The Hall of Fire

yov, one of the major points that President Obama has been making, through the campaign, and into the early part of his presidency, is that reforming health care policy (as well as energy and education policies) is utterly critical to returning to a healthy economy. Now, one can certainly validly co...

We'll have to see if we can track down dna to participate in this discussion, eh Mith? ;) Elrond is obviously subordinate to him, even though he is Maglor's foster son. Not to mention the fact that Maglor himself is presumably still around somewhere, since Tolkien explicitly stated that Elrond was w...

Care to elaborate, Tosh, rather than just begging to differ?

Nice to see you, Ophelia! I'd never even considered whether there was a connection between Merry being followed by the Rider in Bree and his role in the demise of the Witch-King. I'll get a new thread up on A Knife in the Dark soon, unless someone else beats me to it. I look forward to seeing you th...

Sure enough. Well, that is one that I can't take the blame for (other than not catching it), since I never created the running titles.

I'll be very interested to see your more substantive thoughts, once you have had an opportunity to read it more carefully.

My eyes automatically changed "in someone's garbage" to "in someone's garage." I literally could not believe my own eyes that someone would throw something like that away.

That was a compliment.

Very interesting, soli. I confess this is a subject that I have not given much thought to before, although it clearly was an issue for Tolkien. Although Théoden designated Éomer as his heir (twice) before he died, the impression I get is that he was just putting the succession beyond doubt, even tho...

How many places can you go where people use words like "deconvolute"?

I moved the discussion about the tables into the thread that I started dedicated to the tables. I might try to see if I can separate out the discussion about the edits to the female characters as well, since that is also a separate subject from the "theory of transmission" Edit: I did spl...

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There's a reason why the book has only black and white illustrations.

As I said some back, it's rather a shame that most of Doug's technical work wound up compressed into the tables, for both space and copyright reasons, for it gives little impression of how the texts themselves line up; indeed, necessarily they focus on difference rather than congruence. I think the...

Great stuff, Al! Really great!

It's worth waiting to truly do it justice.

Has it ever wondered you why he put it aside to write LOTR? Though we are told, over and over again, that he regarded it as his "real work" and of much more importance than anything else he ever wrote? He could never be satisfied with it, writing it over and over, revising, polishing, hon...

Yes, and manipulating that research method is standard in the legal field. I've seen too many such analyses done by competing highly qualified experts that resulted in diametrically opposite conclusions to be anything but suspicious of such things. Sorry.

It can easily be done. The first step would be content analysis - which would give a ranking of the removed parts in terms of extent of removal, importance to story etc. Then we can simply add a dummy variable for "women character". A simple test to see if this variable is significant or ...

It's virtually impossible to keep up with you!