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Outside in the garden the snow is finally gone save for a few patches of white on the shadowy backside of our house. Needless to say that its quick disappearence indicates that the dreaded foehn wind had a hand in this, that´s why I am stuffed full of pills against headache and have been lying in front of the TV during this morning instead of working the lawn with our new thatcher (I had a good laugh when searching for the correct term and getting this one, which of course reminds me of Lady Margaret thinning out the influence of diverse unions which definitely was not funny at all). I watched a documentation of how Tolkien got his ideas for the characters in his work. It was in German, and I found some statements outright funny, like that Tolkien made it out of Great Britain only once, when he visited the Netherlands. I did not research into this but I know that Tolkien somehow must have made it to England from Africa´s South, that he did a journey across Switzerland and that he was on active service in France during WW1). But did you know that Tolkien´s model for Aragorn was Siegfried, the one with the big treasure and the magic hood? And can please someone tell Lady Galadriel that her son-in-law is a German? I so´d love to see her face when she gets the news. Could it get even worse? Well yes, in case her daughter had not married placid Elrond but fiery uncle Feanor after his divorce from Nerdanel, assuming that this one had not been killed as soon as he had set foot onto Middle-earth. I always disliked Galadriel, a character created as a pretty niece to uncle Feanor with next to no importance at the beginning and blown up to a heroine during time. A counterpart to Feanor! If I´d get as much of Feanor in the books as I got to read about Galadriel I´d die a happy woman! I did not make it to the end of the documentation because I fell asleep again, so I will have to look if I can find it in a mediathek or on Youtube. Maybe there´s even more funny insight to be discovered!
Bad news is that Lady Vaire´s recovery was short-lived, she once again stopped eating two days later. There´s a pattern in her eating habits: Cram the belly full for one day, eat considerably less the day after, do eat next to nothing for the next four days, then start over. Drat that cat, this one will be be the death of me!