This is the Internet home of the Callen/Petersen family. It's gotten a bit stale since I've started blogging, but feel free to look around anyway. what the kids are up to trip and event reports: hiking, skiing, weddings, whatever political stuff my blog backcountry skiing homeschooling stuff humor Pinewoods Morris Men geekage and other resources directions to our house my day job These are not out primary email addresses, but they will get mail to us. These will change once they are discovered by spammers. Please note that these are at narsil.org, not narsil.com)

Background and administrivia

• The "I" on this pages generally refers to Jerry Callen. I'm the family geek, so the stuff you're looking at is mostly my fault. Let me know if there's something you want to see here and I'll do what I can.
  
  
• Unless otherwise indicated, all material on this site is Copyright © 2002-2007 by Jerry L. Callen. All rights reserved. Please don't swipe my images!
  
  
• I'll try to keep the location of stuff reasonably stable, but linking is at your own risk.
  
  
• "What's Narsil?"
  
  In "The Lord of the Rings", Narsil was the sword of Elendil, forged by the dwarf Telchar of Nogrod. Elendil perished in battle with Sauron at end of the Second Age of the World, and Narsil broke beneath him as he fell. But Sauron was defeated, and Isildur, Elendil's son, used the hilt-shard of Narsil to cut the One Ring from the hand of Sauron. The shards of Narsil were preserved at Imladris (Rivendell) by Elrond and reforged for Aragorn as Anduril near the end of the Third Age.