Thank you so much, Clare!

I saw your name there and look forward to reading it. I just finished reading last year's Year's Work.

I am not at all surprised. I figured that the free shipping would not apply to international and/or transatlantic deliveries, but I didn't see anything that said so. I wish it did.

I am picturing Silvio Dante as Butterbur.

Gingerprof: "You shall not passive!"

Only those born in the 18th century may use it.

How about the double passive?

"It cannot be attempted to be seen."

Who you calling the void?

Bradley belongs in the void, with Melkor and her husband.

I hope you enjoy it

I like it. He is subjected to increasingly lengthy bouts of therapy after each new arrival in Mandos.

That sense of liberation reminds me of Asimov's story, "The Feeling of Power."

Years ago I sat at an airport writing something on a yellow legal pad. After a bit I realized that almost everyone around me was typing on laptops. I kept expecting someone to leap up and denounce me as a witch.

This is what reading in public is coming to.

Now I am octopodal Minoan Marines!

Good riddance

Yes, and an octopus vase. But it's an awesome nightlight.

Later versions, like those in the Silmarillion and the Children of Húrin, are more honest, declaring both names and both identities, and so become more elegiac than horrifying.