We finally finished reading 'The Lord of the Rings' last week.

Sam laughed his ass off at the last part-somehow it was the funniest thing ever(or at least almost as funny as the first chapter of 'The Hobbit' where the dwarves keep popping in to Bilbos surprise and consternation) when the hobbits kick Saruman's ass so royally in the humble setting of the Shire after all the tremendous trials and tribulations they've gone through in the 'big' world.

He was kinda disappointed that they left that out of the movies, along with most of the songs.

He absolutely loved the ass-kickin' battle scenes yo. Especially when the mumakil come plowing through, scattering cavalry like chaff with their giant tusks and when Legolas swings up and singlehandedly takes down an entire cavalcade of Haradrim, dispatching the great oliphaunt with an arrow to the skull... Leaps with steady grace to the ground and shrugs at Gimli, whose rejoinder-"Still only counts as one!" 'bout splits Sam's sides with laughter.

So, where to go from there? I'm thinking of Ursula Leguins Earthsea trilogy but for now it's on to Usagi Yojimbo, by the talented(have you ever tried to make a rabbit look truly stern, honerable and heroic?-it's not easy and the man does it really well) and prolific Stan Sakai, for some kickass samurai rabbit action...

Hmmm... Can I get the words 'ass' and 'kick' in a few more times before the end of this post?

Naw... I think that's enuff, before y'all get tired of it and want to kick MY ass!

:)

Hey, it's sunny! I should go get my ass outside and open up the cloche, let those babies breathe...

sorry... some words just won't stop kicking...

oh, bad, bad girl.

stop.