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the hobbit logo is shown on a piece of parchment paper with mountains in the background

Hopefully, your metaphorical mountain has less metaphorical dragons. Yesterday, Kadie talked about NeilGaiman's method for finding your mountain. While this sounds fairly simple, much like identifying what you want to be when you grow up, it gets significantly harder to do once you've graduated. We're here to tell you – it's okay to embrace the process. In photography, sometimes you have to wait until the light is right. In painting, the canvas may need to dry before you can apply more…

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a painting of a dragon with its mouth open and wings spread out over it's head

It's interesting to me that in Beowulf the Dragon had been asleep or bored, or not committing crimes against humanity for so long that it lay forgotten in it's hoard. But then a servant steals away with so much as a cup and it's time for the Dragon to rage it's vengeance on Beowulf's countrymen. I'm sured Tolkien was inspired by this to awaken Smaug when little Bilbo Baggins saunters in as a thief and takes the Arkenstone.

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