring. THE ring.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">As the riddle contest is about to start I heard, “Daddy, [it is] Gollum!” from the four year old.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Before Gollum finished asking one riddle the eight year old piped up with the solution, “that one’s time!”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">My wife came to join us and the four year old told her “Gollum has precious.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">As Gollum paddles off at the end of the contest. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “Doesn’t he guess it (three guesses first)?”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Gollum: “It knows the way in, it must know the way out.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “I love this, he actually leads his way to it.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">When Bilbo was telling Gandalf and the dwarves of his escape the four year old had to point out his favorite character: “Mommy, that’s Gandalf! There’s Gandalf in dis!”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">*eagles set down party down at the edge of Mirkwood*</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “Didn’t they drop them at the Carrock?”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Me: “Yep.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “What about Beorn? What about Beorn? Did they skip Beorn?”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">*dwarves walk through Mirkwood*</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">4YO: “I think dem are tired.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">My wife: “Would you be tired?”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">4YO: “Yeah.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">*Bilbo climbs above the Mirkwood canopy*</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">4YO: “Sixty-hundred butterflies! Sixty-hundred. See there is! Sixty-hundred!”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">After Bilbo woke up with a spider attacking him one noticed an issue.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “They skipped the lights where they saw the feast!”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">*watching invisible Bilbo walk around*</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">6YO: “I think why you see him faintly so you can see where he goes.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Bilbo (barrel rider): “Oh stop complaining, I never promised you first class accommodations.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “Is he talking to himself?”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Me: “Who’s in the barrel?”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “Wasn’t the barrel he was on empty in the book?”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Bilbo: “Smaug…” (pronounced like smog”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “It’s Smaug!” (Pronouncing ‘ow’ as in ‘now.’)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Smaug (to Bilbo): “You have nice manners for a thief and a liar.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO (indignant): “He’s the big thief!”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">*Smaug throws temper tantrum atop hoard*</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “Does it show the big bare spot he has?”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">*view of Lake-town just before Smaug attacks*</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “I thought you couldn’t see the end of the Long Lake.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “How long do dragons live?”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Me: “A very long time.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “As long as dwarves?”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Me: “Longer.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Once Smaug died I joked “That’s it, the end.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “No it isn’t. There’s still the Battle of Five Armies!”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">*Bilbo leads dwarves to the entrance of the Lonely Mountain*</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “What about his armor thing?”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Me: “His Mithril coat?”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “Yes, his Mithril coat.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">*Bard and Thranduil walk off*</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “Where is the Arkenstone? When does he give up the Arkenstone?”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Bilbo: “A battle of three armies?”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">6YO: “The orcs arrive and then the eagles!”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQhGwF_QBMS4TRjZ59OYAwQgyAjsIKfHb376s6I4n3TJl_CcgMDrdkQ5ujO_ZY6-NEth4ozpSljAtQHFDg8k0dXoWxEGAhW2UsnBgr_KtgY3DiW4qBvfVwp4hUAHy_bqUz5VzGSShEmE1mVye4hlKiMWZbry2JeEMIh12x6zSoLuuD8WiCUQ/s667/Thranduil%20(1977).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="667" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQhGwF_QBMS4TRjZ59OYAwQgyAjsIKfHb376s6I4n3TJl_CcgMDrdkQ5ujO_ZY6-NEth4ozpSljAtQHFDg8k0dXoWxEGAhW2UsnBgr_KtgY3DiW4qBvfVwp4hUAHy_bqUz5VzGSShEmE1mVye4hlKiMWZbry2JeEMIh12x6zSoLuuD8WiCUQ/w400-h300/Thranduil%20(1977).jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br />*close up on Thranduil*</span><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “That’s not how I draw elves. I draw elves as people with tall ears.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “What about his Mithril coat?”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Bard: “The eagles.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “Yes the eagles. The battles of five armies. Everybody hates goblins. All the good guys hate goblins. I hope more goblins died than the rest of the people.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">After the battle Gandalf said that only seven of thirteen lived and soon it would be six.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “I thought it was ten…. What about the Arkenstone? I thought it was ten that survived. What about the Arkenstone? When are we going to see that?”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Gandalf: “Smaug is gone…”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “It’s Smaug!”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">*closeup on Bag End*</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “When’s the auction?”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">*ring gleams on Bilbo’s mantle*</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “It’s the One!”