Nina’s blog is awesome. For example, not that long ago, she hosted an LGBTQIA event on her blog called Rainbow Reads – she had some awesome authors and bloggers (myself included) taking part, and dealt with all aspects of LGBTQIA teen fiction.

It dispelled the muddle into which Bilbo’s phrenetic ravings had crowded my thoughts.

this doctrine of the refusion of the soul

I prefer both sire and dam to be well-bred, but a well-bred mare and an underbred horse will produce a faster animal than a thoroughbred horse and an underbred mare.