{"id":20977,"date":"2000-05-16T13:46:42","date_gmt":"2000-05-16T18:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2000\/05\/16\/green-books-for-all-seasons\/"},"modified":"2000-05-16T13:46:42","modified_gmt":"2000-05-16T18:46:42","slug":"green-books-for-all-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2000\/05\/16\/20977-green-books-for-all-seasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Books for All Seasons!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Greetings &#8211; Quickbeam here. <\/p>\n<p>As May brings us the long days of Summer, the poor cast and crew down in New Zealand are starting to bundle up against the first cold nips of Winter.  It&#8217;s a good time to cozy up to a warm computer and enjoy all the new updates in <b>Green Books<\/b>&#8230; Check it out: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/greenbooks.theonering.net\/anwyn\/files\/050100.html\">Emotion and Commitment<\/a>&#8221; is the brand new <b><a href=\"http:\/\/greenbooks.theonering.net\/anwyn\/\">Counterpoint<\/a><\/b> by Anwyn.  It&#8217;s an extraordinary piece on how the characters in <i>LOTR<\/i> struggle with the truest impulses of the human heart. \n<li> Turgon commits &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/greenbooks.theonering.net\/turgon\/files\/050100.html\">Literary Sacrilege<\/a>&#8221; by endorsing the Harvard Lampoon&#8217;s famous parody <i>Bored of the Rings<\/i>!  Love it or hate it, he&#8217;s already put it up on his <b><a href=\"http:\/\/greenbooks.theonering.net\/turgon\/\">Bookshelf<\/a><\/b>.\n<li> Woo-hoo!  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