Ironfire Fortress is a demonic fortress feared even across the Nine Hells. Two demon lords, who very often fight each other, inhabit the fortress. Nobody knows the truth behind their conflict, neither for why they continue to coexist in the same place. Someone guesses that the gigantic pit in the middle of the fortress might hide the reason.
The Fortress is built atop a lava mount and it is accessible only through a fire-scorched iron bridge. A grand corridor leads directly to the Ironfire Pit, while lateral entrances provide access to the two parts of the fortress.
Boldy going where its gone many times before (and will be syndicated forever). Star Trek is poised to return to television with a new adventure for the first time since Enterprise wrapped in May 2005. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Alan Kurtzman has timed it around the 50th Anniversary. To premiere on CBS in January 2017. From there subsequent episodes will air on the network's VOD platform, CBS All Acces, a digital streaming service that costs $5.99 per month. No real details have been provided, but then we have over a year to go for this, so I'm sure there will be more teasers in the meantime.
Yet another Netflix movie that you might not have heard of or seen. A refreshing break from the standard "vampire" fare that Hollywood has been regurgitating lately. It completely throws out the standard cliched storyline and replaces it with a much more unique script. Not to mention the excellent acting by the likes of Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan, two woman on the run through the ages who are just trying to get by. This is yet another "non-Hollywood" movie that just proves that Hollywood is in a rut, as films outside of Hollywood are consistently creating interesting/unique stories to tell.
All in all another good flick worth checking out on a boring afternoon/evening.
Finally, a pretty decent Sci-fi movie with a nice little twist at the end. The premise of the film is that a
camera spits out a future photograph of the living room in its line of
sight, every 24 hours. The 3 people living in the apartment where the
camera is directed find out about it and from there on in things begin
to spiral wildly out of control.
This
film was interesting in a similar way that "Primer" was interesting
with time travel, in that it is done in an unique way not seen a hundred
times before. In this, the future ends up dictating the present and
making present events happen to correspond with the what the picture
from the future shows.
Fair
warning this is more of a drama-mystery-suspense than sci-fi. The only
sci-fi element was the camera. Reminded me somewhat of an old Twilight
Zone episode in that respect. That and the story seemed strangely familiar as well. As with pretty much all time travel films, there are plot holes. All in all... a good flick and definitely worth checking
out on a boring afternoon/evening.
A while back I pointed out some interesting magazines that were available over at archive.com in this post. It seems that they still have the OMNI collection up.
From Wikipedia:
OMNI was a science and science fiction magazine published in the US and the UK. It contained articles on science fact and short works of science fiction. The first issue was published in October 1978, the last in Winter 1995, with an internet version lasting until 1998.
OMNI was launched by Kathy Keeton, long-time companion and later wife of Penthouse magazine publisher Bob Guccione, who described the magazine in its first issue as "an original if not controversial mixture of science fact, fiction, fantasy and the paranormal". Before launch it was referred to as Nova, but the name was changed before the first issue to avoid a conflict with the PBS science show of the same name, NOVA.
The magazine was initially edited by Frank Kendig, who left several months after the magazine's launch. Ben Bova, who was hired as Fiction Editor, was promoted to Editor, leaving the magazine in 1981. After Kendig and Bova, Editors of OMNI included Richard Teresi, Gurney Williams III, Patrice Adcroft, Keith Ferrell, and Pamela Weintraub (editor of OMNI as one of the first major standalone webzines from 1996-1998). Kathleen Stein managed the magazine's prestigious Q&A interviews with the top scientists of the 20th century through 1998. Ellen Datlow was Associate fiction editor of OMNI under Robert Sheckley for one and a half years, and took over as Fiction Editor in 1981 until the magazine folded in 1998. The very first edition had an exclusive interview with renowned physicist, Freeman Dyson, the second edition with American writer and futurist, Alvin Toffler.
OMNI entered the market at the start of a wave of new science magazines aimed at educated but otherwise "non-professional" readers. Science Digest and Science News already served the high-school market, and Scientific American and New Scientist the professional, while OMNI was arguably the first aimed at "armchair scientists" who were nevertheless well informed about technical issues. The next year, however, Time introduced Discover while the AAAS introduced Science '80.
