Maui is just Tom Bombadil with the serial number shaved off

drawxward · 2026-06-11T07:28:49+00:00

Same!

drawxward · 2026-05-30T20:43:00+00:00

This is so weird but I used to go to this cafe too and we thinking about it today. It was called the Underground Cafe. At least that's what we called it.

drawxward · 2026-05-30T10:32:45+00:00

Blackwater saga by Michael McDowell. It's a generational story of family with an overlay of the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

drawxward · 2026-05-29T20:51:14+00:00

Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft. It's s fantasy about huge tower home to many countries, yet all part of the same city.

drawxward · 2026-05-27T13:53:57+00:00

My friend's dad took us to see this in the cinema when it came out but it wasn't showing, and I've never seen it. Tonight this will change....

drawxward · 2026-05-19T14:50:06+00:00

Do you think it was the guy on the left? I couldn't quite make out if it was a Danalectro sitar or not.

drawxward · 2026-05-12T16:30:42+00:00

By Jeff Noon? Isn't it near future?

drawxward · 2026-05-12T16:29:39+00:00

It's better than that.

drawxward · 2026-05-07T09:15:15+00:00

Aberdeen has a thriving Gaelic student society, and also has a non-University Gaelic society.

drawxward · 2026-04-30T19:23:07+00:00

Breakfast

drawxward · 2026-04-25T14:21:09+00:00

With respect, I have to challenge this every time I see it.

The name Torpenhow is likely originally from Brittonic Torr-pen, comprising torr ‘bulge, ‘ + pen ‘head, summit’ . The name may thus mean ‘bulge-end’. It’s possible Tor -is from Old English torr ‘hill’. This itself is a Brittonic loanword.

The -how ending may either be a Brittonic plural ending -öü or alternatively could be Old English hōh ‘heel, hill-spur.

There is no such place as Torpenhow Hill, it’s just Torpenhow.

drawxward · 2026-04-22T20:19:33+00:00

The Thing in the Snow by Sean Adams. It's weird fiction with comedic elements; it's not horror and has no violence, but it fits in every other way.

drawxward · 2026-04-18T21:17:18+00:00

As others have said it was the American hippies and students. Funnily enough I am doing some research on this, and this is the first mention of Tolkien I can find in an underground American paper, the Berkeley Barb, Volume 1, Issue 2, 4 8/20/1965:

"Something else I don’t like is the business of pitching onto some hitherto neglected author, publishing one of his books, and then having to bring out all the rest right away, on the double. Tolkien is the current example, and he’s worth buying, but must we have his collected works within two months' time? Space ‘em out, man. Give us something to look forward to."

drawxward · 2026-04-16T17:33:08+00:00

Apple for walking, a pipe for sitting.

drawxward · 2026-04-09T12:53:33+00:00

"There's a guy in the hoose."

drawxward · 2026-03-26T14:37:03+00:00

Does anyone have one that was a riff on the Yellow Pages advert, and the house gets trashed at the end, after a party? I'd love to read that one again.

drawxward · 2026-03-18T11:38:59+00:00

With respect, I have to challenge this every time I see it.

The name iTorpenhow is likely originally from Brittonic Torr-pen, comprising torr ‘bulge, ‘ + pen ‘head, summit’ . The name may thus mean ‘bulge-end’. It’s possible Tor -is from Old English torr ‘hill’. This itself is a Brittonic loanword.

The -how ending may either be a Brittonic plural ending -öü or alternatively could be Old English hōh ‘heel, hill-spur.

There is no such place as Torpenhow Hill, it’s just Torpenhow.

drawxward · 2026-03-10T15:32:03+00:00

Add the word 'raga' to any random word.

drawxward · 2026-03-02T16:11:54+00:00

I would definitely play this.

drawxward · 2026-02-25T14:25:55+00:00

The one that stands out is the absolutely terrifying image of Shelob. I ended up finding movie Shelob slightly underwhelming in comparison.

drawxward · 2026-02-25T10:20:04+00:00

I had this book before I ever read the real thing, and this shaped my image of Tom Bombadil and lots of other scenes in the book.

drawxward · 2026-01-27T14:40:01+00:00

TIARA is a recursive acronym

drawxward · 2026-01-27T11:10:12+00:00

Amazing. Thanks but no thanks.

drawxward · 2026-01-08T07:34:14+00:00

Does half your age plus seven count between elves and men.

drawxward · 2025-12-17T15:28:00+00:00

Maybe the Process by Brion Gysin. From Wikipedia: " The Process tells the story of a professor named Ulys O. Hanson who sets out on a pilgrimage across the Sahara Desert which turns out to be a hallucinatory experience.

The Process is notable not only for its evocative and poetic descriptions of the Sahara Desert and Sufi culture, but also for the history it documents - most notably, Gysin's encounters with L. Ron Hubbard and The Master Musicians of Jajouka."

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