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For anyone interested in reading ahead, the manual for Zelda II can be found at https://www.nintendo.co.jp/clv/manuals/en/pdf/CLV-P-NAASE.pdf

In our third episode, we cruise through levels 7 and 8, then continue on to hunt down Ganon himself and save Hyrule! This one ran a bit long to allow us to complete the game, and next week we'll begin Zelda II: The Adventure of Link!

I was reading some stuff about Tom Shippey, and apparently he co-authored an alternate history trilogy under a pseudonym. Is anyone familiar with this trilogy? Hammer and the Cross trilogy on Amazon

Due to unforeseen circumstances, I will be unable to stream Press Play this week or next week. I plan to stream again starting Monday, April 12th.

If I understand the concept correctly, the best example of Estel that I can see is found in The Return of the King. Frodo sighed and was asleep almost before the words were spoken. Sam struggled with his own weariness, and he took Frodo’s hand; and there he sat silent till deep night fell. Then...

In our second installment, we brave levels 5 and 6, discuss Digdogger's least favorite music, and dislike dislike the Like Likes.

Unfortunately, I forgot to have Twitch autoarchive the stream (but have adjusted the setting so that it should do so in the future). If you would like to view the video, it will be available on YouTube once it finishes uploading.

I believe the twitch channel will be twitch.tv/jj48car

Got a capture card for my computer this week and I'm working on getting everything set up. My plan at the moment is to stream Mondays 7PM-9PM Eastern, starting this coming Monday if everything works out well. I'll post Twitch information for anyone interested once I get everything sorted out.

From this, do we have enough data to calculate the specific heat of Ring-gold or the average temperature of Sauron's hand?

Do we know if there is power in Valinor itself apart from the power of the Valar who live there? I don't know if a spiritual connection to Valinor is very meaningful unless by it one means a spiritual connection to the Valar. But then we're back to either reasoning based on good knowledge of...

I personally don't see any reason to connect the Three to Valinor, and the idea that they somehow "tapped into Valinor" sounds potentially problematic to me. Then again, I also don't see an issue with Elrond simply having studied enough about the Valar and their role in history to reason out...

So, the Ring can't be THAT evil if it doesn't require constant firmware updates and constantly pester its users to register and leave a review.

Looking at Gandalf and Galadriel's explanations as to how they would start with good intentions then fall, I think part of the point the text is driving at is that the ends don't justify the means. Not only is the Ring powerful, but it's the wrong type of power. The One Ring was made to find...

Why can't it be both? It seems to me that from the Ainulindalë, the Ainur sang the song but it was at Eru's direction. And I too think it's less mystical, and more philosophy or something akin to theology (valaology?).

I think part of why they believe that the Ring is a Middle-earth issue and that those in the West would not receive it is simply because the Valar seem to have made it clear that that's how they operate. In the Silmarillion, the Valar start out very active in Middle-earth, and then they...

For Gandalf to state such with certainty if he knew full well that it was questionable would be lying. If not in a legal sense, then in a moral sense (which I think is more relevant in this case). Is predicting one team to win even though there's a high degree of uncertainty a lie? No. Is...

That's part of the reason I think it's important to view the arguments in light of the story as a whole, as that can help give us direction where the evidence itself doesn't speak clearly one way or the other.

Only if you ignore reasoning such as the Tuesday discussion, which you still have not addressed other than to dismiss it without consideration. And still, none of this explains why Gandalf would outright lie. This isn't the kind of book where the ends justify the means.

That Gandalf might disagree with Tom I can understand. However, I doubt his opinion of Tom is really so low as all that, or he likely wouldn't go to visit him after all this is over (there'd likely still be some lingering resentment over Tom's refusal to help, for instance). Also, if the...