So-La-Fa-Ti...

Blergh. My throat hurts and I feel like I'm coming down with something. I've been sipping tea all morning. Yay for random weather changes! I really don't feel like studying but it can't be helped...exam's in four weeks! OMG.

Anyway, because watching this video always makes me feel better (and I watch it approximately once a day) I bring you "a drop of golden sun". :-)

If this video doesn't put a smile on your face, I don't know what will :-)

Oh, Tolkien [Geek-Moment of the Day]

The fun part about my exam is that I get to read Tolkien's essay on Beowulf. :D The essays's quite interesting, especially since it becomes plain obvious how The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit etc. weren't only influenced by Tolkien's admiration for Beowulf plot-wise, but more importantly by the general atmosphere about the poem.

Tolkien writes:

Beowulf is not an actual picture of historic Denmark or Geatland or Sweden about A.D. 500. But it is (if with certain minor defects) on a general view a self-consistent picture, a construction bearing clearly the marks of design and thought. The whole must have succeeded admirably in creating in the minds of the poet's contemporaries the illusion of surveying a past, pagan but noble and fraught with a deep significance—a past that itself had depth and reached backward into a dark antiquity of sorrow. This impression of depth is an effect and a justification of the use of episodes and allusions to old tales, mostly darker, more pagan, and desperate than the foreground.

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