From Barnes & Noble webpage: "Dylan (littlemiss2shoes@...), a lover of the illiad, July 22, 2003, five stars the illiad and what it tought me. this year in...
Here's one... St Patrick in a limited edition fountain pen by Krone: http://www.kronepen.com/le/imagery/stpatrick.html I actually saw it in a Joon pen catalog,...
JH: (emerging from lurkersville)...Yeah!!! At our traditional Anglican parish the Athanasian Creed is read antiphonally by the congregation on Trinity Sunday,...
Hi gang, I am much enjoying my new vanishing point pen. I just found, on pendemonium.com, in the italic pen section, an offering for just the nib and...
... I often choose Trinity Sunday to start a reread of Dorothy L. Sayers' THE MIND OF THE MAKER, which is a) about the Trinity and b) certainly almost-mythie....
http://www.middleearthfurniture.co.uk/ Far as I'm concerned, the furniture's not the only thing that's distressed. The dark words of the Ring (which their text...
So, yes, there is Jeanne d'Arc (who met a sad fate) and Mu Lan (whose story I never knew) but I feel as if there were others... but then, perhaps, it is just...
Hello all, Just wanted to say that the book I've been working on since "Tolkien in the Land of Heroes" was finished has finally shipped. Title is "Dragons of...
"Eowyn is the only real human heroine in The Lord of the Rings. And, although there are very few women in the books, Tolkien did make them strong characters....
Greetings members! I'm looking for a fantasy humor/parody that includes mentions of "thew oil" and the quote "He was down to his last thew and soon would have...
OK here is another copy of a question I am posting to a couple of lists. Listen up all you pen fiends. Does anyone have one of those Pilot retractable...
I just noticed this, thought might be of interest to some folks here ( or did someone post this already? I have not had time to read many postings of late.) ...
Wendell (and anyone else interested)-- You asked a while back about the letters to Arthur C. Clarke in C. S. Lewis's _Collected Letters, Vol. II: Books,...
From Today's Washington Post. Don't Quoth Him on That By Richard Leiby Thursday, April 8, 2004; Page C03 Though long dead and buried in Baltimore, Edgar Allan...
The _Morlindale"_, being perspectives on events during the First, Second, and Third Ages of Arda by Melkor, Sauron, the Lord of the Nazgul, and Pallando the...
I have just received via Lee Speth a handwritten letter to the Mythopoeic Society that is in Italian. Since neither Lee nor I read Italian, we are fairly...
In traffic today, I spotted a car in an adjacent lane which was an unusual deep red-purple color. The license plate read FAIRY1. Naturally after that I had to...
One of the interesting things to happen because LotR is so popular... BEOWULF: Darclight Films has announced the pre-production of BEOWULF, an epic tale based...
Diamond's remark on a recent thread: <<L Sprague de Camp (I think it was he) propounded some rules for fantasy/sf writing, one of which was that the names...
From an entry from last December on a web journal I happened to come across: -- I was trolling through Amazon looking for books to buy as Christmas presents. ...
