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    Tolkien fanfic writer sues Tolkien estate over copyright

    Am I the only one wondering how B&N ever decided to sell the book? I mean, surely someone must have asked about copyright?
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    Tolkien fanfic writer sues Tolkien estate over copyright

    Or the Iron Tower Trilogy. Which, if I remember rightly, came about because the author wanted to write a sequel to LotR, but didn't get permission.
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    24 years!

    Congrats! And thanks for everything - not least for providing a friendly hangout where so many diverse and often opinionated geeks from all over the world get along with, by and large, very little drama or unpleasantness.
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    Tolkien fanfic writer sues Tolkien estate over copyright

    If I remember rightly from back when this was first in the news, he was suing because RoP supposedly copied elements from his book. From the blurb, I gather that he writes about the history of the Rings in a prologue or something. Of course he still stole that from Tolkien's writings, so...
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    Tolkien fanfic writer sues Tolkien estate over copyright

    From the blurb, it's even worse that the Iron Tower by Dennis Mckiernan. I mean, at least he understood sentence structure and commas. Even though his not-Gimli was forever "casting his hood over his face" whenever he got bad news.
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    NASA has sent you to Mars. You will be the first human to step on Martian soil. What are your first words as you take that historic step?

    "Aaargh, help, help, it's eating me! Get it off! Haha, just kidding, there's no-one here. Surprise."
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    Your Favorite Holiday Special

    Blackadder's Christmas Carol, and if we're including New Year in the holiday season, Blackadder Back and Forth.
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    Age for Hitchhiker’s Guide First Read?

    I caught several episodes of the radio show when they were first broadcast. My mother taped as many as she could, and I listened to those as well. So probably in the 5-6 age range. Read the books not long after. Prefer the radio show though. ETA: the radio show was released on audio cassette...
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    What would you spend $5,000 on?

    €4,600.
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    TSR The Full & Glorious History of NuTSR

    There are very few people called Dioltach around my way.
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    Retro Video Game Scam

    Sadly, no.
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    Retro Video Game Scam

    The wife and I have an arcade machine in the living room. It's been upgraded with a modern screen and CPU and has sixty of the old classics. Pacman, Donkey Kong, Dig Dug, Galaxian, Space Invaders, Time Pilot, you name it. Great fun.
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    Most Iconic SF/F Princesses

    Curious how we're six pages in and no-one has mentioned Empress Savina from the original D&D movie...
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    Most Iconic SF/F Princesses

    How could I forget her?!
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    Most Iconic SF/F Princesses

    Based on media from my formative years: Eowyn Leia Eilonwy Bonus: not necessarily aristocracy, but a high priestess: Tenar/Arha
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    Filoni got a promotion at Lucasfilm

    Sometimes talking to yourself is the only way to have a proper conversation.
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    Most iconic spaceships?

    I probably had exactly the same one! Late 1970s, early 1980s? I wonder what happened to that model.
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