Seen on the page of an online Latin dictionary:


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SOOO for the purpose of this month's SWG challenge I am re-reading Humphrey Carpenter's Tolkien biography. (The topic of the challenge is love stories. The muses insist on an essay. Don't ask.) I know I keep saying that, but maybe I haven't yet said it here, so let me put it out here: I really really wish that Tolkien's biography could be turned ( Read more... )

So I volunteered to produce a hand-out for the Grey Camp at Drachenfest and I love and loathe the job in equal measure. I mean, I get to put in such awesome shit like ( Read more... )

Today's XKCD wins my heart for various reasons.
I might consider adopting this approach whenever I hear someone else propagate the "medievals believed the world was flat" myth in the future...

Speaking of The Silmarillion, there's a Silmarillion Fandom Opinion SurveyIt's quite useless, to be honest, as it is extremely limited and only addressing ( Read more... )

Evening news item:
"EU law change turns longest German word obsolete"

Look, I'm German and I'll probably ignore boring legal news read about this law change in the paper tomorrow, but I'm pretty damned sure they won't put it in such an intriguing manner. Law turns longest word obsolete. Awesome. Or not, if you now regret the fact that we lost our ( Read more... )

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Recently, Felix has been experimenting with abbreviations.

Aside from using just one syllable of words that include difficult sounds (such as "Na" for Nase or "Au" for Auge), he has merged words together: "Papamama" for "oh you my parents" was soon shortened into "Mapa" or "Pama".
The logical next step, of course, was to also merge Opa und Oma (" ( Read more... )

Because why write entries I should've written weeks ago when I can waste time on a meme?

Name a fandom you know (or you think) I might know, and I will tell you these things.1. The character I first fell in love with ( Read more... )

Non-Tolkienists probably won't want to know.

So, completely by coincidence and through channels that shall remain unnamed (*cough* dA *cough), today I learned how the Chinese translators of the Silmarillion rendered Maedhros in Chinese, namely, 梅斯罗斯 (mei(2)si(1)luo(2)si(1)Of course, that translates to nothing sensible, just being a rough ( Read more... )

... today's Google logo certainly is one. XD