"It is against my programming to impersonate a deity."

Gold star to you if you recognize that line without looking it up. We watched the revised version of that this evening; it was strange to have different music at the end. I want the old music back.

So there's a new Tolkien book coming out in April: The Children of Húrin.

D. and I just finished (and restarted) an amusing and occasionally exciting chapter book: How To Train Your Dragon, by Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, translated from the Old Norse by Cressida Cowell. This is the story of how to become a Hero, the Hard Way.