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “It’s not as good as Lord of the Rings. It had lots of mistakes. It was missing stuff.”</span></p><p><br /> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer">(c) 2004-2018 The Wolff's Tale. Please read responsibly -- don't read and drive!</div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05994659431007272552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498980.post-41253747494813528252022-05-01T17:36:00.001-04:002022-05-01T17:36:09.920-04:00Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians - Chapter 05<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghqUbqPB4ysigImuupild46ZUVbSxEXeMdZnfeHiAw7LjxUpOlMNMVCeqma8muRxv8Xl0DfQmC8i3rg2dWKjM1SBupaYDqd4dkYRYrQ2vsjosfrxXm0RtWbJAI3FOHcBk5HNiaSsEyCgZ0SbDadyoxmceyn7FzTDolWuxc5kjUqe1QI75Dag/s4032/ADD800FD-BE3A-4B5F-9DD3-096DE040D02E.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghqUbqPB4ysigImuupild46ZUVbSxEXeMdZnfeHiAw7LjxUpOlMNMVCeqma8muRxv8Xl0DfQmC8i3rg2dWKjM1SBupaYDqd4dkYRYrQ2vsjosfrxXm0RtWbJAI3FOHcBk5HNiaSsEyCgZ0SbDadyoxmceyn7FzTDolWuxc5kjUqe1QI75Dag/s320/ADD800FD-BE3A-4B5F-9DD3-096DE040D02E.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>At one point Alcatraz mentions that the second most frightening experience of his life involved an elevator and a mime. The kids were confused.<div><br /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-size-adjust: auto;">6YO: “What’s a mime?”</span><div><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Me: “Someone that doesn’t talk and only makes motions.”</span></div><div><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The actual dictionary definition is "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;">the theatrical technique of suggesting action, character, or emotion without words, using only gesture, expression, and movement." So I don't think I did too bad on the spur of the moment. As they were still confused </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I realized that somehow they'd never heard about mimes before. I'm not sure how that happened, I thought they were used in shows everywhere, even if only as jokes.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I later showed them the following video so that they’d know what a mime does and they asked me if the box/room he was stuck in was real.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="466" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MP4A3cLuBP0" width="561" youtube-src-id="MP4A3cLuBP0"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">When the characters approached the library the book featured this illustration that I showed to everyone.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR3L4QyqTnDY1AGQZq5qHH9I5PCTnp8-ZxvL3T6nyjzM0pkcMdva4lbBIqe1pXdn5P0m2YPo9iwO1Y6cH4phukFbpkYwVDR0AOdyuZZ6pixIeaUfkz-BOMFs2nagHbTN5P1PQ6gWPjXfNkQAmBTDQquO2fPlGKb4iQ_q4WfAXy2VOuZ2o-KA/s4032/50DD483E-DFB6-4A4B-AFDF-7C4532E45F79.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR3L4QyqTnDY1AGQZq5qHH9I5PCTnp8-ZxvL3T6nyjzM0pkcMdva4lbBIqe1pXdn5P0m2YPo9iwO1Y6cH4phukFbpkYwVDR0AOdyuZZ6pixIeaUfkz-BOMFs2nagHbTN5P1PQ6gWPjXfNkQAmBTDQquO2fPlGKb4iQ_q4WfAXy2VOuZ2o-KA/w640-h480/50DD483E-DFB6-4A4B-AFDF-7C4532E45F79.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">6YO: “That doesn’t look like… That’s not a library. It’s too scary!”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Can you tell we frequently go to normal libraries?</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Me (reading): “Rutabaga.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">6YO: “Why does it keep saying rutabaga? What does it mean?”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “Daddy, why does it keep saying rutabaga?”</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Me: </span><span class="s2">🤷♂️</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">You can read Sanderson’s <a href="https://wob.coppermind.net/events/416-alcatraz-annotations/" target="_blank">notations on the book here</a>, where he notes that Rutabaga is his favorite joke.</span></p></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">(c) 2004-2018 The Wolff's Tale. Please read responsibly -- don't read and drive!</div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05994659431007272552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498980.post-67195531639381004262022-04-30T19:00:00.020-04:002022-05-01T13:38:00.460-04:00Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians - Chapter 04<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiUGYrmXgCA4VRtiATXkjRykCeohgeXmcCuehZitFzftcAZRpWOVj_CWTIYwfdBc33nVDSj5w3W4m0WokzN91nm-fJDBu5vi2az4lpAmFq5k1blzt4WH7yGL6pWFkfrcm-SiHE5aBt6j8AVnPE-6yZvQTM3O084lQTiqZcLPY8AnUacMavQQ/s4032/8579CC4E-A41E-4C7A-8AD7-D31D7B57BE0B.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiUGYrmXgCA4VRtiATXkjRykCeohgeXmcCuehZitFzftcAZRpWOVj_CWTIYwfdBc33nVDSj5w3W4m0WokzN91nm-fJDBu5vi2az4lpAmFq5k1blzt4WH7yGL6pWFkfrcm-SiHE5aBt6j8AVnPE-6yZvQTM3O084lQTiqZcLPY8AnUacMavQQ/w319-h240/8579CC4E-A41E-4C7A-8AD7-D31D7B57BE0B.jpeg" width="319" /></a></div>I read chapter four of Alcatraz vs the Evil Librarians today and the eight year old really appreciated multiple jokes. While I appreciate the jokes it is fun to read to someone else who is enjoying them also (especially since Sanderson packs in so many).<p></p><p>At one point the characters talk about some people disguised as potted plants who tried to infiltrate a bank and…got watered.</p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “I got it. I got it!” And later she said “They got watered! </span><span class="s2">😂</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"> They got soaking wet.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">We also get to appreciate Grandpa Smedry’s Talent this chapter. At first nobody gets why being late is special, then Alcatraz watches someone shoot at him and watches his grandfather arrive late to each shot—so they all missed.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">He’s always late. He’s usually late. He said his talent was being late!”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Lastly the translations between worlds are a great enjoyment for the kids as they understand our world well and find people trying to fit in (but failing) hilarious. Grandpa Smedry offers Alcatraz a “sand-burger.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"> It’s not a sand burger, it’s called a sandwich. It’s called a plain old burger or a sandwich.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">(c) 2004-2018 The Wolff's Tale. Please read responsibly -- don't read and drive!