This afternoon I got some quarters in change. I dropped them in my pockets.<\/p>\n
I tend to play with coins in my pockets. Shove my hands down in the pockets, rub the coins between my forefinger and thumb. I like the feel of some coins more than others. The best tactile experience I get from a coin is the Susie B; the reliefs on both sides of the coin are more pronounced than other other coin.<\/p>\n
The state quarters all feel different. Some are more interesting to feel than others.<\/p>\n
I noticed that one of the quarters felt a bit different. It felt… unfamiliar<\/i>.<\/p>\n
I fished it out of my pocket and looked at it.<\/p>\n
It was Hawaii’s quarter.<\/p>\n
I hadn’t seen Hawaii’s quarter before.<\/p>\n
I didn’t realize it had one of the Pillars of the Argonath on the reverse. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Okay, okay, I realize that’s probably King Kamameha. But it looks so<\/i> much like the the enormous statues of Isildur and Anarion constructed by Gondor in the second millennium of the Third Age along the banks of the River Anduin.<\/p>\n
Yes, I typed that out from memory. But no, I couldn’t tell you off-hand which is which, if it’s Anarion on the eastern shore, Isildur on the western shore, or vice-versa.<\/p>\n
The Pillars of the Argonath appear in The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age<\/i>, that woe-begotten role-playing game for the Xbox and PlayStation 2. There’s a point where if you explore a cave system, you can come out to an opening in a rock wall that overlooks the Nen Hithoel and the Falls of Rauros. From that point, you have an amazing vantage on the enormous statues.<\/p>\n
Fantastic visuals in the game. Repetitive gameplay, underwhelming story. It’s really too bad I didn’t work for Electronic Arts; I could have come up with a better story for the game. Alas, alack, and many alarums.<\/p>\n
Wait. What was I saying?<\/p>\n
Hawaii quarter, that’s right!<\/p>\n
Alas, it doesn’t feature the Pillars of the Argonath on the reverse, no matter how much it looks like it, nor how unbelievably cool that would have been.<\/p>\n
Alas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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