Advertising dollars were spread among the different magazines, and those without deep pockets soon folded in the early 1980s, notably Science Digest, while Science '80 merged with Discover. OMNI appeared to weather this storm better than most, likely due to its wider selection of contents.
International editions of OMNI magazine were published in at least five markets. The content in the British editions closely followed the North American editions, but with a different numbering sequence and British advertising. At least one British edition was entirely unique and was shipped under the banner of "Omni UK". The Italian edition was edited by Albert Peruzzo and ran for 20 issues from 1981 to 1983. The Japanese edition ran from at least 1982 to 1989. German and Spanish editions were also published.
Since I'm both a fan of maps and Star Wars, I was excited when I found this site. An interactive galactic map that allows you to experience a certain 'galaxy far, far away', planet by planet. Now why wasn't this around back when I was playing Traveler.
Since I've already done the regional trade resources map in Greyhawk, a regional alignment map only seems like a logical extension to that. Here it is;
Original Batgirl TV Star Yvonne Craig Passes Away At 78
Comic book fans around the world mourn the loss of the 1960s Batman television series’ Batgirl, Yvonne Craig. Her sassy and independent portrayal of Batgirl would shape the character for decades to come (in both animated TV shows and comic books alike).
Yvonne Craig had the distinct honor of being the first actress to ever portray a live action version of the Batgirl. However, this week on Monday her battle with cancer took her life quietly; she was 78 years old, at the time of her death.
The 1966 Batman television series is the thing of campy cult legend. When Yvonne Craig joined the show it was beginning its third and final season on ABC. The production values and budget were being slashed drastically and the producers felt that they needed to inject something new into the series to make it more interesting. Craig’s portrayal of mild mannered librarian and daughter of the police commissioner Barbara Gordon by day and the strong and independent Batgirl by night would go on to make a huge impact on the fans and help to solidify the character of Batgirl, who had only debuted in the comic books six years prior.
Her experience as a ballet dancer helped Yvonne Craig to do her own stunts both in fight scenes and on her motorcycle on the Batman TV show. Batgirl emerged on television at a time when the women’s lib movement was strong. Her character reflected the national mindset and her secret identity was never revealed to Batman and Robin. Batgirl always stood on her own two feet with her own costumes, gadgets and gear. Her final appearance as Batgirl came in 1973 when she was commissioned to do a public service announcement for the Federal Equal Pay Law.
Craig is also known by fans of the classic Star Trek series as the Orion Marta from the episode “Whom Gods Destroy”. Her Marta character is a green, and slightly unstable, Orion slave girl that accompanies Garth of Izar, a shapeshifting baddie that eventually kills her character. Yvonne also found her way into several other iconic series, such as The Man from U.N.C.L.E., McHale’s Navy, My Three Sons and The Wild Wild West. It was her role in Batman, however, that made her a feminist icon and would prolong her fame until the time of her passing.
A statement from Yvonne’s family has been posted on her official website:
Yvonne was a very private person, so from the onset of her battle with cancer, she decided to share with immediate family and very close friends. She wanted to spend all of her energy concentrating on winning her battle. She was adamant about this and wanted to tell her story when she was cured and feeling better. We all respected that wish.
The statement goes on to say:
Fight as she did; however, over the past two plus years, she still lost her battle with metastasized breast cancer that had gone to her liver. Her operation right before Christmas, removed portions of her liver and some tumors as well as her gallbladder (not infected but in the way) and honestly she never totally recovered from that and more malignancies showed up again much to our dismay.
She had been in chemo almost continuously for the past two plus years since being diagnosed and that had weakened her immune system as well as her body. This didn’t dampen her sense of humor or her spirit, she intended to fight and win this battle. In the end, her mind still wanted to fight but her body had given up.
Please celebrate Yvonne in your own way and the work she has left behind for you to continue to remember her by and enjoy.
The world has lost a legendary star of the small screen. The fan community has lost one of the kindest and most passionate actors to ever portray a comic book character. A great number of fans have had the pleasure of meeting Yvonne Craig on the convention circuit over the past few decades. (Yvonne felt so connected to her character that she even complained to DC Comics when the Joker paralyzed Barbara Gordon in “The Killing Joke”. )
Thank you Yvonne for your contribution to the fandom. Our deepest condolences to Yvonne’s family and friends. You can read her official obituary on her website.