</div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05994659431007272552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498980.post-18384444412233377282022-04-29T19:19:00.004-04:002022-05-01T17:36:47.237-04:00Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians - Chapter 03<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCwCjT58Dwkow_YT86mP-doH9vSW0BzRGLcq84LD9phS0JvDcrvrDlL3vu1QQPjwqD9PFboMC-XZW1hUu7ScnK4E5ziIYCi4CqziI-7iPkf8uxWT_f7If904WLQYOq0arq0Mc4XttXEdIs0nGZUrPMt3ex3GC7-pv5OFKFA7Dm1hvUlI1iOQ/s4032/68CA0E8F-ECB6-4CB9-858F-62AD40C3F5F0.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCwCjT58Dwkow_YT86mP-doH9vSW0BzRGLcq84LD9phS0JvDcrvrDlL3vu1QQPjwqD9PFboMC-XZW1hUu7ScnK4E5ziIYCi4CqziI-7iPkf8uxWT_f7If904WLQYOq0arq0Mc4XttXEdIs0nGZUrPMt3ex3GC7-pv5OFKFA7Dm1hvUlI1iOQ/s320/68CA0E8F-ECB6-4CB9-858F-62AD40C3F5F0.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>The eight year old thought it hilarious when a car came though the wall.<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"> </span><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">At one point Alcatraz says that he hates wearing tunics and thinks they look ridiculous. The six year old had a different opinion when she looked at the illustration.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">6YO: “He looks good!”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Later on they encounter a book filled with mysterious scribbles that Grandpa Smedry insists are an unknown language.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">6YO: “Dad, do you mean like the scribbles we make? Up and down!” *waves hands*</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Well once again I think the pacing is great as they were begging for another chapter at the end of this one.</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">(c) 2004-2018 The Wolff's Tale. Please read responsibly -- don't read and drive!</div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05994659431007272552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498980.post-25356573051527908862022-04-28T19:56:00.004-04:002022-05-01T17:36:29.392-04:00Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians - Chapter 02<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 14px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinXLGiQ_J-keReYv4TvAT-NH7jcj2R5beMo_9rmqrmmDRTEc2md-lf-nGepe3j0tt52YgwsQ6qO8AeiBZYqlL2c9HJfRz2Bf_oQtuXc5wwfof3qBtR3o7OjxGnY_CA6UFtGk6mURjcxLdouQSQgJwkhcOnVKt9Z0Y-38pI-P6llL071qFyow/s4032/A2516C3E-1EA2-41F6-B4E3-14153C9D9787.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinXLGiQ_J-keReYv4TvAT-NH7jcj2R5beMo_9rmqrmmDRTEc2md-lf-nGepe3j0tt52YgwsQ6qO8AeiBZYqlL2c9HJfRz2Bf_oQtuXc5wwfof3qBtR3o7OjxGnY_CA6UFtGk6mURjcxLdouQSQgJwkhcOnVKt9Z0Y-38pI-P6llL071qFyow/s320/A2516C3E-1EA2-41F6-B4E3-14153C9D9787.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>The narrator (Alcatraz) explained that he had been many things, including a potted plant—the kids thought that hilarious as they burst out laughing.<p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “Potted plant? That’s a silly one!”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">6YO: “That’s stupid. He’s stupid like Arthur*.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I wonder if this is also a reference to the <a href="https://chandniblogs.wordpress.com/2017/04/21/454/" target="_blank">Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy</a> where the potted plant and the whale fell out of the sky. 🤔</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">When Alcatraz’s grandfather says that Alcatraz should remember him from the day he was born the kids piped up!</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “Most people don’t remember that.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">6YO: “I can’t remember who was there when I was born. Well, Mom and dad and you [8YO] must have been.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “Just mom and dad.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">6YO: “Well mom HAD to be there.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “Technically.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Then his grandfather revealed that everyone in the family has a Talent and the eight year old guessed what was going on pretty quickly (Alcatraz breaks things). The book is nicely paced so that she is able to guess revaluations before the text spells them out.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">A bit later she interjected after processing that there was a narrator telling the story.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">8YO: “Why is it like a diary?”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I explained how a first person narration worked and once I explained she realized that she was familiar with it due to the Bunnicula series that is narrated by one of the characters. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The chapter ended on a cliffhanger and everyone wanted me to keep going, the six year old rather insistently.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">6YO: “Daddy, that’s not fair. Read more!!”</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">But I want to make sure I don’t get through the books too quickly, so I kept with just one chapter. Also while I really enjoyed reading through Tolkien it is nice to get my voice a bit of a break after those very long chapters!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">*She’s thinking of the character Arthur Shappey played by John Finnemore on the brilliant BBC radio series <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lmcxj" target="_blank">Cabin Pressure</a>. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOtoQluQRenAAxVAlIdjdB892eNgyRJwSiii54LFb_QhJbRcx08dGaRU6Lkm24ymnhrB9rJvChOqrNZLOsPc27LfGo58pod1CnVOSnO9pU70ixK1s9NmkYZqi85VdnHEoYLRlwj6rTCcWJr9ooCw35ybBy0pLu40ZeQBvoRU-WSpCCxXAVhg/s768/43CDBAFA-6D52-44BD-A55C-F4512F3CEF9A.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="768" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOtoQluQRenAAxVAlIdjdB892eNgyRJwSiii54LFb_QhJbRcx08dGaRU6Lkm24ymnhrB9rJvChOqrNZLOsPc27LfGo58pod1CnVOSnO9pU70ixK1s9NmkYZqi85VdnHEoYLRlwj6rTCcWJr9ooCw35ybBy0pLu40ZeQBvoRU-WSpCCxXAVhg/s320/43CDBAFA-6D52-44BD-A55C-F4512F3CEF9A.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">(c) 2004-2018 The Wolff's Tale. Please read responsibly -- don't read and drive!