October is here, and today I changed my Tolkien calendar and my desktop wallpaper. I have the 2009 Tolkien calendar illustrated by Ted Nasmith, with landscapes from the First Age of Middle-earth, and I continue to use a monthly desktop wallpaper from Smashing Magazine. (The scene in the Tolkien calendar comes from one of the best and most tragic stories in The Silmarillion, when Féanor betrays the other elves leaving Valinor with him.)

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Current Books

• Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew
• Alvin Maker 3: Prentice Alvin
• The Kalevala

Recent Movies

• Where The Wild Things Are
• Heroes, Volume 4
• Public Enemies
• Away We Go