Create the functionality to cycle through quotes on a daily/weekly/monthly basis automatically.
Do this by:
- Creating a function which takes the day of the year, and finds the remainder upon division by 7.
- The result is then used to select quotes from any of the 7 pages listed here (excluding "The Lord of the Rings/Quotations", since quotes for each book are contained in pages for each individual book). The 7 pages making up the "quote bank" are:
* J.R.R. Tolkien/Quotations * The Hobbit/Quotations * The Fellowship of the Ring/Quotations * The Two Towers/Quotations * The Return of the King/Quotations * The Lord of the Rings Appendices/Quotations * The Silmarillion/Quotations
The end result of this should be that on day 0 (whatever day January 1st is - assume Wednesday as an example), a random quote by J.R.R. Tolkien will be shown (first in the list above). Then on Thursday, a random quote from The Hobbit (second in the list above) will be shown, and so on, until Tuesday, when a random quote from The Silmarillion (last in the list above) will be shown. Once we get back to Wednesday, the process will repeat, but with a randomly selected quote from each page each day. This can be modified to be weekly, but currently testing it as a daily change.
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https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/J.R.R._Tolkien/Quotations
Regarding Middle-earth
Bingo Bolger-Baggins is a bad name. Let Bingo>Frodo Baggins.
The stories were made rather to provide a world for the languages than the reverse. To me name comes first and the story follows.
The story is cast in terms of a good side, and a bad side, beauty against ruthless ugliness, tyranny against kingship, moderated freedom with consent against compulsion that has long lost any object save mere power, and so on; but both sides in some degree, conservative or destructive, want a measure of control. But if you have, as it were taken 'a vow of poverty', renounced control, and take your delight in things for themselves without reference to yourself, watching, observing, and to some extent knowing, then the question of the rights and wrongs of power and control might become utterly meaningless to you, and the means of power quite valueless.
Regarding other matters
My political opinions lean more and more to anarchy. The most improper job of any man, even saints, is bossing other men. There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power stations. I hope that, encouraged now as patriotism, may remain a habit.
Trends in the Church are... serious, especially to those accustomed to find in it a solace and a 'pax' in times of temporal trouble, and not just another arena of strife and change.
A real taste for fairy-stories was wakened by philology on the threshold of manhood, and quickened to full life by war.
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might have found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.
Regarding Tolkien himself
Though Tolkien lived in the twentieth century he can scarcely be considered a modern writer. His roots were buried deep in early literature, and the major names in twentieth-century writing meant little or nothing to him.
He is a smooth, pale, fluent little chap - can't read Spenser because of the forms - thinks all literature is for the amusement of men between thirty and forty... His pet abomination is the idea of 'liberal studies'. Technical hobbies are more in his line. No harm in him; only needs a smack or so.
Length of The Silmarillion/Quotations page is 1728 characters.