Featured Indie Book: Reflections - A Love Story (Dennis Waller) Featured Indie Book on Indie Author News: Contemporary Romance Reflections - A Love Story (Part One) by Dennis Waller. Reflections - A Love Story is a powerful love story, romantic, deep, sensual and magical yet it reads like a true story. With elements that will bring laughter and tears, this is one story that will leave the reader pondering about the depths of true love and life after death. The Book has been self-published via Amazon and is available as eBook and Paperback. (released in September 2013) About the Book Losing his wife was only the beginning for him. Dying was only a beginning for her. They were the Dom Soul, two parts of a twin soul, who loved each other through many a lifetime. The love between Daniel and Vanna was so strong that they could not wait until the next life to be reunited again. Yet, death would not give up easy on the soul once it claimed it. Would the love these eternal lovers share be strong enough to fight against the inevitable? Is there an existence outside of the cycle of reincarnation? Are our lives written in stone or can we write our own destiny? The answers lie in The Tao of Love: Reflections Click to Read an Excerpt Reviews (Excerpts) - "[...] it's not just a sensual and deep love story. It is a philosophical look at life, love, and death. It is an introduction to Eastern mythologies and philosophies done so well that it permeates the very fabric of the story and is inseparable from the romance itself. The structure of the story and the ending are surprising and unexpected, yet logical. Highly recommended. " - Warrior Princess - "[...] From the very first hint of something bigger than the usual love, I was hooked. Author Dennis Weller paints the picture of a "fated" love in "Reflections" Told in the first person, this story is different from the rest. The author switches between characters so that nothing is left to question. We get to experience both Daniel and Vanna's emotions.[...] " - LoveOfReading - "The hot romance between Daniel and Vanna is something magical.[...]" - Adam R. - "I loved this romantic tale about a man suffering from the loss of his wife who turns the tables on a journalist hearing his story. It begins as a moving tale about the death of a loved one and then morphs seamlessly into a cool story with a 'Usual Suspects' type twist. I won't spoil the ending, but there's something here for everybody - romance lovers, thriller readers and anyone who appreciates a well-structured narrative." - TalleyRand About the Author Author Dennis Waller Dennis Waller, author of several best selling books including "Tao Te Ching- A Translation," is recognized as an expert on spiritual experience, self-discovery, and exploring the human consciousness. As writer, speaker and philosopher, his teachings invoke an introspective view on how to discover one's true authentic self through a higher sense of consciousness and awareness. He is best known for his work in the field of Indigos, people who possess unusual or supernatural abilities. His other fields of expertise include comparative religion, the law of attraction, and interpreting Eastern thought's relevancy to science and quantum physics. He is in demand as a guest speaker on radio programs, a lecturer at churches and life enrichment groups, and conducts workshops for Indigos. Links to the Author and the Book Link to the Author's Facebook Page Connect via eMail: dennismwaller@yahoo.com Connect with the Author on Twitter: @dennismwaller Link to the Paperback Reflections - A Love Story with Excerpt on Amazon Link to the eBook Reflections - A Love Story with Excerpt on Amazon Posted by Alan Kealey
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
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Sunday, October 6, 2013
Huge LEGO Helm's Deep made with 150,000 bricks and 2,000 minifigs
Huge LEGO Helm's Deep made with 150,000 bricks and 2,000 minifigs
Head over to Kim's Flickr gallery to see all the incredible detail work they did on this piece, including the varied minifigs and those tiny weapons of war.
Saturday, October 5, 2013
Durin,s Day When By theonering
When exactly is Durin’s Day in The Hobbit?
OCTOBER 5, 2013 at 5:42 AM BY DEMOSTHENES 
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In this extensively researched piece, DarkJackal uses Tolkien’s notes as published in John D. Rateliff’s The History of the Hobbit to explains why there are conflicting theories… and, in a very Tolkienian fashion, no definitive or easily settled upon answer.
