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Vocab word of the day: "eucatastrophes": "a sudden turn of events in a story which ensures that the protagonist does not meet some terrible, impending, and very plausible and probable doom.", via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucatastrophe

I never would have connnected Miyazaki with Tolkien.

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It's Anastrophe, for the Haskell programmers. (But the literature nerds have already used that word for Yoda-grammar)

εὖ : well/good κατα- : back/against στρέφω : I turn/twist

It looked funny pairing for bit of Greek I know until I read the link and realized it wasn’t really Greek.

You weren’t far off

> The writer J. R. R. Tolkien coined the word by affixing the Greek prefix eu, meaning good, to catastrophe

From the New Oxford Dictionary

> Catastrophe: mid 16th century (in the sense 'denouement'): from Latin catastropha, from Greek katastrophé 'overturning, sudden turn', from kata- 'down' + strophe 'turning' (from 'down strephein 'to turn').

It's Greek for deus ex machina!

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