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

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Rest in Peace, Nicol Williamson

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The actor who gave us the best wizard ever put to screen has died: Rest in Peace, Nicol Williamson, age 75. His son has a few moving words t...
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Monday, January 23, 2012

Why The Lord of the Rings films work: How I learned to stop worrying and appreciate Peter Jackson (or, a review of Tolkien on Film)

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It’s easy to pick apart The Lord of the Rings films on the basis of textual fidelity. Anyone can watch Peter Jackson’s movies with a copy o...
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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Real vs. the Unreal, Worlds Other Than Our Own, and the Starting Line of Fantasy

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Whenever discussions of fantasy fiction arise, the question of “which came first?” inevitably follows. Newbies mistakenly think that J.R.R. ...
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Friday, January 13, 2012

The Name of the Wind: The Emperor may have clothes, but they don’t fit me

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What do you want out of your fantasy? Exotic places? People different than the ones you know? High language? The clangor of battle? Wonders ...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Some new books received: Styrbiorn the Strong, Tolkien on Film, and more

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Purchased with an Amazon giftcard I received for Christmas, here are some new books that I'm really looking forward to reading and revie...
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Thursday, January 5, 2012

Tolkien’s Nobel Snub

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The 1961 nominations for the Nobel prize in literature apparently included The Lord of the Rings , and it seems Tolkien was dismissed rather...
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

A Texan tale-spinner in J.R.R. Tolkien's court

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I had my first book review published in Mythprint , the journal of the Mythopoeic Society. The Mythopoeic Society is an international organi...
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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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