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I've been coming across lots of technical terms for horses recently: bay, garron, destrier, courser, etc. Could someone who has a clue enlighten me as to what they mean? Also what are their properties (which are faster/stronger etc.) and how does this convert into D&D. I currently get lost at...

I have read the Ashton Smith Book and really liked it. Lots of different stories of differing lengths you can dip in and out of. Also a range of different styles of stuff, very different from the similar and sequential stuff in the Conan books (not that the Conan books aren't good in their own...

barsoomcore, I feel our disagreement basically boils down to you not feeling I'm using the word "plot" correctly. I think I am, but I appreciate this sort of disagreement is very difficult to resolve in this sort of forum. What I mean by the plot is the scheme or plan behind a book/play/film. I...

I may have gone off the deep end and be giving fanboys a bad name. After all no-one else seems to care much. I do think the plot and reasons why things happen are important. In the books it's critical, since it makes Sauron take his eye off Frodo and Sam. Without it I think, is this Lord of the...

No it wasn't. In the film - after losing his finger and the Ring, and Gollum's dance - Frodo fights with Gollum to remain the Ring, and Gollum falls while fighting, there is also a complicated "have they both gone in" action pic cliche used. In the books the ultimate reason for Gollum's fall is...

I just want to post to bolster my claim that the plot of the books is different to that of the films. There are other small alterations, but the driving idea behind the books it the battle over the possession of the Ring. A short summary would be this: Sauron wants to enslave Middle Earth, and...

I agree completely that the books are great books and the movies are great movies. It's also wrong to expect a scene-by-scene adaptation of the books; which would have made a very strange film to watch. However, what strikes me when I watch the films is that the story being told is very...

Now that the whole opus is out there; what does everyone think of the alterations made to the plot of the books for the screen version? Frankly, I think it's almost as if it was adapted from version of the books from a alternate universe. Places are represented very close to the way they are in...

The film is brilliant, and the effects really give us something we haven't seen before. I thought it was great. That said, I want to spend the rest of my post bitching about things I didn't like... In terms of plot, it diverged way to much from the books. I'm not going to list all the ways...

Sam, your sig is the best way I've found of navigating the book group threads. I'm sure this is the case for a lot of other people too. With that in mind, could you changes the Tigana link to thread 68039, it's currently pointed at Dragondoom. Hope asking isn't too cheeky! Perhaps you should...

I'd be interesting if anyone could enlighten me. There are obviously going to be changes from the book for the purposes of adaptation to the screen (and by book I mean the Trilogy, I'm not that interested in how the film has switched events - like Shelob - from tTT to RotK). We've known for...

SF author Robert Heinlein’s first novel For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs is due to be published for the first time in January. Other Heinlein books include: Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, etc. Interestingly, rather than espousing the right-wing (some would say fascist)...

A feature on live action roleplaying in the guardian (and one of their picks of the day, for Saturday 13th). Someone linked to an article with a similar bent from the Times a while ago. http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,1105671,00.html I think it is odd that LARP - a...

I've just realised that there are a load of werewolf movies coming out in the next year or so, the like of which hasn't been seen since about 1980. There's Cursed (which admittedly will probably stink), a sequel and a prequel to Ginger Snaps (Ginger Snaps Back and Ginger Snaps Unleashed) and a...

Can I ask what the Last Unicorn is? It seems common knowledge among you lot, but I haven't a clue!

I just want to say thanks, particularly for the Weyman info and link. It really expands my knowledge of what's out there. I'm going put together a list of authors, see what they've got in local bookshops and libraries, and go from there. Thanks again.

Any advice on what to read? I'm thinking of working my way through Dumas and Sabatini. Does anyone have any opinions on the highs and lows of their various works? And are there any other writers or books you could recomend? My knowledge of the genre kind of stops after these two authors. nikolai.

I remember when the Fellowship of the Ring came out, to pretty wide popular and critical acclaim, there was talk about how Fantasy was the next big thing in movies and it was going to trigger the production other films. Now, what happened? Have there been any of them? are any of them in the...

Yes it is. Thanks for posting it, I thought I'd respond as everyone else has ignored it but it's worth talking about. What are your thoughts on PKD adaptations? It seems a lot of them are just buying concepts to hang a movie around. From what I remember Minority Report isn't a very faithful...

The magazine started in 1923. People (Lovecraft for example) were certainly writing weird fiction, and calling it weird fiction, before this.