May 2019 – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
10 posts published by Bret Devereaux during May 2019| A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
10 posts published by Bret Devereaux during May 2019| A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
This is the first part of our [I don’t know; a few?] part series looking at the Siege of Eregion sequence from the second season of Amazon’s Rings of Power and what we can learn by poin…| A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
This is the first part of a planned five-part series (I, II, III, IV, V) covering some of the basics of fortifications, from city walls to castles and field fortifications! We are going to discuss …| A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
This is the fifth part of a series taking a historian’s look at the Battle of Helm’s Deep (I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII. VIII) from both J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Two Towers (1954) and Peter Jackson…| A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
Today we’re going to talk about what a pre-modern battlefield might look like after the battle is over. Obvious content warning, since this post is going to talk about (and show pictures of) …| A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
(Note: Thanks to the effort of a kind reader, this post is now available in audio format! The playlist for the entire series may be found here.) This is the third part of of a six part series (I, I…| A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
This is the third part of our [I, II, I don’t know, a few more?] part series looking at Rings of Power’s Siege of Eregion from a military history perspective. Last week, we discussed th…| A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