</div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05994659431007272552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498980.post-82548739785747310582022-04-27T20:12:00.001-04:002022-04-27T20:12:12.947-04:00Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians - Chapter 01<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4NSqc_4qj3RW30DfUi-HtYw3y6qS05EAYSfrJgNRPm_W6iKBDQgcXM2LfG7QedoMQkHTNWOhSEyNPhHExB2CBMjXSoPC3AiSjpZJ2d7Ga7nqOTi58EKx2I3RKaZmKekaik4QTN2xfJJoSaVyMrnSjA7iYk9L4S7AlEdjJednTvx4kbxZ5gg/s512/Alcatraz%2001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="512" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4NSqc_4qj3RW30DfUi-HtYw3y6qS05EAYSfrJgNRPm_W6iKBDQgcXM2LfG7QedoMQkHTNWOhSEyNPhHExB2CBMjXSoPC3AiSjpZJ2d7Ga7nqOTi58EKx2I3RKaZmKekaik4QTN2xfJJoSaVyMrnSjA7iYk9L4S7AlEdjJednTvx4kbxZ5gg/w400-h300/Alcatraz%2001.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tonight w<span style="background-color: white;">e started reading a new book, <a href="https://www.brandonsanderson.com/alcatraz-vs-the-evil-librarians-series/#ALCATRAZ1" target="_blank">Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians</a> by <a href="https://www.brandonsanderson.com/" target="_blank">Brandon Sanderson</a>. Well this isn't quite true, that's just what the book cover says. For more information the author section from the back flap of the dust jacket follows directly below.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">"Brandon Sanderson" is the pen name of Alcatraz Smedry. His Hushlander editor forced him to use a pseudonym since these memoirs are being published as fiction.</span></span></span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Alcatraz actually knows a person named Brandon Sanderson. That man, however, is a fantasy writer and is therefore prone to useless bouts of delusion in literary form. Alcatraz has it on good authority that Brandon Sanderson is actually illiterate and dictates his thick, overly long fantasy tomes to his potted plant, Count Duku.</span></span></span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">It is widely assumed that Brandon went made several years ago, but few people can tell because his writing is so strange anyway. He spends his time going to science fiction movies, eating popcorn and goat cheese (separately), and trying to warn people about the dangers of the Great Kitten Conspiracy.</span></span></span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">He's had his library card revoked on seventeen different occasions.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">As we read we learned about the main character's first name is Alcatraz and he presumes he was named after the prison. I reminded them that we’d seen the island of Alcatraz when we visited San Francisco last September. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHOA2ntBiqTWOBOlMAm1w25LxvAJ_xtNCP04_EZD1O7dscVsKVWrJuFuknn7vBBHvjM8ippba_hhz7hdkZMkMi1-bZQNCMB1l85s9eu9iVjbIpZ63qYmagNuywZ_f7zgul0oQ_zd_BQ5E6SQ3LFJZi5WP6lhlh5cWIaiPPE_XA0j-wxeo_Wg/s512/Alcatraz%2002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="512" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHOA2ntBiqTWOBOlMAm1w25LxvAJ_xtNCP04_EZD1O7dscVsKVWrJuFuknn7vBBHvjM8ippba_hhz7hdkZMkMi1-bZQNCMB1l85s9eu9iVjbIpZ63qYmagNuywZ_f7zgul0oQ_zd_BQ5E6SQ3LFJZi5WP6lhlh5cWIaiPPE_XA0j-wxeo_Wg/w640-h480/Alcatraz%2002.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">8YO: “I remember that.”<br /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #202124; white-space: pre-wrap;">6YO: “I was freezing!”</span></span></span></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #202124; white-space: pre-wrap;">When we learned that Alcatraz had been given a bag of sand there was some puzzlement.
8YO: “What’s so special about a bag of sand?”
4YO: “You don’t put sand in bags.”
6YO: “Yes you do!”
She ran and got a bottle of white sand I brought back from Destin, Florida to show her younger brother.
<br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #202124; white-space: pre-wrap;">Later Alcatraz revealed that he has a talent for breaking things and he lists off that he has broken plates, cameras, and chickens.
6YO: “Cracking chickens? How can people crack chickens?”
8YO: </span><img alt="😂" aria-label="😂" class="iiJ4W" data-emoji="😂" loading="lazy" src="https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/e/notoemoji/14.0/1f602/512.png=s20" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 100% 100%; border: 0px; color: #202124; display: inline-block; height: 20px; margin: 0px 2px; max-height: 20px; min-width: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translateY(-1px); vertical-align: middle; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 20px;" /><img alt="😂" aria-label="😂" class="iiJ4W" data-emoji="😂" loading="lazy" src="https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/e/notoemoji/14.0/1f602/512.png=s20" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 100% 100%; border: 0px; color: #202124; display: inline-block; height: 20px; margin: 0px 2px; max-height: 20px; min-width: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translateY(-1px); vertical-align: middle; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 20px;" /><img alt="😂" aria-label="😂" class="iiJ4W" data-emoji="😂" loading="lazy" src="https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/e/notoemoji/14.0/1f602/512.png=s20" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 100% 100%; border: 0px; color: #202124; display: inline-block; height: 20px; margin: 0px 2px; max-height: 20px; min-width: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translateY(-1px); vertical-align: middle; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 20px;" /><span style="color: #202124; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “Broke chickens!” </span><img alt="😂" aria-label="😂" class="iiJ4W" data-emoji="😂" loading="lazy" src="https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/e/notoemoji/14.0/1f602/512.png=s20" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 100% 100%; border: 0px; color: #202124; display: inline-block; height: 20px; margin: 0px 2px; max-height: 20px; min-width: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translateY(-1px); vertical-align: middle; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 20px;" /><img alt="😂" aria-label="😂" class="iiJ4W" data-emoji="😂" loading="lazy" src="https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/e/notoemoji/14.0/1f602/512.png=s20" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 100% 100%; border: 0px; color: #202124; display: inline-block; height: 20px; margin: 0px 2px; max-height: 20px; min-width: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transform: translateY(-1px); vertical-align: middle; white-space: pre-wrap; width: 20px;" /><span style="color: #202124; white-space: pre-wrap;">
6YO: “How can people break chickens?”
<br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #202124; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once Alcatraz accidentally set the kitchen on fire the eight year old wanted him to deal with it immediately!
