but perhaps it was one of those apparently nonsensical things that Men did: nonsensical things which had somehow won them great kingdoms.
Utter perfection. As is the entire Estel section. (As is the entire thing, really.)
Of course, you won me over just by having your librarian be obsessed with classification rather than tracking down overdue books (I have have been bitterly disappointed by fiction in this regard many times). Because yes: how do you organize books accumulated over thousands of years, encompassing continents that now no longer exist, multiple civilizations, and multiple races?
Glad I don't have that task! Also:
Fortunately, nineteen of the destroyed scrolls were duplicated elsewhere in the library, and the twentieth was a piece of ephemera that had no place in the archives at all.
Absolutely a librarian's mindset! Or at least, it matches mine. "Oh, you broke the spine on that book? It's fine--we have another one and were probably going to weed it anyway." (Vs.: "It's absolutely out of print! How are we going to replace it?!") Along with, "Why were we hanging onto that in the first place?"
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Utter perfection. As is the entire Estel section. (As is the entire thing, really.)
Of course, you won me over just by having your librarian be obsessed with classification rather than tracking down overdue books (I have have been bitterly disappointed by fiction in this regard many times). Because yes: how do you organize books accumulated over thousands of years, encompassing continents that now no longer exist, multiple civilizations, and multiple races?
Glad I don't have that task! Also:
Fortunately, nineteen of the destroyed scrolls were duplicated elsewhere in the library, and the twentieth was a piece of ephemera that had no place in the archives at all.
Absolutely a librarian's mindset! Or at least, it matches mine. "Oh, you broke the spine on that book? It's fine--we have another one and were probably going to weed it anyway." (Vs.: "It's absolutely out of print! How are we going to replace it?!") Along with, "Why were we hanging onto that in the first place?"