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Just sayin'

Ah, I was waiting for that question. :D My assumption is that all basic needs are already taken care of (food, shelter, first aid etc) .... therefore no need for medical books or books on survival skills. So, my books are primarily to satisfy the soul and the heart and all have been read many times....

Funny, I was just pondering this a few days ago only I had limited myself to one book. No prize for guessing LotR :D But five books now! What wealth! LotR, Oxford Book of English Verse, Complete Shakespeare, Silmarillion and........ I'm stuck ..... can't decide between the poetry of e.e.cummings or ...

Yes, Letter 176: I do think of the Dwarves like Jews: at once native and alien in their habitations, speaking the languages of the country, but with the accent due to their own private tongue. I should have clarified that I was indulging in a bit of speculation ... that in addition to the language i...

:love: I knew most of these clips although the interview is new to me. It is wonderful to actually hear him speak although I can't imagine his students had an easy time with his lectures. Good thing that there is a transcript because I had a hard time with the rapidity of his speech and I'm attuned ...

I am reading your fascinating story in Bag End, Voronwë, and wanted to ask.... what is your perception of the mingling of Islam and indigenous Animist religions? Is there any contradiction there, (many spirits vs. one deity) or are the faiths complimentary? Do the majority of the Malinke people form...

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Hi Wilma!!!!

Oh, come now, Prim! Spock's Brain is a classic. :twisted: A few more facts: * Though produced after "The Enterprise Incident," "Spock's Brain" aired first, thus opening the third season. * McCoy (DeForest Kelley) utters another famous quote alongside his famous, "He's dead J...

At least we get The Complete Jane Austen on PBS starting tonight with
Persuasion.

w00t!

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/austen/

I'll have to wait until April for The Andrew Davies S&S.

Just a wee bit scattered :D and it's taken a long time but for what it's worth, here's part two: And then there are the Elves....... :love: “They are a fair folk, and wonderful, and they have a power over the hearts of Men. And yet I think sometimes that it might have been better if we had never me...

ToshoftheWuffingas wrote:

And, of course, there must be a heart-wrenching five-minute drowning scene for Drogo and Primula.

If PJ directs it Prim there'll be a shark involved.

With many close-ups of very big shiny white teeth.

And gaping jaws.

No, Voronwë, I shan't. I can still remember 'Riddles' quite vividly. I think that's because Gollum is such an extraordinary character plus all of the references in LotR. Still, we shall see how accurate my memory is when I get actually there. It was a very long time ago .... 42 years, in fact. :shoc...

Ah, thank you, solicitr, I will take your suggestion and go from there. And report back when I'm done. :D One does feel a tiny bit guilty skipping the opening chapters ... but I've done that with LotR for years now. I invariably begin with The Shadow of the Past and then go straight to the Old Fores...

Hoom. Tolkien was a first class procrastinator, wasn't he? I do wish he had made the final 1960 revisions .... it might have made TH more palatable for me. I've made the attempt to reread it (concurrent with Letters) and just had to close the book after the first few pages again. I can't get past th...

Kams , Ahem. The following information is presented in the early pages of this thread. :P The result will be two films shot at the same time in 2009, one to emerge in 2010 as Hobbit and a sequel taking the story from there through the 60-year gap that extends ot the beginning of the Rings trilogy. ...

Frelga wrote: But how is offering very poor women vast sums of money and excellent medical care for a fairly short-term project worse than offering them tiny sums of money for back-breaking work that poisons and ruins their bodies? Isn't that an even worse form of coercion? Yet, while sweatshops ma...

May his words live forever!

While it is certainly true that Tolkien is famous for saying that he cordially disliked allegory in any of its manifestations he also maintained (and I quote here from one source but the contention of allegory>story>truth is repeated many times throughout Letters ) ...... he is making the distinctio...

Heh.

Just wait until we begin discussing The Divine Feminine in Tolkien's works, Holby.

Then you can really start pulling out your hair.

Or what's left of it.