8YO: “TURN ON THE SINK! TURN ON THE SINK!”</span></span></span></p><p>Tonight the eight year old drew several pictures and here is one of them.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDVaCO0zNVfWbW5bwuZIjzQ5TtRa8V9iXMoW7N88lisrNHEKLrD2ebv4P-wEpfyt5yyLy78nbK_AV4ULEQm3USYMq_td8ZfcFGbl6d6iofya9iv0Rt8dZZoa3Ja3StZteO7CvVJXPgP8T7SeAl-Rq2BEetq31ga56zrJcsgT5BGkWjHxm3lA/s512/Alcatraz%2003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="512" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDVaCO0zNVfWbW5bwuZIjzQ5TtRa8V9iXMoW7N88lisrNHEKLrD2ebv4P-wEpfyt5yyLy78nbK_AV4ULEQm3USYMq_td8ZfcFGbl6d6iofya9iv0Rt8dZZoa3Ja3StZteO7CvVJXPgP8T7SeAl-Rq2BEetq31ga56zrJcsgT5BGkWjHxm3lA/w640-h480/Alcatraz%2003.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">(c) 2004-2018 The Wolff's Tale. Please read responsibly -- don't read and drive!</div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05994659431007272552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498980.post-54077450585769158262022-04-26T22:01:00.000-04:002022-04-26T22:01:01.234-04:00The Hoard, The Sea-bell, and The Last Ship<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipnJBsjfzXKsAgv9_5B1jwSVvnQ_LGxA8jlF7QhUb8VOHj9tdHyn5uj8FIuz9vbuxp5DjhzfRkxrthyXUFfeEQTqBs_Uvt0-1uqF8vBH0eyTxd6ATsAt8isxPaStyHsSZMNjnL0IfumLG7VsmE55S0Ziu6kF5MWrOhLQcpoyDw7NYnzw9E-A/s2048/Tom%20Bombadil%2004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipnJBsjfzXKsAgv9_5B1jwSVvnQ_LGxA8jlF7QhUb8VOHj9tdHyn5uj8FIuz9vbuxp5DjhzfRkxrthyXUFfeEQTqBs_Uvt0-1uqF8vBH0eyTxd6ATsAt8isxPaStyHsSZMNjnL0IfumLG7VsmE55S0Ziu6kF5MWrOhLQcpoyDw7NYnzw9E-A/s320/Tom%20Bombadil%2004.jpg" width="256" /></a></div>Tonight we finished up The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, reading The Hoard, The Sea-bell, and The Last Ship. The kids were sad that our reading of Middle-earth volumes has come to an end. Though the older two did listen to the Hobbit audiobook recently and the eight year old requested to listen to the Silmarillion audiobook this afternoon, <p></p><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;"><span class="pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu" style="animation-name: none !important; display: inline-flex; font-family: inherit; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; transition-property: none !important; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"><img alt="😍" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t2/1/16/1f60d.png" style="animation-name: none !important; border: 0px; transition-property: none !important;" width="16" /></span><span class="pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu" style="animation-name: none !important; display: inline-flex; font-family: inherit; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; transition-property: none !important; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"><img alt="🥰" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tea/1/16/1f970.png" style="animation-name: none !important; border: 0px; transition-property: none !important;" width="16" /></span>.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me “Tonight is our last night of reading The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Are there only four books of Middle-earth?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">My wife explained that most of the rest of the books were fragments with notes and not complete narratives.</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">I then told them about Children of Húrin but said we wouldn’t read it until later this year.</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “I wish there was more about the history of the Shire. Or Bilbo’s childhood.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">When we got to the section of The Last Ship that talks about going back to Elvenhome she burst out.</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “VALINOR!!! Is it Valinor?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “Yes.”</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">(c) 2004-2018 The Wolff's Tale. Please read responsibly -- don't read and drive!</div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05994659431007272552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498980.post-60886308769620286752022-04-25T21:58:00.004-04:002022-04-26T21:59:33.339-04:00The Mewlips, Oliphaunt, Fastitocalon, Cat, and Shadow-bride<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwL28qNhv_e1ZR75CoGYcSG9oaQH6X2U-eLtCgW5QIjdO7m2DORdaHkopt_qplHOQx_KorQAPY0BeZ1ZMMI8UqHc1sd-P3dlajGG4BHRtrA4zhh6A9qbmCU6u2RRUSAA5KjFF9ShKHck9rKasq9GDXnjnIU9juuV27ZevpJdtfJxyB5KjVgQ/s2048/Tom%20Bombadil%2003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwL28qNhv_e1ZR75CoGYcSG9oaQH6X2U-eLtCgW5QIjdO7m2DORdaHkopt_qplHOQx_KorQAPY0BeZ1ZMMI8UqHc1sd-P3dlajGG4BHRtrA4zhh6A9qbmCU6u2RRUSAA5KjFF9ShKHck9rKasq9GDXnjnIU9juuV27ZevpJdtfJxyB5KjVgQ/w400-h300/Tom%20Bombadil%2003.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Tonight we read four poems in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil: The Mewlips, Oliphaunt, Fastitocalon, Cat, and Shadow-bride. Before we started I was asked about oliphaunts.<p></p><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Is there one on oliphaunts?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “You’ll just have to wait and find out.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">4YO: “I hope there is one on opiphaunts. [6YO] do you like oliphaunts?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “Yes.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Then the conversation turned to astronomy as we recalled the story of Arien and Tilion piloting the heavenly lights around Middle-earth.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Is there a man or a woman in the sun?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “Remember from the Silmarillion it was a woman who took the sun around. And it was a guy with the moon and he is trying to catch up with her, that’s why they’re in the sky at the same time.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “Can the woman in the sun and the guy in the moon marry?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “Maybe they could, but they had to stay separate. And I don’t think she liked him.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">The six year old was quite disturbed by the Mewlips poem, and I have to admit it would make for a scary Hobbit bedtime tale.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">When we got to Oliphaunt the kids had more questions.</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Are they on the bad guy’s side?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “They’re animals. They’re not on anybody’s side.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “Why did their eyes look evil in the battle?”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">As we read Fastitocalon about people landing unawares on a giant sea turtle the six year old guessed what was going on.</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “A ginormous turtle!”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Finally the title of Shadow-bride made a mental connection with a horse.</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “Are they related to Shadowfax?”</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">(c) 2004-2018 The Wolff's Tale. Please read responsibly -- don't read and drive!</div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05994659431007272552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498980.post-52024376185265542092022-04-24T22:00:00.008-04:002022-04-26T21:57:48.836-04:00The Return of the King Movie Reaction<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXqFWGfcnl23LoVc5aWlk7EnoTWmJc2UwidN0hwXX5_Z-avPFGM8melsMbrtMdZzYm4X3YjnDmv-nzF_egZ4L7iSSc_yTJyOLksiq9wdj2sNe-dIlkCFcsdVLoyzqMt1trx9xfLo5Hu7qajlvXf6GKaL9lZaYeqMQtWx_XnFPbcCGAL5v91g/s2048/LotR%2053.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXqFWGfcnl23LoVc5aWlk7EnoTWmJc2UwidN0hwXX5_Z-avPFGM8melsMbrtMdZzYm4X3YjnDmv-nzF_egZ4L7iSSc_yTJyOLksiq9wdj2sNe-dIlkCFcsdVLoyzqMt1trx9xfLo5Hu7qajlvXf6GKaL9lZaYeqMQtWx_XnFPbcCGAL5v91g/w300-h400/LotR%2053.jpg" width="300" /></a></div>Tonight our third family movie night in a row was Middle-earth themed with the Extended Edition of The Return of the King. While the kids didn’t say much at the start they did open up as the movie went on.<p></p><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">DVD Selection screen</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “I think that was the Red Book. Was it Dad?”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Opening scene starts (closeup of Sméagol and worm)</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “Is that Gollum what he used to be?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “What is this?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “It is when the ring is found.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “How do you know?”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Gollum: “Very close to Mordor. No safe places there.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Don’t drink from the Morgul Vale!”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">As Pippin crept towards Gandalf to take the Palantír the eight year old covered her eyes as she knew what was coming (based on the book) and didn’t want to see it. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Suddenly out of nowhere as Pippen and Gandalf take off for Minas Tirith.</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “Saruman isn’t dead!!”