simonmwh wrote:  Glens are not English.

In the sense that Scotland is not England and that England and Scotland are not Ireland and that England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales make up the United Kingdom...no, glens are not English.

You would have to forgive an American writer for not knowing the linguistic roots and variations of the British Isles.  Who, exactly, are the Scotch-Irish and the Scoti and the Scots, and the Irish and the Picts and how are they related to the Celts and the Gauls and the Cornish, Welsh, Cymry, Britons, Bretons and Celto-Roman Iberians?    

Or, that Douglas, Douglass and Dougal are all indigenous names typical of Ireland and Scotland...but that they mean "dark foreigner," as in someone who is not from Scotland or Ireland?  

I suspect that there might be similar linguistic confusion if we polled random citizens of London about the word "glen."

It gets even more confusing for American readers when Europeans insist on mixing geographic designators, such as the habit of refering to mountainous areas as forests...for example, the German Black Forest which is a forest but is more correctly a mountain range.  Or the British use of "wold," which means "forest" but which is most often used to describe a range of hills.  

For instance, what is "The Wold" and how is it different from "The Cotswolds?"

Well...that was fun.  OK...go on with the discussion.  

simonmwh wrote: Isn't it the educated part of the populus that CoC is aimed at?

Good point.

ashmire13 wrote:  

But, I'd think to say that an American writer wouldn't know about something like this is a little condescending.

So, I'd say to call anything a glen in England is inviting Mr Cock-up to the party.  

An American writer probably wouldn't know about the word "glen" not being applicable to England.

Just stumbled accross a book called green and pleasant lands with a picture og a cricket all on trhe cover, and another kind of flip book with two adventures in it and cut out shits in the middle. Both by Games Workshops probably from the 80's or so. Don't know anything about Cthulhu. Is there a Cthulhu Acaeum type of site with price guides on it?

mbassoc2003 wrote:Is there a Cthulhu Acaeum type of site with price guides on it?

Not really.  The prices at yog-sothoth.com are about three years old.


If you want to sell it to me cheap, I'm in!  

I think this sums up CoC gamers



http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Cthulhu-Grave-Rub ... 286.c0.m14



 

Lovecraft's grave at the Swan Point Cemetery in Providence is a well known tourist destination.
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/9343

ashmire13 wrote:
I was watching a few of those 'Green & Pleasant Lands' last year and they were selling for 10's of ££. From memory anything up to £50 IIRC...

Blake again.  He's always cropping up.  

FormCritic wrote:
A rubbing of a grave marker is common practice among people who engage in such things as historical research, family history or even just collectors of interesting headstones.

I used to work near St Martins in the Fields Church off Trafalgar Square where they even run courses on grave rubbing; or at least did a couple of years ago.  
Considering that I had never seen a grave rubbing for sale on ebay before it didn't surprise me that the first one I came across is from the grave of HP Lovecraft.