Silmarillion lecture on YT

This popped up on my fb news feed and I thought I'd share the link.

A few special notes/warnings though: An Evangelical Christian theologian gives a literary analysis, and dissection, of the Silmarillion. It is being presented by Ryan M. Reeves (PhD Cambridge) who is Assistant Professor of Historical Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.

Reference for Writers

Found this and thought it might be helpful.

http:// medieval. ucdavis.edu /120D/ Money.html

List of price of medieval items

Courtesy of Kenneth Hodges (hodges@jif.berkeley.edu)

The list of medieval prices which follows is by no means complete or thoroughly researched; I merely extracted references from some of the books I have, and I thought others might like to inspect it. The sources I used are listed at the end. If an item is listed several times, it is because I had several references I wished to record.

Money goes as follows:
1 pound (L) = 20 shillings (s)

1 crown = 5 shillings
1 shilling = 12 pence (d)
1 penny = 4 farthings
1 mark = 13s 4d

The French Livre, sou, and denier are equivalent to the pound, shilling and penny (Latin liber, solidus, and denarius).

For ease, I've divided this list into the following sections: tools, horses, food and livestock, books and education, buildings, cloth and clothing, armor, weapons, marriage, funerals, travel, miscellaneous goods, and wages.
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