Monthly Archives - September 2022

The Rings of Power episodes 1&2: Melkor Makes a TV Show

You would have to have had the hubris of Morgoth himself to take on this project.As a writer, I would have been terrified of it. . If the producers had come to me to finish the Unfinished Tales by Tolkien plus some original pastiche based on the Appendixes,  I wouldn't have touched it. A professional screenwriter said he would have told them.  “Look, I’ll require two years of prep time before I write word one.  I’ll need to completely immerse myself in...

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Guest Post by Hollywood Legend Geode

REPOST: I'm not getting Space 1999 part three up tonight. So, I'm bumping a post by Hollywood Legend Geode.The Dark Herald will be back tomorrow, today’s post is by our special guest blogger, Geode.I am going to kill my agent.  It’s going to be long, slow, and intensely excruciating. I am going to quantum project him a thousand years into the past with special instructions to my younger self.How did I, Hollywood legend Geode, end up in something...

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