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So... I have a question which (to me) is kinda important and kinda exciting (or at least the topic is. Have any of you guys read The Mellon Chronicles?? If so, what are your thoughts? Seems to be a pretty famous fanfiction series, but I don't think I've seen it mentioned on here. I'm curious!!

there are numerous science fiction books or movies that deal with time travel, yet, they all face the same problem, the paradoxes of traveling to the past, they try to twist it but more paradoxes emerge. Time travel to the past is not possible according to the laws of physics, and for a very...

I always thought about the burden of immortality, what do you do with your time? In the case of elves, at least they don't (mostly) have the problem of losing their loved ones, but still, tens of thousands of years is a lot of time to fill in. How don't they get bored? I know that elves would...

Anyone get to this point? I'm not a video gamer, but someone said there seem to be references, particularly to the Master Sword sequence, in this recent music video, and wondered if the maker had played it himself: Of course, there's a whole lot more going on there, which I won't go into, but...

Edit: this essay (in a somewhat updated form) has become an appendix to my article “It Always Had Been a Vast Globe...” dedicated to the Round World cosmology in Tolkien’s writings.