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Sunday, June 16, 2013

Captain Blood: His Odyssey

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Sabatini's Captain Blood: His Odyssey is a defining book for the swashbuckling buccaneer genre. I wish I'd read it as a kid, but...
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Saturday, June 15, 2013

Starlight and more...

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Late last night, closer to dawn than Midnight, I awoke and, feeling restless, stepped outside for some air and to let the dog do his busines...
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Saturday, June 1, 2013

The road goes ever on...Palantir Quest

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 The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it w...
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Monday, April 29, 2013

"...the Guarded City, with its seven walls of stone so strong and old that it seemed to have been not builded but carven by giants out of the bones of the earth": Cities of Middle-earth - Minas Tirith

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The spiritual heart of Minas Tirith. This is the last bastion for good in Middle-earth; should it fall, all hope falls with it. A g...
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Saturday, March 23, 2013

Far under the living earth, where time is not counted: Moria

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The image on this older edition's cover is from Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings movie of 1978.      ‘There is a way that we ma...
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

The Black Gate Opens: Mordor's Front Door

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As I approach the end of my overview of Middle-earth Roleplaying sourcebooks, I now move to where some of Middle-earth's greatest confro...
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Laughter in the Night: Late Night Autobiographies

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Given that I subtitled this blog "Things Best Viewed After Midnight," it should come as no surprise that I've been an insomnia...