In The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, the Helcaraxë is an inhospitable region of perpetually shifting pack ice known in the Common tongue as "Grinding Ice" and in Elvish as "Ice Fangs." This region provided the only crossing of the great sea Belegaer that was traversable on foot. Because of this, it was used as an escape route for Morgoth and Ungoliant when fleeing the Valar during the First Age, and it was used again as a path of exodus by Fingolfin to lead his people into Beleriand.

At the end of the First Age, the War of Wrath saw Beleriand sink beneath the great sea, and the Grinding Ice came apart at this time, destroying the only method of transit across the sea other than sailing and flight. The world was sundered and made round (having previously been a single flat, symmetrical continent suspended in space) following the downfall of Numenor in the Second Age, with the sacred Undying Lands rendered permanently…

2018 has been a journey whose motif has been REFOCUS. I wanted to return to an active lifestyle, reignite my passion for writing, regain control over my BMI, and remove clutter from my electronic footprint.

• I have been to so many spin classes I can now “isolate in 2” with no hands.
• I went from

The term zero player game refers to a game in which the player(s) are not necessary to play the game, and are only there for their own enjoyment. This generally means one of two types of games:

Games of Chance: Games such as Snakes and Ladders, War (the card game), Bingo, and the lottery allow for essentially no meaningful strategy. The spirit of the game is that you set up, take the knocks as they come, and have some fairly mindless fun. Some games may be treated as zero…