@ReReadingWolfe Believing Severian altered the torture letter is baffling to me. Thecla was arrested for actual treason and send to the Matachin to be tortured to death. What does this person think the letter said before: five light slaps on her bare bum and a stern warning?
@ReReadingWolfe Agree 100% with this.
As regards to the movies, Bakshi LotR > Jackson LotR IMO. I still get hot under the collar about being robbed of a part 2. Rankin & Bass’s Hobbit is amazing, but after Bakshi I can’t watch their Return of the King.
@Evil0Dan@uncle_deluge Just as pass on the lore: in some versions of Exodus from the Long Sun, Horn’s revealing line “I burst into the room” was changed to “Horn burst into the room” because of a real world editor or typesetters confusion. Wolfe was miffed.
@mattyglesias@DKThomp Are you confusing Moore’s movie with “Loose Change”? That was the big “9/11 was an inside job” movie of the time; the one that sparked that whole cottage industry.
@YoDanno Elmore’s art IS D&D for me, as a kid whose first exposure was the Red Box, and then the Endless Quest and DragonLance covers. I aped his line art for all my early characters pics.
@babyYaga4@ReReadingWolfe Muir’s not at Wolfe’s level but superficially Locked Tomb shares much with New Sun: Dying Earth (Galaxy, Universe?); protagonist has another consciousness sharing headspace; brooding, badass, orphaned chosen one raised by monsters.
Locked Tomb more Harry Potter/Warhammer40k tho
@ReReadingWolfe Foremost in my mind now is Finn’s (@Sharp_Sticks) version, with Sev surfing down the beast’s neck like the baddest mofo on planet Urth. I think he’s even saying “groovy” like he’s Ash from Evil Dead/Army of Darkness.