By: Charles
Stacy – You might want to check out The Histories of Middle Earth. It’s a 12 volume set edited by Christopher Tolkien laying out his father’s writing process. It is quite amazing to see where Tolkien...
View ArticleBy: Sherwood Smith
Constance: the book was published here in the U.S. and is indeed available. Just look up Diana Glyer's name on Amazon, it pops right up.
View ArticleBy: Constance Ash
Thanks, Sherwood. How come it’s not in Books in Print, I wonder? Kent State University Press (March 1, 2007) — not available in bookstores, generally, then? It’s not in the NYPL collections either....
View ArticleBy: Mary
You know, Rowling also wrote a much long epilogue for the series, that got axed. There is a certain amount of impulse to explain <em>how</em> everyone lived happily ever after.
View ArticleBy: Brendan Podger
When I first read LOTR it was the in the single book form that left out the appendices. I got to the end and was fuming. Sam who had followed and helped Frodo all the way across the world and had...
View ArticleBy: Constance Ash
Regarding more on taverns — barley for beer — Sumerian tavern keepers warned that they must accept barley as payment for beer, back, presumably, between 4000 and 2000 BC (Isn’t it 2,000 BC when the...
View ArticleBy: Muneraven
It is so much easier to say too much than it is to not say enough when you love words. Probably most of us who write need to have friends who will tell us to just shut up already…the story is DONE. 😛
View ArticleBy: Constance Ash
The more I think about it, the more joy I am finding in that barley payment for beer. It is the circle of life. Barley is what makes beer, barley is the money that pays for beer, beer attracts the...
View ArticleBy: Brendan Podger
Perhaps their civilization collapsed because they swapped from beer to rye whiskey. The rye brings ergotism. Ergotism lowers the immune system. People die of other pathogens they would have otherwise...
View ArticleBy: Constance Ash
Alas, dear Sir, there are so many holes in your lovely theory. Rye, though a close relative of barley, was not grown in that region, being a grain principally of eastern, central and particularly...
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