At the time of the 2001 awards, this site had a few dozen readers and the Maryland Terrapins were getting blown out of the Orange Bowl. Things have changed for the better! This year’s format is as follows: New categories will be marked with an asterisk. Repeat categories will have last year’s winner in parentheses. [...]
About my item on Tolkien as British mythology, and why the Ring saga is so land-locked, Patrick Nielsen Hayden quickly wrote:
What do you mean, “where are all the boats”? In Tolkien’s mythology, sailing is how you get to Heaven, more or less. Sounds reasonably English to me.
Mariners are a Big Deal in Arda, [...]
Eric Mauro e-mails about Know-Nothings, neo-confederates and other disagreeable people:
I’ve been wondering about that as well, after the Lott affair. Lincoln would have got nowhere being a total abolitionist, but then again there were abolitionists at the time. This is a big problem with revisionism. If you believe in the essence of electoral politics, that [...]
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