The Silver Key

"Wonder had gone away, and he had forgotten that all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other." --H.P. Lovecraft, The Silver Key

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Some cool bits rediscovered while re-reading The Lord of the Rings

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So in case it's not already obvious, I'm currently in the middle of re-reading J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings . I'm ...
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Monday, August 25, 2008

Free will in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: Choice and persuasion in a fine balance

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Note: I was driven to write the following (lengthy) essay out of my struggles with a simple question: Did Frodo succumb to the One Ring’s ov...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Hail to the King, baby: Army of Darkness still holds up

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A couple days ago I re-watched Army of Darkness with a buddy of mine (Scott of Scott's Thoughts ). Scott had never seen the film previo...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Heavy metal heresies

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Courtesy of my heavy metal (electric) eye in the sky, Falze, here are two recent items of metal interest too juicy to pass up. 1. Dio-slaggi...
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Monday, August 11, 2008

The Hobbit: Awakening the Took in us

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Note: This is the first of a few essays I plan to write about the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. It’s hard to express the impact Tolkien’s writing...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Three reasons I'm staying out of the 4E fray

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So for all the hype, wailing, gnashing of teeth, criticism, and praise I've seen heaped upon the newest version of Dungeons and Dragons,...
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Monday, August 4, 2008

Fargo Rock City is hair metal heartache

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Give Chuck Klosterman a lot of credit: It takes talent to write a book that is so compulsively readable, intensely personal, and relentless...
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Brian Murphy
Marketing professional by day; skald in the Hall of Fire by night; and member of the S.H.I.E.L.D.W.A.L.L. Author of Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery (2020, Pulp Hero Press). Essayist and reviewer for numerous web and print-based fantasy and sword-and-sorcery publications, including The Cimmerian, Black Gate, Tales from the Magician's Skull, Mythprint, REH: Two-Gun Raconteur, The Dark Man, DMR Blog, Skelos, and SFFaudio.com. Two-time Robert E. Howard Foundation award winner: The Atlantean (Outstanding Achievement/Book for Flame and Crimson) and The Venarium (emerging scholar in REH studies).
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