A Commonplace Book

"It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. "But no living man am I! You are looking upon a ...

In the Third Age, all the best families had heirloom blades handed down from generation to generation, graven or inlayed with ancient runes....

One does not simply ride into Gondor. Wearing a thong . Because that outfit is going to seriously chafe on a long horseback ride. Also, wh...

Dear Diary: I don't think Aragorn liked my stew. At all. He was, as always, a perfect gentleman, and he said he liked it, but I think ...

Not technically alive at this time? Well then, we'll need to improvise.

Eowyn: So. You've been in this campaign for 3,000 years. And, in a continent with at least five nonhuman races, plus undead, plus nonhum...

News media are biased, but the biggest problem isn't the ideological bias that conservatives complain about. Media are biased in favor...

So some say . I think not. When we operated the Space Shuttle, we killed two crews in 135 launches, a fatality rate like a bad year on M...

"Before departure, I studied the history of mankind's lunar probes. About half of the past 130 explorations ended in success; the r...

1-2 Agnolo Gaddi Discovery of the True Cross 1380s. 3-7: Tacuinum Sanitatis (BNF...