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Ik ben Martijn, software-ontwikkelaar bij DGMR Software, vader van drie bloedjes van kinders, liefhebber van taal, fantasy en science-fiction.
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When I think of your Gollum and Shelob oneshot I can’t help but think of those spiders that keep frogs in their lairs as pest control.
i forgot spiders did that! yeah that's probably what she's doing.
Valacirca, Quenya for “Sickle Of The Valar”, was...
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tolkienmatters: Valacirca, Quenya for “Sickle Of The Valar”, was a constellation of stars. Known as the Wain or Plough to the hobbits, and the Great Bear to Men. The stars came from Varda, Queen of the Valar. She created the stars from the dew of Telperion the White Tree, Elder of the Two Trees of Valinor. The world was lit so that Middle Earth could share the light of Valinor. This was before the coming of the First-Born (Elves), and Melkor had just escaped and created his armies of evil in Middle Earth; building Angbad, his great armory. In an effort to combat his growing influence over Middle-Earth and support the coming Elves the stars were wrought. Symbols among the stars included Menelmacar, “The Swordsmen Of The Sky” in Quenya, who prophesied the Last Battle, Though it is considered to be Túrin Turamabar. The Valacirca was created as a sign of doom to Melkor, seven stars set to swing and end Melkor. In the modern world Menelmacar is Orion and Valacirca is the Big Dipper.
“And in answer he sang a song of challenge that he had made in praise of the Seven Stars, the Sickle of the Valar that Varda hung above the North as a sign for the fall of Morgoth. Then all the strength left him and he fell down into darkness. - Beren answering the song of Lúthien Tinúviel during the battle at the Isle of Sauron. Part of the epic Lay of Lethian. The Silmarillion, Of Beren and Lúthien.
“Home is behind”
“Home is behind”
This wraps up my series of mini linocuts for book 1 of The Fellowship of the Ring
Software & code
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"Preview HTML" is a plug-in for Notepad++ which allows previewing a HTML page inside Notepad++ while editing it. (No longer maintained, source available).
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HTMLTag plug-in for the Notepad++ editor. (No longer maintained, source available).