R.I.P. Yvonne Joyce Craig: May 16th, 1937 – August 17th, 2015
Just like I did the other week, I just got an email about the new updated Dungeon Master's Guide PDF.
So if they keep up with what they've been doing so far, it should be going on sale tomorrow over at;
While you're at it here's the errata for all AD&D 1st edition re-prints over on Dragonsfoot as well as a comparison of the reprints versus the originals.
Since I'm a Linux geek who loves maps this one struck my fancy. These are from the Dedoimedosite.
The Great Linux World Map
Here it is, the Great Linux World Map, the Atlas of the Theater of the World, Dedoimedo style. The smaller
image below links to a full-sized 2752x1536px 1.19MB PNG map. The map
is in 16:9 aspect ratio, so you can use it as a wallpaper, if you fancy so. Enjoy!
For different formats, here are a: PDF version
(1.1MB) Grayscale version (892KB)
Black & White version
(124KB).
The Great Linux World Map Version 2.0
Below is the map, 2752x1548px in size, in 16:9 ratio, good for desktop wallpapers. You get the full colored
version (2.27MB), linked in the illustration below, a clean black & white version (693KB) in case you
want to use your own coloring scheme and make modifications, and I warmly welcome those, and a special black & white version (693KB)
with some extra Latin text, see if you can spot it there. All PNG format. Click to enlarge.
In case you haven't already seen this... take an HD look at Pluto!
Pluto flyby photos thrill New Horizons scientists after nine-year Nasa mission The Guardian
NASA spacecraft makes history as the first spacecraft to reach distant dwarf planet, the last unexplored world in the solar system.
NASA’s New Horizons probe flew past Pluto early Tuesday, providing the clearest images yet of the dwarf planet.
New Horizons launched in 2006 and has traveled 3
billion miles in the past nine years. It’s not stopping at Pluto, but
it flew past the dwarf planet at 7:49 a.m. ET Tuesday.
At its closest approach, the spacecraft will have been just 12,500
kilometers (about 7,750 miles) from the surface, traveling at 14
kilometers per second (31,000 miles per hour). The pass was the closest
scientists have ever been able to get to Pluto.
The stunning image of the dwarf planet was captured in the above photo from New Horizons
at about 4 p.m. EDT on July 13, about 16 hours before the moment of
closest approach. The spacecraft was 476,000 miles (766,000 kilometers)
from the surface.
NASA released the first close-up photo of Pluto on Instagram Tuesday morning, taken before the spacecraft reached its closest approach.
But Hubble was in Earth’s orbit, so the photo wasn’t very clear. But earlier this year, in May and June, New Horizons began sending back pictures of Pluto that were better than any Hubble had taken.
For those who haven't seen it over on the wizards site is another hilarious installment of Jason Thompson's walk-through cartoon maps of classic modules. This time we get his rendition of the adventureT1: The Village of Hommlet. Jason has done quite a few of these and always packs tons of detail into his maps, check it out if you haven't already!
From part of the write up;
Your party is now approaching the Village of Hommlet, having ridden
up from lands of the Wild Coast. You are poorly mounted, badly equipped,
and have no large sums of cash. In fact, all you have is what you wear
and what you ride, plus the few coins that are hidden in purses and
pockets. What you do possess in quantity, though, is daring and a desire
to become wealthy and famous.
Thus your group comes to Hommlet to learn if this is indeed a place
for adventurers to seek their fortunes. You all hope, of course, to gain
riches and make names for yourselves. What the outcome of this will be
is uncertain, but your skill and daring, along with a good measure of
luck, will be the main ingredients of what follows, be it for weal or
woe.
To either hand forest and meadow have given way to field and orchard.
A small herd of kine graze nearby, and a distant hill is dotted with
the white of a flock of sheep. Ahead are thatched roofs and stone
chimneys with thin plumes of blue smoke rising from them. A road angles
west into the hill country there, and to either side of the road ahead
are barns and buildings—Hommlet at last! The adventure begins….
And with that, Jason Thompson walks us through the trials of a
typical party seeking to gain said riches in the ruins of the nearby
moathouse.
The original Village of Hommlet Moathouse maps, to compare:
About the Author
Jason Thompson (@mockman) is a comic artist, illustrator and D&D player. He is currently designing his first tabletop game, Mangaka: The Fast & Furious Game of Drawing Comics at www.mangakagame.com.
