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How will you count down the holly jolly days?
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There's a ton of artists and illustrators posting a festive illustration a day until Christmas. The ornaments above are Ann Shen, but you should also follow Rob Biddulph, Christine Pym and Joana Avillez and search for these hashtags on Instagram: "#illo_advent" and "#illustratedadvent".
“The strains of the piano and violin rose up weakly from below.” — The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
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From John Green's The Fault In Our Stars.
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From e. e. cummings' poem by the same title.
From Joan Didion's A Book Of Common Prayer.
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” Love & Treasure is a fucking great novel…”
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Because the magic of Hogwarts never goes away.
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The final installment from Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth (at least for now) is basically just Middle-earth’s greatest hits.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, which opens on Dec. 17, picks up right where the last installment, The Desolation of Smaug, left off this time last year. Without any foreplay, Smaug the dragon (performed with serpentine silkiness by Benedict Cumberbatch) barrels down on Lake-town as the residents scramble to evacuate, belching fire in devastating passes. Our hobbit hero Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) and his dwarven companions look on from their spot at the foot of Lonely Mountain, while Bard (Luke Evans) steps up to slay the massive monster. He rigs himself a makeshift bow to fire the Black Arrow and sights his target by balancing one end of the projectile on the shoulder of his trembling son.
It's a smashing sequence, and the best use of 3D in the movie, with Smaug charging at the pair of diminutive humans from the background as they ready their final shot. And it all takes place before the title card.
With the dragon dispatched, The Battle of the Five Armies lavishes the rest of its runtime on the promised orc-on-dwarf-on-elf-on-human fighting, in luxuriant and, honestly, tedious detail. It's an extravagant good-bye to the universe J. R. R. Tolkien created and that Peter Jackson then realized on screen, but it also does nothing to work as a movie unto itself. Instead, it's more like a television series finale, there only to please the die-hards and send everyone off in a flurry of tears and severed orc limbs.
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