tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post5455057536832437948..comments2024-03-28T15:30:09.903-04:00Comments on GROGNARDIA: 130 Years Ago Today ...James Maliszewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00341941102398271464noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-90511213987164319712022-01-04T16:02:36.521-05:002022-01-04T16:02:36.521-05:00Labels are a godsend for digging through blogs, ar...Labels are a godsend for digging through blogs, aren't they?Dick McGeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14521293874696659063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-62033540308120347162022-01-04T11:09:21.907-05:002022-01-04T11:09:21.907-05:00Click the "Tolkien" tag at the bottom of...Click the "Tolkien" tag at the bottom of the post, and they shall all be lain before ye.Alexander Moonbeamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09494274595501051974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-19056015279782242732022-01-03T23:19:16.031-05:002022-01-03T23:19:16.031-05:00"I find it difficult to know what to write on..."I find it difficult to know what to write on occasions like this. Partly, it's because I've already written many posts about Tolkien."<br />Links to those previous posts might be nice.Ruprechthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00139664977453444000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-67614504225685892142022-01-03T21:21:45.686-05:002022-01-03T21:21:45.686-05:00Nice tribute too. Tolkien and D&D have such a...Nice tribute too. Tolkien and D&D have such a weird tortured relationship, and I feel it has been in vogue for sometime now for the hardcore crowd to distance themselves from his work.<br /><br />But is was because my group wanted to so badly walk in Middle Earth and probe it's dark corners that we started playing together around '77-'78. We felt D&D need more Tolkien adherence, not less. Nonetheless, we died in the dungeon in troves and were woefully less heroic, and far more laissez-faire than the principles in Tolkien books.<br /><br />The folks who discovered LotR not as weird underground cult-novels, but through the Jackson movies, seems to be of a different breed altogether.squeenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975523149573452984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-69496151093416785792022-01-03T14:40:13.837-05:002022-01-03T14:40:13.837-05:00You're very kind. Thank you.You're very kind. Thank you.James Maliszewskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00341941102398271464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487871339000666216.post-27743403638985580232022-01-03T14:37:49.734-05:002022-01-03T14:37:49.734-05:00Oh my... I had no idea you had started up the blog...Oh my... I had no idea you had started up the blog again! I ended up here because I referenced your Holmes boxed set readthrough in an oldschool D&D facebook group I'm in. Looks like I have a bit of catching up to do.<br /><br />Just wanted to say two things.<br />1) Really glad to have you back, I loved your blog for years, it got me into the OSR and I haven't looked back since.<br />2) I really enjoyed Dwimmermount. I know it was a tortured development process that drove you away from the scene for years but the final product was wonderful. Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02218364111122137880noreply@blogger.com