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Via postmodernbarney, John DiBello posts about harassment of women at SDCC and his attempts to find out if there's any sort of policy at the con about attendees harassing other attendees.

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Scottish penguin knighted by the King of Norway.

Sometimes I love the world.

Sometimes it's so, so obvious...

The Crystal Shard by R. A. Salvatore, published by TSR in 1988, p. 44

In this place [the dwarf Bruenor] found his dreams, and ever they took him back to his ancient home. Mithril Hall, home of his fathers and their's [sic] before them, where rivers of the shining metal ran rich and deep and the hammers of dwarven smiths rang out in praise to Moradin and Dumathoin. Bruenor was merely an unbearded boy when his people had delved too deep into the bowels of the world and had been driven out by the dark things in dark holes. He was now the eldest surviving member of his small clan and the only one among them who had witnessed the treasures of Mithril Hall.

Dude! You forgot "Drums! Drums in the deep!"

I know that D&D and the whole heroic-fantasy RPG movement started in large part as a desire to play in Tolkien's world, but you think they'd file the serial numbers off a little more thoroughly.

(Not a complaint against Salvatore in this particular post, as he's forced to adhere to the worldbuilding, setting, and characters created by the company as a tie-in writer, just to the concept as a whole.)