It looked like this for five months after the contractor went broke:

Hoorah! This will make it much more pleasant and much less dangerous for #pedestrians to walk between #Miraflores and #Barranco!

Doctor Who actor Tom Baker with kittens.

And you thought there was not much to be happy about today... But turns out it's Tom Baker day! 91 and still going strong. #DoctorWho

No permission needed: it’s open to the public! But it’s a very small staff, and they appreciate advance notice.

An orange sun sinks below the horizon of the Pacific Ocean, and is reflected brightly in the clouds above. A small bush seems large in the foreground.

It’s taken some time to settle in and adjust, but I can report that the past three days have been much more productive here at Edificio Mythos (“Mythology House”) than in frigid New England. #sabbatical #Barranco #Lima #Peru

The entire draft collection (11,000 pages for The Lord of the Rings!) is viewable as high-resolution scans, though the originals are in a vault. The scans may only be viewed at Marquette, by Tolkien Estate (not archive) rules.

Anyone is welcome to visit the archive during business hours, tho it’s appreciated if you contact them first. On public display are reproductions of several draft pages, and there are published reference works available to consult as well as the world’s largest collection of early fandom material.

Tolkien Gateway’s page on the librarian in question, William Ready, is pretty good. There is no question that Ready fabricated the bit about Tolkien offerring to sell, though. He approached Tolkien using a London bookseller named Bertram Rota as his agent.

tolkiengateway.net/wiki/William...

Apparently an old high school friend of mine was granted access and she said that the person who started it did so because he saw the surge in Tolkien popularity coming. Prescient fellow.

A hand holding a small paper cup of espresso with foamy milk

My drink in Peru is not, as I’d thought, a cortado (too milky); neither is it a macchiato (too black). Rather, it is a cortado tres cuatros: a “short three quarters.” ¡Perfecto!

At this rate, you’ll exceed your previous quarterly results, and merit a waffle party!

Reminds me of Galadriel's mirror

The John Rylands Library, Armenian MS 3; Romance of Alexander; Turkey, Samatya; Armenian Era 933 (1544 CE); p.4a

Found & followed!

www.marquette.edu/library/arch...

Oh my Valar. I had no idea this existed. Well I mean I guess it makes sense that a Tolkien archive exists... But in Milwaukee??

Thank you, @jtauber.com James! Not sure why it took me so long to figure out where everyone had gone! 🤣