Fantasy Art Friday – Half-Brothers

Music Monday – Edge of Night

Frazetta Friday – Thangorodrim edition

Thangorodrim – Ekukanova via Deviantart.

No, I don’t know if Deviantart is the BEST Source for art, it just happens to be the one I used to hang out on and know about.

Frazetta Friday – Numenor edition

Frazetta Friday – Tribal Woad edition

Music Monday

Plug – A Historian’s Take on the Battle of Helm’s Deep

Bret Devereaux has another historical analysis of war in Tolkienian realms. Like all the others he’s done in this series, it’s totally fascinating, nerd-accessible, and also contains this wonderful graphic.

uruk-org-chart — Uruk That Points Swords At Things

Give it a read!

Book Haul

Due to a very generous tip from some people who really oughtn’t’ve, I was able to hit up a bookstore that has been on my list for a long time. So we’re looking at:

Agent of Chaos – Norman Spinrad (never heard of it, looks interesting)
The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien (Needed an extra copy since I’m giving my illustrated edition to my niece. Have offered it to one of the other interns who inexplicably likes the movie.)
The Star Kings – Edmund Hamilton (Don’t have)
Great Science Fiction Adventures – Edmund Hamilton anthology (Don’t have)
The Star of Life – Edmund Hamilton (Don’t have)
The Ginger Star – Leigh Brackett (Never, um, finished)
Roadmarks – Roger Zelazny (Didn’t have)
Warriors of Blood and Dream – Zelazny-edited anthology (It’s got Zelazny’s name on it, it ought to be good, right?)
A Wizard in Bedlam – Christopher Stasheff (Sometimes you just want to spend time with your old friends.)

At least some SF book reviews to appear shortly!