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Minas Tirith</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Why is there a rock coming out of the walls?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Gandalf: “Minas Tirith, city of kings.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “There isn’t a king right now.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “Aragorn will be king.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Right now there is just a steward.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Gandalf: “It’s better if you just don’t say anything Peregrin Took.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: <span class="pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu" style="animation-name: none !important; display: inline-flex; font-family: inherit; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; transition-property: none !important; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"><img alt="😂" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/td0/1/16/1f602.png" style="animation-name: none !important; border: 0px; transition-property: none !important;" width="16" /></span><span class="pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu" style="animation-name: none !important; display: inline-flex; font-family: inherit; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; transition-property: none !important; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"><img alt="😂" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/td0/1/16/1f602.png" style="animation-name: none !important; border: 0px; transition-property: none !important;" width="16" /></span></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*oliphaunt on screen*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “Those ARE elephants!”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “They’re oliphaunts.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “They’re related to elephants at least.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Gandalf: “He is the Lord of the Nazgûl.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “EEEEEEE!!! He’s the one I hate the most except Sauron.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*pilar of light from Minas Morgul pierces the clouds*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “What’s that?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: <span class="pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu" style="animation-name: none !important; display: inline-flex; font-family: inherit; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; transition-property: none !important; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"><img alt="🤷♂️" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/te5/1/16/1f937_200d_2642.png" style="animation-name: none !important; border: 0px; transition-property: none !important;" width="16" /></span> “I don’t know.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*fell beast lands*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “What’s that?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “A fell beast that the Nazgûl ride.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “What’s it called?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “A fell beast.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “I recognized one mistake very clearly. The incident at the tower.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">My wife: “What tower?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “The one at Isengard. It’s supposed to happen at the very end! It’s playing in fast motion, the story!”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Why is [Minas Morgul] glowing?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">I read the passage about it in the book and hypothesized that the glow was meant to make it look evil and different.</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Why doesn’t it look like Minas Tirith?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “They were made for different purposes.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Was one made for fighting Morgoth?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “Minas Ithil was made to keep Sauron in.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Oops, I keep getting the dark lords mixed up.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*fighting in Osgiliath begins*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Do you want to hear what I think? They should launch the orc’s boats so they can’t escape by river.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “What is that?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">My wife: “It’s a beacon.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Why did he set it on fire?”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Who’s that, wearing red?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “Éomer.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “The girl’s brother.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Gimli: “I wish I could muster a legion of dwarves, fully armed and filthy.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “I think he means they don’t have jewels. That’s just my opinion!!”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*Faramir and company ride from Osgiliath*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “I thought the people of Minas Tirith didn’t use horses.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*Frodo, Sam, and Gollum climb what looks like a cliff face*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “I thought it was actual stairs.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*Pippin talks to Faramir in Minas Tirith*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Where is Beregond?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “Beregond isn’t in the movie.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “WHAT? Beregond isn’t in the movie?!?”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*Denethor says something in the throne room*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Does he ever leave that room?”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">The eight year old complained about the women and children still being in Minas Tirith in the movie. She said even the men of Rohan put the women and children in the caves at Helm’s Deep.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*Faramir and troops leave Minas Tirith*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “Are they going towards Mordor?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “The incoming orcs.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*Denethor starts to eat*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “Is that food all for him?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">My wife: “Is that a lot of food?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “A hobbit could look at that and say it was a tiny bit.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">My wife: “A tiny bit of what?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “Breakfast!”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “What was that red stuff coming from his mouth?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Tomato juice.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*looking towards the Dimholt*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Éomer: “None who venture there return.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “Aragorn will!”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Éomer (to Éowyn): “War is the province of men.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “NO! She will go!”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “And Merry will go. That’s a good thing. She and Merry kill a Nazgûl.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli ride to the Paths of the Dead*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “Gimli’s supposed to be complaining about the horse.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “He hates horses.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “Complaining! Complaining!”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Legolas: “They promised to serve the last king of Gondor.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “No, they promised to serve Isildur. You’re wrong Legolas.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “They probably wanted it to be more dramatic.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*trolls bang on drums as Sauron’s army approaches Minas Tirith*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “How did they tame those trolls?”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*Aragon emerges from the Paths of the Dead*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “That’s not very many ships.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">My wife: “It doesn’t look very menacing.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*Faramir is dragged into the city by his horse*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Wasn’t it a Prince or something that brought him in?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “Prince Imrahil.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Yeah. Prince Imrahil.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*orc commander gives the order to attack*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “Does he just have one eye? He is ugly!”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*catapult boulder hits Minas Tirith wall that crumbles*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “That was badly built!!”