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Furnishing Rivendell

A reader commenting on Jody’s bed post — so to speak — remarked that those tree-bed hybrids he was writing about looked like furniture for Rivendell. Rivendell, of course, is the holy valley of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. That is, Tolkien never uses the word holy: . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh, Wilderness Were Paradise Enow!

OK, Sally, look: I know that we’re supposed to be religion blogging here at Icons & Curiosities, but I just saw for sale this apple-tree bed:Its neighboring metalworks-tree bed, too:and I had to post them. I suppose I could connect them to our topic via, maybe, the brilliant work being done on . . . . Continue Reading »

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