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The frontispiece to William Morris's 1897 The Sundering Flood was a map showing the city on a great river, "The Wood Masterless", a "Desert Waste", and towns with English names like "Westcheaping" and "Eastcheaping". [20] The map appears to have been the first fantasy map in the modern sense, defining a wholly invented world. [21]
Esgaroth, or Lake-town, is a fictional community of Men upon the Long Lake that appears in the 1937 novel The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. Constructed entirely of wood and standing upon wooden pillars sunk into the lake-bed, the town is south of the Lonely Mountain and east of Mirkwood .
Mercedes Ritchie Lackey (born June 24, 1950) is an American writer of fantasy novels.Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar.
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Move over, Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword—there's a new NYT word game in town! The New York Times' recent game, "Strands," is becoming more and more popular as another daily activity ...
Agloe, New York, was invented on a 1930s map as a copyright trap. In 1950, a general store was built there and named Agloe General Store, as that was the name seen on the map. Thus, the phantom settlement became a real one. [3] There are also misnamed settlements, such as the villages of Mawdesky and Dummy 1325 in Lancashire on Google Maps. [4]
The reason this story was left out of the compiled novel is due to the fact that the setting for "A Dragon in Distress" takes place in Elisabeth Waters's world, not Lackey's Velgarth. Sword and Sorceress III (July 1986, ISBN 0-88677-141-2), story "Sword Sworn" Sword and Sorceress IV (July 1987, ISBN 0-88677-210-9), story "A Tale of Heroes"
In the days since, guns have killed at least 2244 more people. Chicago has seen more recent gun deaths than any other city in the U.S. In a speech there, President Obama said "too many of our children are being taken away from us" as a result of gun violence.