So, how long until Peter Jackson reshoots the Shelob scenes with her as a giant, clawed cave-spider dangling somewhere in the tunnels, waiting to pluck tasty little hobbitses and eats them, leaving behind only the Precioussss...

"You know what doesn't evolve? Fire. It is created."

"Ahhh! Woooh! What's happening? Who am I? Why am I here? What's my purpose in life? What do I mean by who am I? Okay okay, calm down calm down get a grip now. Ooh, this is an interesting sensation. What is it? Its a sort of tingling in my... well I suppose I better start finding names for things. Lets call it a...…

Relative to pizza-flavored Cinnabons, yes.

I'm sorry. I cracked up halfway through your comment when I remembered that this discussion of ancient theology is nested underneath a review of a pizza-flavored Cinnabon...

Not to be a complete and total naysayer, after all, science demanded that someone try this out, but I'd wager that if you're already in the vicinity of a Cinnabon, you're probably no more than a quarter of a food court away from a Sbarro or a Rocky Rococo's. Why not get real pizza and then, after deluding yourself…

I don't know if that's a typo or what, but I really like "You're doing 's work", as though discussing some absent, nameless, perhaps simply forgotten, deity. There's a certain class to it. Work in the fact that the space between any two words could be conceived of as a silent prayer to , and you've got yourself the…

"Until today, you never knew you wanted a LEGO..."

http://youtu.be/ These are hardly rules on how your creation should work. No one's saying you can't write fantasy unless the magic involves waving your wand in a figure-8 and saying "Abra Cadabra". These questions are there for creators of fantasy novels so they can create magic that is creatively consistent and…

Probably less difficult than you expect, but more difficult to get away with...

I love me some A&A as much as the next...next...next, next, next, next, next guy (I can't say I've met more than a handful of people who actually can get into A&A), but once you get past "Setup'll probably be about half an hour," I don't think it's got anything on the friendship destroying power of Diplomacy. How can…

"In my experience, Risk is a board game that erodes friendships (only slightly more quickly than Settlers of Catan)"

So, sounds like they captured the feel of the novels pretty well then?

I marble at your punmanship.

Well-played, sir. Well-played.

I will posit the competing, or perhaps complementary, hypothesis of the great mathemetician, Harry Nilsson, that one is the loneliest number that you'll ever do.

"Ostensibly for a game of Risk..."

When you play the Game of the Game of Thrones, you either win, or your proxy dies. There is no middle ground.

As soon as my Time Machine is finished and my old-timey-illustration skills are up to snuff, I'm going to seed the turn of the last century with images of what the twenty-first actually looks like. Oh, I'll be the subject of much derisive laughter when people see my illustrations pop up in Popular Science or…

Gotham City-State? I could see it... and I like it.