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* The World More Sorcerous has become the extreme past of Earth, roughly 150 million years ago. Hundreds of thousands of years in the future, one of humanity's descendant species, accompanied by other kindred, time travels there to start over. Their civilization lasts at least an epoch, but all...

The full story of what eventually became known as the Anachronic Calamity may never be known. Even its starting point is debated, with some assigning primacy to the journey of the Purple Haze through the Pillars of Eternity, and others to the manipulations of Jessica Drummond that resulted in...

Or so we've been led to believe.

Shar Zahad Thousands of years in the future, when Earth-descended humanity has joined their off-world cousins and spread the boundaries of known space even further, when Earth itself has been largely forgotten, there is a world which remembers more of their history than many human settlements...

Uesugi Kenshin/上杉 謙信 Uesugi Kenshin (1530–1578) was a Japanese magnate, or daimyo, who was born as Nagao Kagetora of the Nagao clan and, after adoption into the Uesugi clan, ruled Echigo Province in the Sengoku period of Japan. One of the most powerful daimyo of the period, he was known as the...

I will now destroy, with my own hands, whatever reputation for wisdom and prudence I have heretofore established. Girls und Panzer is awesome. Ignore the absurdities or enjoy them, this is a beautiful meditation on leadership, friendship, and fair play.

All in all, I would not be surprised if he did these things in reaction to being told he must not do these things.

There was something odd about his eyes when he leapt up from his beating. I would need to examine frame by frame to be sure, but his eyes just looked wrong.

When things work out well for people I wouldn't normally like, in their conflicts with people I can't stand, should I be happy ... or suspicious?

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Nope. Franz I (1853-1938), younger brother of Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1840-1929) succeeded his brother on the latter's death and ruled over the principality until his own. At seventy-five, he was roughly two years older than King Charles III.

Watching Episode 3: Galadriel: "Did you say ride?" Narrator: "She was almost as tired of walking everywhere as everyone who read about her walking everywhere was."

... not impossible, as he could easily live to be 88, but not likely. (On the other side, though, "abdication" is a swear word to his family, so.)

I would really rather he not achieve that level of immortality, honestly. What he already has is sufficiently annoying.

I was watching it with interest but not much enthusiasm ... and then the script quoted Bertholt Brecht, and my jaw dropped. That the final act involves Hegelian dialecticism -- thesis and antithesis becoming synthesis -- was also sort of awesome.

There are two schools of thought on that; one of them, as you say, says that he's talking about Narya, where the other notes that "Anor" is the Sindarin for "sun" and concludes that he's referring to the fruit of Laurelin and thus the light of Valinor in general.

If you believe that the Stranger is benevolent, then he may have been trying to warn her. If you believe him to be malevolent, it is possible that he caused the accident so that the harfoots don't go their way before they help him. Or, possibly, there is no causal connection.

Or possibly "the Secret Fire ... the flame of Anor".

So ... that's the Arkenstone in the chest that the Durins are fretting about, right?

Interesting call-forward from Elrond's conversation with Galadriel to the one he will much later have with Arwen. As to the elf children in that first scene ... innocence is not the positive that it once was. It can also be an unawareness of how one can hurt, or be hurt. The scene also sets up...