Terry Pratchett is crazy... but in a good way.

[Pbartender]

Fark.com | As if he wasn't cool enough already, now we learn that Terry Pratchett's first act after being knighted was to forge his own sword... Out of meteorites

...the author dug up 81kg of ore and smelted it in the grounds of his house, using a makeshift kiln built from clay and hay and fuelled with damp sheep manure...

...also said he had thrown in "several pieces of meteorites — thunderbolt iron, you see — highly magical, you’ve got to chuck that stuff in whether you believe in it or not"...

...After days of hammering the metal into bars, he took it to a blacksmith, whom he helped to shape it into a blade, which was finished with silverwork...​

 

[Rykion]

Nothing crazy about that at all. You need magic metal and silver to guarantee the weapon will work on just about anything.

 

[Tewligan]

He's also crazy in a bad way, what with the Alzheimer's and all.

 

[jonesy]

He's doing pretty well still:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeH_YiX4iZg]YouTube - Sir Terry Pratchett Interview: Going Postal[/ame]

 

[TarionzCousin]

...After days of hammering the metal into bars, he took it to a blacksmith, whom he helped to shape it into a blade, which was finished with silverwork...[/INDENT]

Was the blade tempered in the blacksmith's blood? 'Cause that is a whole 'nother kind of crazy!

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

Yes, even his awesome is awesome. I think one of the comments on the news article summed it up nicely:

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Epic old dude is epic
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[surfarcher]

Terry is teh awesome, ftw.

If you watched the docu on his alzheimers you'll also realise he's a real fighter. I hope he wins, somehow... But that particular disease? Not many do.