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Etsy seller Jocelyn has come up with a cathartic way to send students (or, as io9 suggests, balrogs) that message they may not be eager to hear. Her self-inking “You Shall Not Pass” stamp bears a silhouette of Gandalf next to his now-trademark phrase. You can purchase this sweet little piece of Tolkien-inspired hilarity for a mere $10 USD.
Thanks to our friend Josh at Grail Quest Books for passing this along to us!
Author: Oloriel
From time out of mind, Oloriel has been typing away in her little apartment, cats at her feet, hoping to reach out to other fantasy lovers by way of folkandfairy.com. Her discovery of Tolkien as a young adult awakened her long-dormant love of the otherworldly, and now she sees magic everywhere.
Oloriel has a degree in writing, which she put to work during a three-year stint in vanity publishing - an experience not unlike purgatory and very much like having to read 20 bad books each week - which she prefers not to talk about. To renew herself, she knits, naps, reads, prays, writes, walks in the woods, and eats too many cookies.
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It’s one thing to have it..If I could only use it =p
I can think of a thousand other uses. If your significant other forgets your birthday, if your (light-colored) cat bites you, if your co-worker annoys you… as a general expression of disdain, it works. I think.
Right..beyond the classroom lots of applicability. In fact, as a teacher I could easily use it to generate laughs on formative work; might not be such a good idea for summative stuff.
Funniest thing I’ve seen all day!