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*fell beasts scream over Minas Tirith*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “What does the screaming do?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “It’s like the fear in the books.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Gandalf: “Kill the trolls!”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Or the beasts the Nazgûl are riding!”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Gandalf (to Pippin): “This is no place for a hobbit.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “They’re saying that to everyone. Merry and Pippin!”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “What is that?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “Grond, a bartering ram.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “Why is there fire in his mouth? That would kill him.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*end of disc one*</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">My wife: “Do you want to stop here?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “No! We want to see if there are more mistakes.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">My wife: “Or you could just enjoy the movie.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “You enjoy it your way, we’ll enjoy it our way.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Weren’t there more people with Aragorn?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “Yes. The Dúnedain.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “The Rangers.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">The four year old fell asleep at one point, but I made sure to wake him up before Shelob appeared. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “Is Shelob hungry for light too?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “You mean like Ungoliant?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “Yeah.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “There was a blossom on the White Tree. Men do have hope!”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*as Grond breaches the gate*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Ohh, so is the fire there so if the gate is made of wood it will burn?”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*Sam holds glowing phial up to Shelob*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Wouldn’t Ungoliant suck the light out of that glass?”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">My wife: “Frodo died.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO & 8YO: “No he didn’t!”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “He’s asleep…. He looks like a mummy.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Gorbag: “Get him to the tower.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Does that mean Barad-dur?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “No. Cirith Ungol.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*horn of Rohan blows*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Is this the battle where the Nazgûl dies?</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Was the sword made to fight against him or the Nazgûl?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “Him [meaning the Witch King of Angmar].”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “It couldn’t be a random sword.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*Rohirrim prepare to ride*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Are they going to do a pincer movement?”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Shouldn’t they [Rohirrim] attack from the back?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">My wife: “They are.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “No, as the orcs are facing Minas Tirith, not them.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “The Orcs are in the middle of the sandwich!” *laugh*</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*oliphaunts move towards Rohirrim*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO chants: “Oliphaunts. Oliphaunts. Oliphaunts. Oliphaunts.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Now everybody is in a sandwich. Good guys and bad guys.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “I think oliphaunts can kill with their feet.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*green Jell-O starts to swarm the battlefield*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “The dead can’t be killed.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Gimli: “That still only counts as one.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: <span class="pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu" style="animation-name: none !important; display: inline-flex; font-family: inherit; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; transition-property: none !important; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;"><img alt="😂" height="16" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/td0/1/16/1f602.png" style="animation-name: none !important; border: 0px; transition-property: none !important;" width="16" /></span> “Did you hear that? He doesn’t want Legolas to get extra points for an oliphaunt.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*Théoden talks to Éowyn as he dies*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: *sigh* “It was Éomer that talked to him with his last words!”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Are orcs like me or elves? Are they mortal or immortal?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “Mortal.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">[I just noticed, in the movie we never see Sam actually put the ring on, he appears to only carry it.]</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “Why does his [Aragorn] hair look straight? It was curly before.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*Lords of the West ride towards Mordor*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “I want to know why Aragorn’s hair is straight.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">My wife: “He finally took a shower.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*Frodo and Sam walk across Plains of Gorgoroth*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “How are they surviving with only water?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “The movie made it much shorter instead of things taking days and days.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “Why does his hair look straight?”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*Black Gate opens*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “It worked.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">My wife: “They’re not at Mount Doom yet.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “I mean the diversion.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Does the ring have a mind of its own?”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*fell beasts fly over the Black Gate*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">My wife (to 6YO): “look, your favorite.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “There’s only eight!”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*eagles join battle before the Black Gate*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Are these the same kind of eagles Bilbo saw?</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “I think so. And the eagles can talk. Not just screech!”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*Frodo and Sam lie atop outcrop amidst lava*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “When are the eagles coming?”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Sam: “If ever I was going to marry someone it would be her [Rosie].”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO. “He is going to marry her silly.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “Don’t call Sam silly!”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Why did they need three eagles?”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “I can’t tell Merry and Pippin apart. I can tell Frodo and Sam apart but not Merry and Pippin.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “…all the Fellowship.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">My wife: “Sam’s not there.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “I said almost.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*Sam enters*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “There!”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*Aragorn kisses Arwen*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: *covers eyes*</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “Why are they all bowing to the hobbits?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">My wife: “Because the king did.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “Who saved them?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “Oh, the hobbits did.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">My wife: “Think how weird it was to see the tops of their heads.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*hobbits in tavern at end*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">4YO: “They have a pumpkin. Mommy, a really big pumpkin!”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*Rosie and Samwise kiss*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">4YO: “Ewwww.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">There were no comments about the Scouring of the Shire being missing.