Just got this in my inbox from Dungeons & Dragons Classics.
The 1st Edition Player's Handbook is back!
No more searching through stacks of books and magazines to find out
what you need to know. The Player's Handbook puts it all at your
fingertips, including: All recommended character classes: Fighters,
Paladins, Rangers, Magic-Users, and more.
Character Races: Dwarves, Elves, Gnomes, Half-Orcs, Humans, and more.
Character Level Statistics.
Equipment lists with costs.
Spell listings by level and descriptions of effects (including many new spells!).
As a dungeon adventurer or Dungeon Master, you will find the contents
of this book to be what you have been waiting for. All useful material
is now compiled under one cover, especially for players!
Well the PCs have finally made it through the "Against the Giants" series of modules
and are proceeding into the
"Descent Into the Depths of the Earth" portion of the whole GDQ series. Now, while I own the original modules, I still like using printed out maps in game, usually as covers in the 3-ring binders I have all my DM notes in. While the maps provided in the modules D1-2 and GDQ 1-7 are all good, I ran across Maldins Greyhawk pages a long while back and he has a color map he re-did for the Dragonsfoot Collaborative Project: Mapping the Depths of the Earth. While I like his map the distinction between the tertiary tunnels and the hidden tunnels are hard to distinguish (for my old eyes anyway). See for yourself.
That's why I dusted it off and edited it slightly to conform more closely to the black and white map in the Descent series, as far as the tertiary tunnels go anyway. I also changed the encounter hex colors for the non-module encounters to yellow as well as the river color. It's easier to just look at the revised map to see the revisions.
Revised DM map of the Underdark
For me anyway, it makes it clearer which are the secret passages and which are the tertiary tunnels, as well as distinguishing between the Gygax module encounters at a glance. My thanks to Denis for a fine map.
Now with that all said and done the players, naturally, don't get the pretty printed out map, but rather they have to make do with the hand drawn map below.
Players Map of the Underdark
They got this from the deep gnome spy in the Trading Grounds, for the appropriate price of course as well as a promise to debrief him on their escapades in the Underdark as well as any intel on the Drow.
A while back I posted a general environs hex map of the Greyhawk area in the Lost Temple of Pelor post.
Greyhawk environs
Since then a couple of characters have staked out a couple of hexes for themselves to be cleared out and castles/headquarters built. The two hexes are listed below. Note that the map below includes (3) three new labels; for Brightwoods, the Honey Tree and Lion Castle.
Brightwoods
And below is the exploded 30 mile hex view of the Honey Tree area.
Honey Tree
The Lion Castle area is still TBD but it will contain the very familiar map from the BSOLO module Ghost of Lion Castle.
Enough of these obits, here's a link to something I ran across a little while ago. Since I'm a huge Tolkien fan I'd thought I'd share it with the folks out there (probably all 2 of you) who might find this interesting as well. Evan Palmer, dude. | Part 1 of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Ainulindalë. Its still in the early stages, but I'll be keeping an eye on it from time to time to see how far he actually goes with this.
This makes me want to pull out my old copy and re-read it again for the 10th or 15th time.
Everyone by now should be aware that Christopher Lee has passed on. This article on iO9 had some pretty interesting facts that I just thought were great. I've re-posted the full article here, but for those folks who want to see it in it's original state follow this link.
If
Sir Christopher Lee had just been a movie star, he would still have
been an icon. But the late actor, who passed away last week, had an
amazing life even beyond his incredible body of work. Whether you’re
still lamenting his passing or unsure why his death is such a loss,
here’s 22 reasons why Christopher Lee will always be a legend.
1) He was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records in 2007 for most screen credits,having appeared in 244 film and TV movies by that point in his career— at which point he made 14 more movies, with a 15thdue later this year (titled Angels in Notting Hill).
He also holds the record for the tallest leading actor — he stood 6’ 5”
— but also for starring in the “most films with a sword fight” with 17.
2)
He mother was an Italian contessa, and through her Lee descended from
the Emperor Charlemagne of the Holy Roman Empire and was related to
Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general.
3)
He met Prince Yusupov and Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, the assassins of
the Russian monk Rasputin. He didn’t do this as research for his later
film role as Rasputin (in the 1966 Hammer film Rasputin the Mad Monk), but just as a child in the 1920s.
