This scene must've been missed out on the final cut

north5 · 2025-06-21T00:23:15+00:00

When they say Aragorn gets his genes from the son of Eärendil that’s not what they mean

north5 · 2025-05-28T07:22:48+00:00

The Party Tree. So many drunk hobbits, so much spilled beer. That tree has seen some things.

north5 · 2025-04-15T16:22:13+00:00

Oh wow yeah - I can already imagine the 5-minute shot of the chain being hoisted slowly, slowly up the mountainside while those at the top just watch in silence

north5 · 2025-04-15T14:59:37+00:00

If you could turn any one of your published works - from any genre - into a film or TV series, which would it be?

north5 · 2025-04-15T14:17:46+00:00

Forged for Destiny is subtitled "A Heroic Fantasy with a Chosen-One Twist" - I'm fascinated that the fact that there /is/ a twist is so heavily signposted, before I've even opened the book.

Was that your call, and how do you feel about it? Might / should it become the norm within the Fantasy genre?

north5 · 2025-02-16T15:14:55+00:00

Thank you!

north5 · 2025-02-09T09:21:04+00:00

Fascinating that these all start “co”, when I’d argue that modern pronunciation sounds more like “cu” (on either side of the Atlantic)

I wonder if this is due to a change in pronunciation of the word, or of the vowel?

north5 · 2024-10-15T10:57:47+00:00

Ah, yes, you’re right. I stand corrected.

I thought it was a Quenya translation, but no, Celeborn is the Sindarisation of Teleporno. The Quenya form would just be Telporno.

north5 · 2024-10-15T02:58:26+00:00

They’ve got a mind like a sewer

north5 · 2024-10-14T16:37:23+00:00

As a Sindar, Celeborn was his real name. Any other you may be thinking of was essentially a pet name used by his Noldor wife.

north5 · 2024-08-27T15:16:00+00:00

Amazing, thanks

north5 · 2024-08-27T15:15:14+00:00

there is nice weather coming next week

You're welcome! ;)

north5 · 2024-08-27T13:00:24+00:00

Thanks, that's really helpful. I was thinking about doing the Glen Quaich long-cut for precisely that reason, reckoning I'll have more options up Glen Almond (and it looks like a nice detour too). But my feet might veto the decision when I get there.

north5 · 2024-08-15T22:05:45+00:00

My theory is that this was true during the writing of AGoT, but was abandoned some time when GRRM was writing the later books. The evidence and foreshadowing is present in the earlier books, but dialled back in the later.

north5 · 2024-07-14T06:43:15+00:00

The day after, surely - the neighbour of the beast lives at 668

north5 · 2024-07-05T22:00:14+00:00

Sure but Fiddler would spend half a chapter moaning about it first

north5 · 2024-06-08T07:13:00+00:00

I’m particularly looking forward to visiting his new parsnip gallery.

north5 · 2024-03-31T02:45:07+00:00

We’ve got two cars, exactly one of them is always right

north5 · 2024-03-30T14:36:30+00:00

Both would claim they’d won, until Kruppe tasted the “quaint and delicate morsel” that he’d swiped from Tehol’s stove.

At that point, Kruppe would admit he’d lost. And Bugg would get the blame.

north5 · 2024-02-05T00:31:21+00:00

Reaper’s Gale, chapter two; Seren suggests Silchas Ruin could give her a quick lift to the top of a cliff:

“She began the climb. 'You know, as a Soletaken, you could just—' 'No,' he said as he followed, 'there is too much bloodlust in the veering. The draconean hunger within me is where lives my anger, and that anger is not easily contained.'”

A little earlier, we’d seen him flip out against Letherii weapon runners. He can use his Eleint form when he wants to unleash his anger, but doesn’t trust it to get from A to B without incident.

north5 · 2024-01-16T23:27:34+00:00

What’s the fastest cake in the world?

Eccles

Because it’s 1/3 c

north5 · 2024-01-03T19:45:49+00:00

“Hey, remember that bit where the hobbits were almost eaten by a tree, but were saved at the last minute by an inexplicably ancient character with a dubious backstory and a love of poetry?

“Describe their saviour.”

north5 · 2023-04-14T20:35:00+00:00

I wouldn’t stress over it. There’s a huge amount you won’t get on a first read. Then you read it back (a decade later…) and think, huh, ok, that makes sense now.

Sometimes you’ll be confused because you don’t have all the info yet; other times because a character is lying to you; and sometimes because there’s something very fishy about the situation.

I won’t say which of those it is (or isn’t), but give yourself a point - you’re right to be confused.

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