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*Frodo closes Bilbo’s book that he finished*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “Is that the Red Book?”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*Bilbo boards the boat*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Doesn’t Frodo go too?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Gandalf: “I will not say do not weep for not all tears are an evil.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Doesn’t Frodo go too?”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Is it going to show the after bits about Sam?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">My wife: “Just wait.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “I hope it does.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*Frodo hugs Pippin*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Is that Merry or Pippin?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “Pippin.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “How can you tell?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “I just know.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*Frodo looks back*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: *waves at screen*</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Did Merry and Pippin ever marry somebody?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “Yes.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*Rosie kisses Sam*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “Ew.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “Do they live in that house now?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Abigail: “Is Sam living in Bag End?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “Yes.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">*The End*</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “Aww, they don’t even let us see Valinor?”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Daddy, why didn’t it show Sam’s box of dirt? Are there after bits?”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “I can’t wait until next week.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">My wife: “What’s next week?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “The Hobbit.” (The 1977 animated one)</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">(c) 2004-2018 The Wolff's Tale. Please read responsibly -- don't read and drive!</div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05994659431007272552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498980.post-86462423599776503532022-04-24T21:54:00.002-04:002022-04-26T21:55:39.449-04:00Errantry, Princess Mee, The Man in the Moon stayed up Too Late, The Man in the Moon came down Too Soon, The Stone Troll, and Perry-the-Winkle<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgBjFyyc0V2vx0vrrN7uvLA1FS2Mq-FQSxWpmvD31CsqHCgAmc0Jg9mKYseIBSpc4xm-Tb9tR6iDTA-zuT6oy_Pw6P_dTQn-aCR9HQz5mvHq6gqtKuOqgCc94TsbOTEqSMMLaTKw-PmUwPwk3FV8PvjGWWu2fH9eR7kVJuPto2Nev-UoFD3w/s2048/Tom%20Bombadil%2002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgBjFyyc0V2vx0vrrN7uvLA1FS2Mq-FQSxWpmvD31CsqHCgAmc0Jg9mKYseIBSpc4xm-Tb9tR6iDTA-zuT6oy_Pw6P_dTQn-aCR9HQz5mvHq6gqtKuOqgCc94TsbOTEqSMMLaTKw-PmUwPwk3FV8PvjGWWu2fH9eR7kVJuPto2Nev-UoFD3w/s320/Tom%20Bombadil%2002.jpg" width="256" /></a></div>Today I read several poems from The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.<p></p><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Errantry, Princess Mee, The Man in the Moon stayed up Too Late, The Man in the Moon came down Too Soon, The Stone Troll, and Perry-the-Winkle. There are some hints they’re about Middle-earth, but some are subtle like the Bay of Bel (Belfalas).</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">As we read the last the eight year old had an observation about trolls.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “That couldn’t happen. Trolls turn to stone during the day.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">This led me down an interesting path of looking up trolls in the Encyclopedia of Arda*, and specifically stone-trolls. I found the footnote there citing that stone-trolls might have a different origin from other trolls quite interesting.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">“There is some doubt about exactly where the Stone-trolls came from, and the cause of their vulnerability to sunlight. Tolkien discusses the issue in his letters (specifically, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, No. 153, dated 1954) but there he confesses to being uncertain on the point himself. He suggests that these Trolls were 'counterfeits' rather than truly living creatures, and so could not survive outside the darkness that spawned them. He's careful to note, though, that these origins do not apply to all Trolls, and nor do the weaknesses of the primitive Stone-trolls.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">The concept of them not being truly alive could explain their strange speech, habits, and the fact that other trolls (e.g. in the Silmarillion) don’t love the sun but can fight in it. Regardless of where the truth lies I find there is always something new to learn about Tolkien.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">* <span style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl gpro0wi8 py34i1dx" href="http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/s/stonetrolls.php?fbclid=IwAR0fKGMe6V4UuWEMo3CadpCEqYFXyI9Jq2wcI90Mq5gWexb25CKgEO-INeE" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; animation-name: none !important; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition-property: none !important;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/s/stonetrolls.php</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">(c) 2004-2018 The Wolff's Tale. Please read responsibly -- don't read and drive!</div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05994659431007272552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9498980.post-28277132877836432102022-04-23T21:52:00.005-04:002022-04-26T21:53:58.714-04:00The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Bombadil Goes Boating<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0yeFHdUemskOA99ybHpBbkr6cLgOyrgtNxusbgQAdHKw8QUHcbCw5RKF0QLX543CtUZmMYFcxNyueRJ0LB0bKASl4MXsGhoVxu1nTZQD6RwNe6wOMSFQTlJUPOwEVQGS5RHFBGOSy7ptBf_OnT1IVWCMeHMu1oRdqdsNlzOg9h3vGQW217g/s2048/Tom%20Bombadil%2001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0yeFHdUemskOA99ybHpBbkr6cLgOyrgtNxusbgQAdHKw8QUHcbCw5RKF0QLX543CtUZmMYFcxNyueRJ0LB0bKASl4MXsGhoVxu1nTZQD6RwNe6wOMSFQTlJUPOwEVQGS5RHFBGOSy7ptBf_OnT1IVWCMeHMu1oRdqdsNlzOg9h3vGQW217g/s320/Tom%20Bombadil%2001.jpg" width="256" /></a></div>Tonight we started The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and read the preface and the first two verses, the first one being the same as the book and the second “Bombadil Goes Boating.”<p></p><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO (looking at the cover of The Adventures of Tom Bombadil before we started reading): “Who was Tom Bombadil?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “We don’t know.”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">As we read the second verse the question came back.</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Is Tom Bombadil a dwarf?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “No.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: Who was Tom Bombadil?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “We don’t know.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “Does the one who made the book know?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “J. R. R. Tolkien.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “Does J. R. R. Tolkien know?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “He never told us what Tom Bombadil was.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “How old was Tom Bombadil? Do we know that? Was he around during the first age?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “Let me look it up.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “He saw the elves go East* so he is as old as the elves or older.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “So he is older than Elrond.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “Yes. And remember Galadriel is older than Elrond.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Much older. She was in Valinor even before the Trees fell!”</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">* <span style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl gpro0wi8 py34i1dx" href="http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/t/tombombadil.php?fbclid=IwAR0Ex1TqYQfbhtahZSDCqTSLjzpyuCpa4PyHJ0uA0V1p08H_mbsplxxfuRQ" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; animation-name: none !important; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; transition-property: none !important;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/t/tombombadil.php</a></span></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">“You old farmer fat that cannot walk for wheezing…”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">8YO: “Who is he?”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">6YO: “The guy with the dogs.”</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Me: “Come, Maggot! Help me up!”</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">(c) 2004-2018 The Wolff's Tale. Please read responsibly -- don't read and drive!</div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05994659431007272552noreply@blogger.com0