my personal Appendix N

[hengest]

Inspired by this post (thank you, restless ).  I will come back to and expand this, replies welcome.


Television

• Muppet Babies
• The Simpsons, whether I like it or not now, it was big back in the day
• Sesame Street
• Lovejoy 

Movies

• Conan the Barbarian (1982)
• Spirited Away
• Truly Madly Deeply
• The Gambler (1974)
• Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Books

• Saving the Appearances by Owen Barfield
• The Lord of the Rings
• Maus
• Assorted Silver Age DC comic books
• Zot! 
• Tales of the Beanworld
• Cynicalman
• AD&D DM Guide
• A Wrinkle in Time
• A Wizard of Earthsea
• a kids' sci-fi book I read in the back of the classroom in first grade and have never since been able to identify
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and related media

Computer Games

• Hero's Quest / Quest for Glory from Sierra (first four installments, never played Dragon Fire)
• King's Quest from Sierra (first three)
• Nethack (honorable mention to Rogue and Adom)

Places

• my great-grandmother's house (inhabited by the family between 1920 or so and 2001)
• the backyard of my little friend who lived two doors down, plus part of the interior of her house (mostly kitchen)
• the area at my high school between the the track and "the rock," plus the area beyond the rock through the woods and up to the playground
• the area at my grandmother's house kind of behind the house where the street blends into a kind of alley and there are weeds and things but it's not really wild, plus I know that my mother picked violets with her mother there when she was little
• an apartment that I lived in while on a temp job for a year, the surrounding wooded area (almost right up against the apartment)
• the little green space outside another apartment that I would cut through to get to my car where a mockingbird hurled itself at me regularly during its anxious season one year
• the tunnel system that I briefly entered once during college (you weren't supposed to)

[hengest]

One thing I want to add here (may go back another time and edit the original post) is the works of Howard Pyle.

Pyle was a writer and illustrator in the 19th and early 20th centuries.  I have not read much of his writing but am trying to fix that now.  You have probably seen his illustrations in his children's books, several of which are still in print.

For example, below is "Sir Kay breaketh his sword at the tournament."  I know that I saw these illustations and some influenced by their style and am sure that many people involved in the hobby in the early days did, too.  So I am making this post for Pyle and may add to it later.

[Vladimir, The Dark Prince]

hengest that is a pretty wild mix of influences and it gives some insight into the wide territory that your ideas cover.