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The Family Man, Elf, Four Christmases, Fred Claus, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Rankin Bass Year Without a Santa Clause et. al.

Oh, and if you are a "Game of Thrones" fan check out "The Worm Ouroboros" by English writer E. R. Eddison.

You may also be interested in "A History of The Art of War in the Middle Ages" by Charles Oman.

You may also enjoy "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by American-British author Bill Bryson.

Filling in some gaps with The Worm Ouroboros (sadder than I expected), Jurgen (funnier than I expected), and Quag Keep (unfortunately, not as good as I expected).

lol. There's an early print Monster Manual in my collection lovingly colored to "make it even better." Then there's my first copy of the WHFRP rules that has at least 12 index tabs permanently attached to the pages "to make it easier and faster." Always had a reason...definitely did not help...

I was introduced to D&D at the age of 10 by a fellow fifth grader when I told them I liked the Hobbit movie that had just been on television. That one movie, from Tolkien's works, was all I knew about the "Fantasy" genre at that time. The older kids playing D&D had collections of books they had...

I only recently became aware of Morris' influence on Tolkien when reading "Strictly Fantasy," by Gerald Nachtwey. Is this also where you discovered it? I am always on the lookout for more resource materials.

D&D and eventually AD&D were our main systems in the 70's to mid 80's. There was a lot of modification of the D&D rules, though, through supplements and alternate rules like (The Complete) Warlock, Manual of Aurania, Arduin, and other LBB's. Dabbled in T&T for solo adventuring along with the...

The Acaeum indicates there are 10-15,000 copies in circulation of the first and second printings that both contain the later deleted mythos. The true first printing will not have a thank you to Chaosium on the bottom of page 4. Great gift, BTW!