World Building and Woolgathering

I recently read over the proto-design document for Patrick Stuart’s Goose-Gold and Goblins (see here ). There were elements in it that put ...

These were intended for use with Terrae Vertebrae as Zodiac-cum-Tarot-cum-Pseudo-Jungian-archetypes - nominally the remnants of a defanged P...

On Monday (Monday 13th July, 2020, for posterity) the last episode of Series Four of the BBC Radio serial Tumanbey was broadcast on BBC Rad...

I have in my library a number of old paperbacks with rather fine covers. These do not depict directly the contents of the book, but are rath...

Reading about Chalcidius's commentaries on Plato, I learnt that about a number of alternate names for the planets of the Ptolemaic unive...

Names in Punth are of three sorts. (Seek wider context here and here ). Those of Punthites The Punthites, as a result of the codes ra...

It is the expressed view of the state of Punth that no god or gods exist. The Qryth, if there was any formal tradition of worship in their ...

As part of my ongoing Punth project, I have been building up a lexicon of Punthite phrases. These I have set to match with the classes of Th...

Imagine a country three times the size of Germany, mostly covered by dense bush, with no roads and only two railways, and either sweltering ...

Briefly, two things you may care to take a look at: Firstly, there are recordings of the Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature here . I ha...