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		<title>From Mirkwood with Love</title>
		<link>http://avariquen.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/from-mirkwood-with-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valaraen Avariquen</dc:creator>
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Haarland —
My fond greetings from beyond the Anduin, within the depths of that which was once Greenwood the Great.
Fell creatures dwell here in Mirkwood, savage and strange and unlike any I have yet seen.  Here, in the decrepitly beautiful ruins of Dannenglor, the Enemy keeps their prisoners.  Even during high daytime, the light [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=avariquen.wordpress.com&blog=4123400&post=598&subd=avariquen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Into the Shadow</title>
		<link>http://avariquen.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/into-the-shadow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valaraen Avariquen</dc:creator>
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My apologies, friends, for my lack of communication of late.  War has come to Mirkwood and I could not ignore the call to action.  I have, as such, crossed the Anduin into the forests which were once the home of Thranduil&#8217;s people, before they were driven out or to the north.  In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=avariquen.wordpress.com&blog=4123400&post=594&subd=avariquen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Passing the Time</title>
		<link>http://avariquen.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/passing-the-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valaraen Avariquen</dc:creator>
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My greetings from  the high plains of Eregion once again.  Though I have been wandering here with my thoughts for a while, and the beauty of the sun setting against the clouds has lightened my spirits a little.  I must admit, begrudgingly, that I have been rather lonely of late.  Thalya has taken her leave [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=avariquen.wordpress.com&blog=4123400&post=588&subd=avariquen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Awakening of Sorts</title>
		<link>http://avariquen.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/an-awakening-of-sorts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valaraen Avariquen</dc:creator>
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My greetings to you all.  I feel as though I have come out of a deep sleep to find myself once again in reality – the stars and the moon over the Anduin seem otherworldly, do they not?  I do not even have a sense of how long I have been away. After a very [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=avariquen.wordpress.com&blog=4123400&post=585&subd=avariquen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Caras Galadhon</title>
		<link>http://avariquen.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/caras-galadhon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valaraen Avariquen</dc:creator>
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Haarland —
My greetings from Lothlórien!
I wished to show you my home, because I saw your enthrallment at the beauty of Rivendell.  Here, Thalya and I sitting near the fountains close to the center of Caras Galadhon, our city.  In the background, high in the mellyrn are the telain (platforms) upon which we live.  Few Humans [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=avariquen.wordpress.com&blog=4123400&post=581&subd=avariquen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kept Outside</title>
		<link>http://avariquen.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/kept-outside/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valaraen Avariquen</dc:creator>
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Hello, everyone.  Mother, Father.  My friends.  All of you.
I am writing to you from directly outside of Lórien.  See how beautiful it is, even here, the forest outside Lórien lit by the moon and lantern light.  It is calm, and relatively comfortable, for a mere campsite for those who may not enter the wood. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=avariquen.wordpress.com&blog=4123400&post=572&subd=avariquen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Flooded Treasury</title>
		<link>http://avariquen.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/the-flooded-treasury/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valaraen Avariquen</dc:creator>
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My greetings from the very depths of Moria.  The last days have been exhausting, and I know not how long I have been awake.  I cannot sleep &#8211; the things I have seen recently are indelible, and I am reeling in a state of numb, lasting terror.  A group of my allies gathered, some days [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=avariquen.wordpress.com&blog=4123400&post=551&subd=avariquen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Into the Waterworks</title>
		<link>http://avariquen.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/into-the-waterworks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valaraen Avariquen</dc:creator>
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Haarland —
I am quite grateful that I was able to communicate with you, a link to the outside world is a rare and welcome thing for me.  Your assertion that I am your &#8220;favorite Elf&#8221; makes me feel quite special.  That is one of the most touching things anyone has ever said to me, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=avariquen.wordpress.com&blog=4123400&post=519&subd=avariquen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Heart of Fire</title>
		<link>http://avariquen.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/the-heart-of-fire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valaraen Avariquen</dc:creator>
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Greetings, to you all.  In Moria I am close to you, yet so far away, deep under the mountains.  This is The Heart of Fire, as the Dwarves call it.  The room, an ancient forge, I believe, is unimaginably hot.  Molten metal (or rock, perhaps) pours from an unknown source, feeding the the pools in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=avariquen.wordpress.com&blog=4123400&post=517&subd=avariquen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sûri-kylä</title>
		<link>http://avariquen.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/suri-kyla/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valaraen Avariquen</dc:creator>
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Haarland —
It is our last night here in Sûri-kylä, the northernmost Lossoth settlement on the Ice Bay.  I cannot wait to come south again, where I can breathe the air without feeling as though I am going to choke on it.  I have been fortunate to be given lodging by the Lossoth in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=avariquen.wordpress.com&blog=4123400&post=511&subd=avariquen&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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