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Yeap, still think you got this backwards. You don’t need to be deep into any D&D to get this movie. In fact, a lot of D&D fans complain...

Loved the first two seasons. The third started to drift for me and the fourth was disappointing (relatively speaking). Overall, still a...

My recollection is that it's a colloquialism from Gondor, where they have no personal experience with the Hobbit culture. Halfling is a...

If I were doing a literary analysis of the scene, I'd say it's a fairly common death-and-rebirth thing. Plunging into darkness, clawing...

A widow is a single word or short line that appears at the end of a paragraph but gets pushed to the top of the next page or column. An...

Book 3, Chapter 3: the Uruk-hai Merry must be really strong to cut off a bunch of orc hands and arms. Given how easily so many orcs die...

The Lord of the Rings is not, strictly speaking, a trilogy. It was written and edited as a single book, and th three volumes were a...

Today, we begin reading the Two Towers. Last we left off, the Fellowship broke apart after Boromir attempted to seize the ring from...

Can you explain by what you mean by "in the narration" here? The word is used in the Council of Elrond when discussing Faramir's...

I just finished watching The Immortal Ascension, a live-action TV adaptation of Wang Yu's xianxia novel, A Record of a Mortal's Journey...

We did half armor dominance workout Saturday and grapple drills then full armor melees at about 15-25%. Pacing myself is difficult, I...

As I wait for my son. I'm going to try this single set method next week and see how it feels. Mon - Chest and Back Tue - Legs Wed -...

As a longtime wargamer I have a natural instinct to want to run massive battles as miniatures wargames (and Delta's Book of War is a...

And we got an email on the Shadowdark mailing list today, including a special solstice event (Darkest Day) and an update that the...

I run both Shadowdark and a decade-plus 5E Ptolus campaign. If your play is going to be primarily focused on The Dungeon -- an...