July 4, 2016Fantasy The Silmarillion Awards Voting, Phase 2 The first round of voting for the Silmarillion Awards has drawn to a close, and what a round it was for those […]
June 20, 2016June 20, 2016Fantasy Announcing the Silmarillion Awards Welcome to the first ever Silmarillion Awards! What are the Silmarillion Awards, you ask? Here’s an overview written up by Jenelle Schmidt, […]
June 6, 2016Fantasy, Geeky Stuff, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Superheroes, Throwback Week The Phases of Becoming a Geek Becoming a geek is a unique process. Some may come to it early on, practically born into a hobbit family living in […]
June 2, 2016Characters, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction If Lord of the Rings Characters Had Modern Names What’s in a name? More than you might think. Pick a book you’re familiar with, change the character names, and it suddenly […]
May 30, 2016Characters, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction 9 Ocean-Inspired Quotes from Fantasy I apologize for being absent last week. But I have a legitimate excuse—I was on vacation. In Florida. At the BEACH! Which […]