4)
At age 17, he saw the death of the murderer Eugen Weidmann in Paris,
the last person in France to be publicly executed by guillotine.
5)
During World War II, Lee joined the Royal Air Force but wasn’t allowed
to fly because of a problem with his optic nerve. So he became an
intelligence officer for the Long Range Desert Patrol, a forerunner of
the SAS, Britain’s special forces. He fought the Nazis in North Africa,
often having up to five missions a day. During this time he helped
retake Sicily, prevented a mutiny among his troops, contracted malaria
six times in a single year and climbed Mount Vesuvius three days before
it erupted.
6)
At some point during the war he moved from the LRDP to Winston
Churchill’s even more elite Special Operations Executive, whose missions
are literally still classified, but involved “conducting
espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe against the
Axis powers.” The SOE was more informally called — and I can’t believe
this somehow hasn’t been made into a movie yet — The Ministry of
Ungentlemanly Warfare.
7)
Lee never said anything specific about his time in the SOE, but he did
say this: “I’ve seen many men die right in front of me - so many in fact
that I’ve become almost hardened to it. Having seen the worst that
human beings can do to each other, the results of torture, mutilation
and seeing someone blown to pieces by a bomb, you develop a kind of
shell. But you had to. You had to. Otherwise we would never have won.”
By the end of the war he’d received commendations for bravery from the
British, Polish, Czech and Yugoslavia governments.
8)
Speaking both French and Italian, Lee spent his time after World War II
he hunting Nazis with the Central Registry of War Criminals and
Security Suspects until he decided to give acting a try at age 25. Yes, all of this happened before Lee was 25 years old.
9)
While filming a swordfight with a drunken Errol Flynn during the
filming of The Dark Avengers in 1955, Flynn accidentally cut Lee’s hand
so badly his finger nearly came off, and permanently injured. Later, Lee
cut off Flynn’s wig while Flynn was still wearing it. Flynn stormed off set and refused to come out of his trailer until Lee claimed it was an accident.
10)
While best known for his portrayal of Dracula in countless films, he’s
also starred as the Mummy and Frankenstein’s monster. Of course he’s
known as Saruman in Lord of the Rings and Count Dooku in the Star Wars prequels, but his other villainous roles include Fu Manchu, Rasputin, Rochefort of The Three Musketeers
(whose portrayal was so popular the character now inevitably appears
with an eye patch, although it wasn’t in the book — Lee introduced it),
Lord Summerisle of The Wicker Man, the James Bond villain Scaramanga, Mephistopheles, and Death himself.
11)
Lee was not only related to James Bond creator and author Ian Fleming —
they were step-cousins — but Lee was actually one of Fleming’s first
choices for the role of Bond, not least because of Lee’s World War II
and SOC experiences.
12) He has played Sherlock Holmes, his brother Mycroft Holmes, and also Sir Henry Baskerville of The Hound of the Baskervilles.
13)
Tired of playing Dracula and feeling that the movies had gotten
sub-par, Lee tried to quit Hammer films, but studio executives guilted
him into returning by stressing how many people could be out of work if
Lee stopped churning out hits. Lee agreed to star in 1966 Dracula: Prince of Darkness,
he felt the script was so awful he adamantly refused to say any of the
dialogue. (Hammer decided that it was far more important to have a mute
Lee as star as opposed to anyone else, and thus had Dracula hiss and
yell through the film.
14)
In the ‘50s, Lee was engaged to Henriette von Rosen, daughter of Count
Fritz von Rosen. The Count apparently didn’t like Lee, because after
hiring private detectives to investigate the actor and demanding
references, he also refused to allow his daughter to marry him unless
Lee got the blessing of the King of Sweden. Lee got it.
15) Lee was a major Tolkien fan, reading The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings
trilogy once a year for the majority of his life. He was the only
member of the movie cast to have met Tolkien personally — apparently he
ran into him randomly in a pub — and fanboyed out. Tolkien actually gave
him his blessing to play Gandalf in any future Lord of the Rings movie.
16) When Lee heard that Hollywood was going to finally make the LotR trilogy into movies, he took a role in the terrible 1997 TV series The New Adventures of Robin Hood
as a wizard, specifically so he’d have clear evidence of his ability to
be a wizard. When he heard Peter Jackson would direct the films, he
sent Jackson a personal letter asking to be in the movies along with a
picture of him dressed up as a wizard. Unfortunately, Lee’s advanced age
and his natural ability to play villains made him an even better choice
for Saruman.
