Still more juvenilia: “Bill ‘Coon’ and the Giant Mole” (around age 11), “Phooey to Handwriting!” (age 12), and less juvenilely, “The Invisible Net” (some time in my late 20s).
The second Tolkien reference in my post’s title is obvious; can you identify the first?
More juvenilia: two continuations of other people’s stories, both involving basketball – “The Loose Ball Foul” (age 10) and “One Day In the Life of Mike Teavee” (around age 11).
Check out David Gordon’s critique of Hans-H… I mean, Stefan Molyneux.
Still more juvenilia: “An Epic Poem” (age 11) and “Vocabulary Stories” (ages 10-12).
The first one has a sort of Fourth-of-July theme.
More juvenilia (ages 11-12): “Tiri of Portugal” (a boring story about a Portuguese boy traveling to America on his own) and “Flight to Borango” (a potentially interesting but unfinished story about an American boy traveling to Kenya on his own).
Commenting on “bane-herrings” as an Icelandic kenning for “swords,” Ben Waggoner quietly drops into his translation of The Sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok, among the otherwise serious scholarly endnotes, this one (p. 114, n. 4):
For more on the early medieval use of herrings as chopping tools, see Monty Python and the Holy Grail, scene 19.