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Gallifreyan

00:04

Our university library is having an Ursula K. Le Guin commemoration week

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Bookworm

01:24

Q: Do the witches in Macbeth ever mention "eye of bat and tongue of frog"?

For a high school course in English literature, I'm reading Macbeth. On a basic multiple choice question about Act IV, scene I, I am given the following: The Witches threw into the cauldron I. eye of bat and tongue of frog II. wool of bat and tongue of dog III. fang of snake and eagle'...

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IkWeetHetOokNiet

12:51

Tweet by Nalo Hopkinson (August 2019): "Discovered literature stack exchange and am happily ego-surfing my name: (...)"

New Proposed Legislation in Missouri To Censor Public Library Materials - sigh.

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Rand al'Thor

18:22

@IkWeetHetOokNiet Oh hey, that's amazing!

Someone should tell her that we have a whole tag for her (to make searching easier) and that we had a whole topic challenge for her :-)

Napoleon Wilson

I thought people actually did.

Rand al'Thor

I think someone pinged her on Twitter at the time of the topic challenge, but she probably gets a lot of pings from fans and doesn't check them all.

... oh, now I notice the "August 2019". Duh.

I think our NH topic challenge was before that though. Maybe 2018.

Napoleon Wilson

Still the challenge was in '18.

Coincidentally around August too, it seems, though.

Rand al'Thor

18:37

RIP Christopher Tolkien

IkWeetHetOokNiet

19:13

@Randal'Thor Actually, the tweet sent from our Twitter control room pinged her: twitter.com/StackLiterature/status/1029395736775946241

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Bookworm

21:14

Q: What is the internal order of Christopher Tolkien's last three books in the Middle-earth legendarium?

Christopher John Reuel Tolkien, J. R. R. Tolkien's third son, died very recently. He is best know for editing and publishing materials he inherited from his father, including these three books: The Children of Húrin (2007), Beren and Lúthien (2017), The Fall of Gondolin (2018). According to W...