17) The story has gone around a lot, but it bears repeating because it is incredible: During his death scene in Return of the King
(only included in the Extended Edition to Lee’s disapproval), director
Peter Jackson was describing to him what sound people getting stabbed in
the back should make. Lee gravely responded that he had seen people
being stabbed in the back, and knew exactly what sound they made.
18)
Lee was quite interested in the history of public executions, and
reportedly knew “the names of every official public executioner employed
by England, dating all the way back to the mid-15th century.”
19) He’s always been a big metal fan, but he released his first full heavy metal album in 2010 at the age of 88. Titled Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross, which won the “Spirit of Metal” award from the 2010 Metal Hammer
Golden Gods ceremony. He made a metal Christmas album in 2012. He was
the oldest metal performer, and the oldest musician to ever hit the
Billboard music charts.
20)
In addition to his impossibly prolific film career, Lee was a world
champion fencer, an opera singer, spoke six languages, and was a hell of
a golfer.
21)
He was made a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the
British Empire in 2009, a Commander of the Venerable Order of Saint John
in 1997, made a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by the
French government in 2011, earned he British Academy of Film and
Television Arts Fellowship in 2011, received the The Bram Stoker Award
for Lifetime Achievement in 1994, and so many more.
22)
Last but not least: Despite everything you’ve heard about the “six
degrees of Kevin Bacon,” Christopher Lee was recognized as being the
most connected actor in the world in 2008, again by Guinness. He
connects to virtually any actor in 2.59 steps, beating Bacon.
Yet another Netflix movie that you might not have heard of or seen. A refreshing break from the standard "vampire" fare that Hollywood has been regurgitating lately. It completely throws out the standard cliched storyline and replaces it with a much more unique script. Not to mention the excellent acting by the likes of Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan, two woman on the run through the ages who are just trying to get by. This is yet another "non-Hollywood" movie that just proves that Hollywood is in a rut, as films outside of Hollywood are consistently creating interesting/unique stories to tell. 
Finally, a pretty decent Sci-fi movie with a nice little twist at the end. The premise of the film is that a
camera spits out a future photograph of the living room in its line of
sight, every 24 hours. The 3 people living in the apartment where the
camera is directed find out about it and from there on in things begin
to spiral wildly out of control.
Comic book fans around the world mourn the loss of the 1960s Batman television series’ Batgirl, Yvonne Craig. Her sassy and independent portrayal of Batgirl would shape the character for decades to come (in both animated TV shows and comic books alike).
Yvonne Craig had the distinct honor of being the first actress to ever portray a live action version of the Batgirl. However, this week on Monday her battle with cancer took her life quietly; she was 78 years old, at the time of her death.
The 1966 Batman television series is the thing of campy cult legend. When Yvonne Craig joined the show it was beginning its third and final season on ABC. The production values and budget were being slashed drastically and the producers felt that they needed to inject something new into the series to make it more interesting. Craig’s portrayal of mild mannered librarian and daughter of the police commissioner Barbara Gordon by day and the strong and independent Batgirl by night would go on to make a huge impact on the fans and help to solidify the character of Batgirl, who had only debuted in the comic books six years prior.
Her experience as a ballet dancer helped Yvonne Craig to do her own stunts both in fight scenes and on her motorcycle on the Batman TV show. Batgirl emerged on television at a time when the women’s lib movement was strong. Her character reflected the national mindset and her secret identity was never revealed to Batman and Robin. Batgirl always stood on her own two feet with her own costumes, gadgets and gear. Her final appearance as Batgirl came in 1973 when she was commissioned to do a public service announcement for the Federal Equal Pay Law.
Just like I did the other week, I just got an email about the new updated Dungeon Master's Guide PDF.
The 1st Edition Player's Handbook is back!
Enough of these obits, here's a link to something I ran across a little while ago. Since I'm a huge Tolkien fan I'd thought I'd share it with the folks out there (probably all 2 of you) who might find this interesting as well. Evan Palmer, dude. | Part 1 of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Ainulindalë. Its still in the early stages, but I'll be keeping an eye on it from time to time to see how far he actually goes with this. 
