The Hall of Fire

Alatar, thinking of you, and hoping that you have had a great run!

An Essay by Adam Tolkien on The Children of Húrin And here is the painting of Húrin that I mentioned that I saw as part of the trailer: http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/promos/Hurin_hmco_plate65._V12312312_.jpg And the previously released painting, as seen in the book: http://g-ec2....

Meli, I look forward to hearing more of your thoughts about Tolkien's works and related subjects (including the LOTR films).

I may have to start a new thread about Aragorn just for you. Or perhaps revive an old one.

MithLuin!!!!!11

Wonderful to see here! Please don't be a stranger.

(Aldaron did post about this in a separate thread.)

Of course we are interested, silly Ax.

Good luck on this next phase of the adventure.

Meanwhile, the latest documents that were released make it increasingly clear how politically motivated the firings were. Not only were the fired attorneys targeted for political reasons, a list of politically acceptable replacements (including one attorney with zero trial experience) was gathered b...

Amphi, please do go back and get us a picture of the Hall of Fire!

And all of ours.

Driving home from work today, I had another feeling that Barry had hit a home run. I was wrong, this time.

He hit two.

And more importantly, this time (barring a total collapse in the bottom of the ninth) it was in a winning cause.

True enough, Meli. With movies, as in everything, "good" is in the eyes of the beholder.

A very timely request, Meli. The people affected by Katrina are still suffering greatly, even though they are no longer much in the focus of the news. They definitely have my prayers. For that matter, so do those still suffering from ravages of the horrible Tsunami a couple of years ago. I shudder t...

Hi, Meli. Your friend sounds really special. Some people just seem to be born to give of themselves. Or maybe they become that way. Either way, it makes them very special.

I get the feeling that you are one of those people, too.

Yes, Imus had a weird dichotomy, and a history of getting away with outrageous stuff. My personal feeling is that it was good that he was fired, but I do have some trepidation. Who is next? Will there be a campaign to get Bill Maher fired for the outrageous things that he has said? Should there be? ...

Lord M., my initial feeling was that Jones comments' were overly inflammatory and likely to incite violence according to the article you linked to, the comments were not actually Jones' own comments, but rather listeners comments that he read over the air. The station's chief executive indicated tha...

The latest flap in this ongoing story is that apparently an unknown number of emails by White House aides (including, of course, Karl Rove) have apparently been deleted. It seems that these people were using National Republican Committee email accounts to conduct official business, and then deleting...

I split off some of the superfluous posts from this thread: Measured Silliness Also, in regards to the question raised above about how we would treat a thread that was started with specific posting rules, we would certainly have no objection to such a thread, if people want to participate in it, bu...

My favorite Vonnegut book is Bluebeard. I highly recommend it.

He was a great man and a worthy artist.

Rest in peace, my friend.

yov, here is a pretty good site describing the Supreme Court's 2005 decision in Gonzales v. Raich (originally Raich v. Ashcroft), the medical marijuana case in which the Court overturned the 9th Circuit's ruling that the Controlled Substance Act, as applied to the plaintiffs in that case as was an u...

yov, as far as I am concerned, Ax pretty much answered the question.