I barely use Tumblr and have more to do with WordPress, but it looks as if they are getting married:
https://staff.tumblr.com/post/186963195515/hello-tumblr-today-tumblrs-owner-verizon

Also posted at https://sir-guinglain.dreamwidth. ( Read more... )

Dialogue for the old and new fans...

From Planet of the Spiders part one, as it might be re-edited ( Read more... )

( Spoilers! )

The death of Richard, sixth Earl Grey, on 10 September was marked by an obituary in the Telegraph which seemed too respectable. There was much about his activity in parliament as a prominent Liberal peer, his advocacy for small businesses and dutiful observing of elections in Zimbabwe, but surely there was another aspect to his career which they ( Read more... )

I've shared this picture, which should be visible on the other side of this link elsewhere. It shows an article from DWIFC Magazine issue 2, published by the Doctor Who International Fan Club, back in May 1976, in which one Peter Capaldi praised the creativity and integrity of Bernard Lodge, title sequence designer for the first seventeen years of ( Read more... )

I do so appreciate headlines which describe so accurately and sympathetically the detailed work which goes into advanced scientific research:

Nasa's Curiosity rover prepares to zap Martian rocks

Also posted at http://sir-guinglain.dreamwidth.org/533551.html.

( Thoughts on Mali )

You might think that the holders of commercial rights in The Hobbit would be more flexible with long-established businesses whose cultural, social and economic context is not that of the film and whose presence attests to the influence of Tolkien's work on the people of this and other countries; but no...

BBC News: Hobbit pub in Southampton ( Read more... )

Not quite one of wellinghall's 'Tolkien slept here' posts:

The Return of the King to Saudi Arabia

Who says fantasy isn't relevant?

( Trek and LOTR-related New Year's Honours )