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sacnoth s scriptorium skip to main skip to sidebar sacnoth s scriptorium thursday january 29 2026 tacoma dune so we ve just rerurned from a trip to tacoma a place we rarely visit although it s not far away we had a good time getting a break from the usual daily routine a highlight was a long walk along the seafront i assumed that dune park featured sand dunes and it does but its focus turned out to be frank herbert s dune i had not known that tacoma was herbert s home town https www parkstacoma gov tacomas real life dune recommended john r current reading a whole bunch of books in various stages of unfinishedment posted by john d rateliff at 2 11 pm no comments tuesday january 20 2026 jean rabe sorry to hear today of the death of jean rabe jean was head of the r p g a when i first came on board at tsr in october 1987 i think it was my first contacts there were actually through the book department via friend jim lowder and the rpga then the domain of jean ably assisted by skip williams that first discussion with jean of a job at tsr didn t pan out due to my a living in milwausee at the time and b not having a car instead i helped out with various tournaments and the like e g providing sets of pregenerated characters for sanctioned events a few months later i was more successful joining the r d department as a game editor along with fellow new fish rich baker designer thomas reid editor and a few weeks later tim beach rpga through the chaos that was what we might call mid period tsr jean ruled over her own fiefdom acting pretty much independently of r d e g the living city raven s bluff project if i rember rightly eventually the comings and goings get conflated she had moved over into r d and later still was one of those who decided not to follow tsr to the west coast if i had to sum up jean in a word it would be kindness rest in peace posted by john d rateliff at 9 15 pm no comments wednesday january 14 2026 so how easy is it to spot the common thread in this list of names andria heyday anne brown karen boomgarden dori watri julia martin jean rabie barb young sue weinlein carrie bebris posted by john d rateliff at 6 02 pm 1 comment friday january 2 2026 2026 calendar so another year another tolkien calender a while back i went back and sorted them by year it made quite a pile and the shift of style from year to year is interesting my favorite after those by tolkien himself esp the early ones is the 1994 one by michael kaluta which had a finnish look to me which is not to say there have not been some god awful examples over the years the hildebrants come to mind this year 2026 features another by alan lee who has a distinctive style providing a sort of continuity lee is not only good but had the advantage that christopher liked him my own vote for an artist contempory if now somewhat long in the tooth to illustrate jrrt is thomas canty whose art reminds me strongly of art nouveau and art deco many of his pieces look like stained glass windows underrated other than that i saw the bovadium fragments on the shelves of a mainstream bookstore barnes noble today which makes me think we re approaching the saturation point for works by tolkien i intend to enjoy it while i can current reading five books the least interesting of whch is a a milne s once upon a time 1922 an attempt by the pooh author to write a fairy tale for adults milne had many talents but it turns out writing a book like this one is not one of them this sarcastic nudge nudge wink wink of a book deserves all the strictures tolkien made on milne in ofs john r posted by john d rateliff at 9 10 pm no comments wednesday december 3 2025 a middle earth sea shanty so a bit belatedly thanks to the friend who pointed me towards this link https www youtube com watch v zmwaqvqgx0u it s fun to see a version of earendil s story in sea shanty style as opposed to the filk sinc y style of most such performances fun if you like this sort of thing which i do on the whole john r posted by john d rateliff at 12 38 pm no comments tuesday november 18 2025 an eight word review of pullman s 672 page new book they paved paradise and put up a parking lot posted by john d rateliff at 6 29 pm 1 comment tuesday september 30 2025 an annotated gods of pegana so yesterday i came across a new edition of dunsany s first book the gods of pegana original edition 1905 this edition 2012 what i cd put together about it from some quick online searching was a bit uncertain but here s what i cd find on it so far put together by a robert j schulenburg whose work is otherwise unknown to me it is said to be the first book in a series to be known as the reader s library of inspirational books i have not yet tracked down any other volumes in the series whether this has any linkage with dolly parton s inspiration library i can t say yet this edition for the kindle includes promises it includes additional material an introduction to the series the biographical essay lord dunsany badass patriarch of high fantasy an original article dunsany s chess detailing the rules for the chess variant created by the author high quality formatting and interactive table of contents for kindle users future editions of this volume will include and will be added to my purchase free of charge the essay writing a bible scripture as narrative and fiction and why we would confuse it for fantasy table of influenced influences a lexicon of gods and prophets in the peganan cosmology the chapters in summary a distillation of the themes and messages of each book a timeline of the peganan cosmology a map of the cosmology of pegana hiqh quality original illustrations i have to say that this looks like a random assortment for things connected with dunsany i ve ordered a copy and shd have more information about the book after the book arrives john r current reading the secret commonwealth just out by phillip pullman a re reading and a disappointment and a complete collection of short stories by aleister crowley of short stories featuring simon iff his psychic detectiv re reading not as good the second time around posted by john d rateliff at 4 19 pm no comments older posts home subscribe to comments atom john d rateliff my website is here events 2018 kalamazoo medieval congress may 2018 blog archive 2026 4 january 4 tacoma dune jean rabe so how easy is it to spot the common thread in 2026 calendar 2025 16 december 1 november 1 september 2 august 3 july 1 may 2 april 1 march 1 february 1 january 3 2024 67 december 5 november 1 october 11 september 5 august 5 july 1 june 2 may 9 april 5 march 7 february 4 january 12 2023 113 december 7 november 8 october 10 september 10 august 8 july 11 june 10 may 8 april 10 march 14 february 6 january 11 2022 132 december 13 november 12 october 10 september 16 august 12 july 9 june 8 may 6 april 7 march 19 february 11 january 9 2021 161 december 11 november 9 october 17 september 14 august 14 july 13 june 11 may 11 april 10 march 14 february 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