Derfel Cadarn

To be fair, that swim would probably be quite pleasant compared to what she endured crossing the Helcaraxe (27 years I think), what’s essentially a dark arctic wasteland

He’ll draft any boy or man whoncan walk and have them charge guns/minefields en masse with what’s left of the Russian army waiting behind with guns ready to shoot anyone who doesnt advance

Russian convicts now signed up until end of the war, no longer just for 6 months https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68140873

There’s over a century between BG1 and 3, lus numerous big events (Sundering etc) during thet time.

If Russia takes Ukraine, it may well be mobilised Ukrainians he sends into the baltic states

What are these Americanisms you speak of?

You’ve still to elucidate exactly what these insidious ‘politics’ are. Lotr is a single book released in three volumes, not a trilogy.

Does ASoI&F have too much ‘American politics’ for you? I prefer ASoI&F by far. Imho Tolkein should have, post-Fellowship, spliced the Frodo chapters with the non-Frodo ones.

Fake chatter!

Maybe otger way round? The army wasnts 400k people called up, and zelenskyy has been hesitant

I think he was expelled for bullying. He apparently did gardening work for a while before getting into RADA, doibtless due to him being part of the Fox acting family. According to him lrdviously, it was also largely due to an ‘indiscretion’ with a girl at a dance.

Had to lol at the Tolkien estate’s epic trolling: As RoP season 1 comes out, probably watched mostly by those who’ve not read the books and almost certainly not The Silmarillion - and thus probaly know nothing about the history/lore - the estate releases a book called The Fall of Numenor. If the title was too subtle a spoiler, the cover shows the island being drowned by the sea…

Laurence Fox lost his libel trial - he was found guilty of libelling two people, calling them paedos. His counter-suit, that they harmed his reputation by calling him a racist lost - thr judge referred to his twitter antics, blacking up and making the pride flag into a swastika https://news.sky.com/story/laurence-fox-libelled-two-men-when-he-referred-to-them-as-paedophiles-high-court-judge-rules-13059482

I’m currently binging thr Slow Horses books (after binging thr TV series), and just starting Joe Country. Also re-reading thr Dark Tower books, currton Drawing of Three at the moment. in a few months I’ll start my re-read of Memory Thorn Sorrow, then read for the first time the sequel series, timed for the release of the last book. After that, the Wherl of Time and maybe my Drizzt books

The post office scandal gets worse - BBC has documents/emails that prove the attempt to cover it up, and to sack those IT people who were finding thr software bugs https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68079300

Jaw pain can also indicate a heart attack, so maybe bear that in mind. And also that heart attacks in women are more likely to be missed than those suffered by men

Had forgotten that one! There’s also a dodgy transporter episode from what i recall

Which episode was thay’t?

Slow Horses on Apple TV. I got a free 2-month trial, but even if you have to pay for a month and binge, worth it

The show writers don’t have the rights to The Silmarillion, so unless Finrod’s death is described in thr LotR appendicss, the Tolkein estate would get sued for describing his death as it happened in Thr Silmarillion (unless they got permission from thr estate)

UK cover with some warriors sitting around a campfire

Watching Enterprise season 3 ep 18 Azati Prime, and the ship is getting the shit kicked out of it. What sets it apart from earlier series (ie Voyager) is that the ship remains fucked up for the rest of the season. Archer’s razor was presumably a casualty because he starts growing stubble. Seasons 1-2 were pretty bland, but this season ramps things up - Archer has numerous ethical dilemmas, not all neatly tied up. He condemns an innocent ship to three years of impulse travel.

Congrats!

*Feist* had grown tired of the Midkemia books long before it came to its end. He was phoning it in for fifteen years.

It was the cover of Ratmond E Feist’s Shards of a Broken Crown that drew me to fantasy in 1998.