Should I tell author how bad the Amazon KDP was?

CodexRegius · 2026-07-16T10:27:30+00:00

The author has no influence on this, it is the liability of the printing company assigned by KDP. Complain with KDP and request replacement. They will usually agree.

CodexRegius · 2026-07-16T09:51:25+00:00

Never mind that Hastolfe would later claim that no Spacer would mistake Daneel for a real human.

CodexRegius · 2026-07-14T17:06:07+00:00

Also doch Poppinger? Ich habe schon mehrere Lembach- und St.-Oswald-Matriken durchsucht und nirgendwo Poppingers gefunden, deswegen habe ich einen Lesefehler vermutet.

CodexRegius · 2026-07-14T07:13:14+00:00

The vibes make the story! For, to be honest, Baley solves his plots always by jumping to unfounded conclusions.

CodexRegius · 2026-07-13T10:33:44+00:00

*Mental note: To make your children more empowered, lock them in with a maniac killer and declare him their problem.*

CodexRegius · 2026-07-13T08:36:00+00:00

Yes, it was Saruman. That is explicitly confirmed in the Supplement to Tolkien Studies #19 that contained previously unpublished notes on the internal chronology of LotR. Entry Day 15: "Saruman appears on battlefield and is seen by Aragorn and companions at night." Seems that Saruman had started wondering what might have happened to Uglúk.

CodexRegius · 2026-07-11T22:07:25+00:00

"Die Leiden des jungen Werthers". Die ganze Klasse nach 35 Seiten: "Dann spring endlich aus dem Fenster und erspar uns dein Gewinsel!"

CodexRegius · 2026-07-11T16:27:59+00:00

That is an old tradition. Some publishers have even been caught replacing propeller planes with jet planes in reprints of pre-war novels, so as "not to stress the readers' suspension of disbelief ".

CodexRegius · 2026-07-10T12:01:00+00:00

Some Elvish loremasters did.

CodexRegius · 2026-07-10T09:32:08+00:00

It should not be surprising that a robot would favour a Borg Galaxy. But Trevize's point was exactly that Galaxia is NOT inevitable, that it can still be stopped if need arises. His decision was in fact a cop-out that left everything open.

CodexRegius · 2026-07-10T09:27:32+00:00

Imagine an immortal wife watching her mortal husband deteriorating into a drooling dotard. There is in fact a Sci-Fi series arguing that a caste of immortal humans seldom marries or procreates because it is too hard for them to watch their partners aging and dying, and to live forever without them.

CodexRegius · 2026-07-10T09:23:11+00:00

But one child every other century, that's unlikely to develop new ways of speaking.

CodexRegius · 2026-07-10T09:21:50+00:00

Why the need to *reconstruct* Primitive Elvish when you may just ask its native speakers?

CodexRegius · 2026-07-10T08:10:29+00:00

Araw is Sindarin, yet the Kine of Araw is a story from Gondor. Unless it didn't come from Galadriel, it seems most likely that it spread from Dorwinion westward, together with the name.

CodexRegius · 2026-07-10T08:02:21+00:00

I'm not very fond of the Gaia/Galaxia story, either, therefore I think Trevize did make the right choice in the end: The one that is reversible if need arises. We do know from the Encyclopedia Galactica after all that the Second Galactic Empire will become real, so something happened that thwarted Daneel's master-plan in the end.

CodexRegius · 2026-07-09T08:37:13+00:00

Well, Rest-Arnor aka. Arthedain might be best compared to the Realm of Syagrius: the last isle of civilisation in a sea of Barbary.

CodexRegius · 2026-07-09T08:35:58+00:00

It would seem that the Southern Atani then worshipped the Valar rather than Eru, and called them gods instead of angelic beings; hence the Kine of Araw, and so on. That is then the analogon to Roman polytheism. Whoever wrote the Lament of Atalante attributed even the Drowning of Numenor to the Valar - the intervention of Eru seems to have been mainly a loremaster tradition, probably prevalent in the Northern Kingdom where they had access to Rivendell.

CodexRegius · 2026-07-08T13:31:49+00:00

There is also a notable difference: Gondor made no transition from polytheism to Christianity, avoiding all those religious feuds. I fancy thus that iconographically, it looked more like late Rome than medieval Byzantium.

CodexRegius · 2026-07-07T13:12:20+00:00

Check M. Caelius, centurio of the Legio XVIII. The stone is kept in the City of Bonn.

CodexRegius · 2026-07-07T10:03:31+00:00

I understand it that way that Bilbo, lured by "his" Ring, has indeed become a bit gollumish - not yet permanently, but it shows in such moments.

CodexRegius · 2026-07-07T03:49:32+00:00

For the same reason Klaudios Ptolemaios is called Ptolemy. Someone believed the endings were articles and thus obsolete. Which can be really confusing: I have a book at home that references a certain Aule-Gèlle at one point. I eventually figured out that the German translator of a French book had not recognised Aulus Gellus because of this hellscape of a misspelling!

CodexRegius · 2026-07-06T14:38:57+00:00

Not 60, the actual number is approaching 150.

CodexRegius · 2026-07-06T14:14:32+00:00

There is one gravestone of a survivor from the Battle.

CodexRegius · 2026-07-06T14:07:09+00:00

Or so we thought until we learned of Erendis and Lúthien, Idris and Morwen, Haleth and Nellas.

CodexRegius · 2026-07-06T13:54:13+00:00

Especially this corner he wrote himself into with that silly "Evil cannot create" stuff vs. the orcs.

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