It's Alabama. So.... yes. (View Post)

Tolkien did make it quite clear in the LOTR appendices that the names of dwarves, hobbits and others were taken from real life mythology, and used it to maintain the fiction that he had merely transl… (View Post)

A small contribution to the debate on great works of fiction, and one where many people will not have heard of th author, let alone the books: The Aegypt Cycle, by John Crowley, consisting of The Sol… (View Post)

My wife is a coroner's officer in West Sussex. Temporary morgues were activated a week ago or so. They are debating now whether they need to set up more. (View Post)

Detroit, Baltimore, Cleveland and other cities have problems because their base industries have declined significantly, if not completely. New York successfully transitioned because as jobs in indust… (View Post)