The Twisted Knickers

The Twisted Knickers is a pub deep in the heart of the Shire where travellers and locals alike gather. The food is plain but good, the ale excellent, the entertainment varied and often unexpected. Anything is possible at The Knickers.

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Orest Vereisky “By the Window” (1991)

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The Ice Ship

Artist : Angela Barrett (b. 1955)

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Ada Limón, “It’s the Season I Often Mistake,” in The Hurting Kind [ID in alt text]

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various types of guys in initials

in the "chansonnier de zeghere van male", an illuminated songbook, bruges, c. 1542

source: Cambrai, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 128

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Sycamore Gap, Hadrian’s Wall, Northumberland, England

by Grant Bush

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“Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien, foreword to the second edition of The Lord of the Rings, October 1966

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“It [The Lord of the Rings] is finished, if still partly unrevised, and is, I suppose, in a condition which a reader could read, if he did not wilt at the sight of it…now I look at it, the magnitude of the disaster is apparent to me. My work has escaped from my control, and I have produced a monster: an immensely long, complex, rather bitter, and very terrifying romance, quite unfit for children (if fit for anybody); and it is not really a sequel to The Hobbit, but to The Silmarillion.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien to Sir Stanley Unwin, 24 February 1950

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lamblittle

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Edith Holden (source)

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grinning beast

book of hours, Bruges or Ghent 15th century

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 287, fol. 156v

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July  

Edith Holden (UK 1871- 1920)

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Meadow by Anna Billing

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Edith Holden (source)

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constellation Cygnus

Fazio degli Uberti, II Dittamondo, Milan ca. 1447

BnF, Italien 81, fol. 175r

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(Julian of Norwich)