Confusticate and Be-bother these Dates! The Durin’s Day dilemma
by DarkJackal
Having read a number of articles on Durin’s Day, including various attempts to assign a date to it within the story, and to predict it in our modern world, I feel compelled to write my own brief (ha!) essay. My approach to this is two-fold: First – take Excedrin for the headache this issue is causing. Second – quote John D. Rateliff’s The History of the Hobbit until things begin to make sense.
“It was the start of the dwarves new year, when the last moon of autumn and the first sun of winter appeared in the sky together.” – Gandalf (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)
Many Tolkien enthusiasts estimate Durin’s Day of 2941 (which Thorin Oakenshield said happens towards the end of autumn, but not necessarily the last day of autumn, as Gandalf stated in the film) to have occurred in October. You can see how they arrived at this conclusion in the following articles:
The Moon and Durin’s Day – by Lalaith
Was Smaug Slain Oct 26, 2941 TA? – by Auraran
Durin’s Day 2013 – by Ask About Middle Earth
Is Durin’s Day Upon Us? – by The Dwarrow Scholar
Timeline/Chronology for “The Hobbit” – by Douglas Wilhelm Harder
Other authors calculate that Durin’s Day in our world would happen in December, based on our own definition of Autumn:
Observing Durin’s Day – by Kristine Larsen
Predicting Durin’s Day – by Iduna
Unfortunately Tolkien never created a calendar for the dwarves, and because he also says that the seasons of Middle-earth have no specific beginning or ending dates, it is possible the dwarves may view the beginning and ending of autumn as occurring on different dates than the hobbits, or elves, or men did. Unfortunately there is nothing I know of in the canon to confirm or deny this, but Tolkien did have this to say regarding the names of months used in The Lord of the Rings:
“…the seasonal implications of our names are more or less the same, at any rate in the Shire. It appears, however, that Mid-year’s Day was intended to correspond as nearly as possible to the summer solstices. In that case the Shire dates were actually in advance of ours by some ten days, and our New Year’s Day corresponded more or less to the Shire January 9.” (The Return of the King, Appendix D).
This becomes important to our discussion further on, since Tolkien uses both the Shire calendar and the Gregorian calendar in his (unpublished) notes. We also know that, at least in The Lord of the Rings, events take place “‘in the Northern Hemisphere of this earth: miles are miles, days are days, and weather is weather’” (Rateliff 827).
Bootnote: Having read all the articles, I agree with DarkJackal, headache tablets (or whisky!) is in order. However, Rateliff seems to indicate Tolkien was leaning toward October 19 as the Gregorian date it would have occurred on in TA 2941 but just couldn’t make the numbers fit and eventually gave up. I think?
Friday, October 4, 2013
C.S. Lewis Honered
Honors to be given to C.S. Lewis 50 years after death in poets corner.
Lionizing Lewis | Christianity Today
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
J.R.R. Tolkien art for The Hobbit.
Art of the Hobbit: Never-Before-Seen Drawings by J.R.R. Tolkien
by Maria Popova
A lively new look at one of the most beloved fantasy stories of all time.
In creating the artwork for The Hobbit, Tolkien borrowed from a short story he had written for his son Michael, titled “Roverandom.”
Also included are conceptual sketches for the now-iconic dust jacket cover painting of the mountains Bilbo Baggins transverses in his adventures.
HarperCollins publisher David Brawn observes The Hobbit’s unfair eclipse in The Lord of the Rings’ shadow:
People have celebrated Tolkien as a writer for years — you haven’t been able to get away from him since all the books of the century polls. But The Lord of the Rings has always been the focus since it was published in 1954 — it’s a much more grown-up, significant book. It has overshadowed The Hobbitas a more old-fashioned, children’s book, which has become known in the context of The Lord of the Rings. The anniversary allows us to move the spotlight back on to the book which started it all.”
A rare piece of cross-disciplinary creativity from the mind of one of modern history’s greatest creators, Art of the Hobbit is equal parts literary treasure and treat of art, exploring the notion of the author as designer — a particularly timely concept in the age of self-publishing and disciplinary cross-pollination in the making of books.http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/11/01/art-of-the-hobbit/
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