http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125200842406984303.htmlPALO ALTO, Calif. -- From a Silicon Valley office strewn with bean-bag chairs, a group of twenty-something software engineers is building an unlikely following of terrorist hunters at U.S. spy agencies.
One of the latest entrants into the government spy-services marketplace, palantír Technologies has designed what many intelligence analysts say is the most effective tool to date to investigate terrorist networks.
Tolkien's linguistic influence grows
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Tolkien's linguistic influence grows
Let's just hope they don't hop onto a pyre, taking their sons along.
That's a great name for a company, though.
And then there's this, a travel clothing company.
That's a great name for a company, though.
And then there's this, a travel clothing company.
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
Huh, I think I knew that The Rohan store made no reference to either Tolkien or the French aristocracy, but I rather suspect Tolkien. While Googling, I also came across Rohan Irish Wolfhounds. I don't know how I feel about a bitch named Cridhe Cu Galadriel...
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
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I always find ring mail so impractical, to be honest. And sloppy. You can never get a good crease.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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I'm sure the horses would like that better.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King