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The protagonists were also caricatures. The stuff that French 75 members yell all sounds good in isolation, maybe, but doesn't add up to...

Just saw One Battle After Another and loved it. It's another film where I really wish I had been in the pitch meeting. Either he told...

Saturday night my sleep was pretty crappy, but I did get a decent breakfast, and I still forced myself to go in late Sunday morning...

100%. Tieflings in D&D are more than 30 years old at this point. And they've been a core race for 17. Modern fantasy has a lot more...

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...