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- Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:43 am
- Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
- Topic: Take me out to the ballgame!
- Replies: 1563
- Views: 460118
- Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:36 am
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Five Must Have Books
- Replies: 58
- Views: 27268
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....
- Mon Jan 21, 2008 4:26 am
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Five Must Have Books
- Replies: 58
- Views: 27268
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 ...
- Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:57 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: A Modern-Day palantír
- Replies: 19
- Views: 16771
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...
- Thu Jan 17, 2008 11:25 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: A Modern-Day palantír
- Replies: 19
- Views: 16771
: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 ...
- Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:28 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: The Spirits of Africa
- Replies: 32
- Views: 19506
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...
- Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:15 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Human-animal embryos for research.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2986
Human-animal embryos for research.
Green light for hybrid research: Regulators have given scientists the green light to create human-animal embryos for research. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority granted permission after a consultation showed the public were "at ease" with the idea. Experts said it was vital...
- Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:55 am
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: Trek Remastered (Specially for Prim!)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10246
- Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:10 am
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: Trek Remastered (Specially for Prim!)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10246
- Sun Jan 13, 2008 11:25 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Pride and Prejudice: Adaptations of Austen
- Replies: 944
- Views: 427394
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.
Persuasion.
w00t!
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/austen/
I'll have to wait until April for The Andrew Davies S&S.
- Sun Jan 13, 2008 7:50 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Tolkien's Emotional Universe
- Replies: 120
- Views: 69889
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...
- Sat Jan 12, 2008 11:16 pm
- Forum: Tolkien Movies: The Road Goes Ever On
- Topic: Is this for real?
- Replies: 161
- Views: 67332
- Mon Jan 07, 2008 1:09 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: The History of the Hobbit (Contains some "Spoilers"
- Replies: 71
- Views: 38254
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...
- Sun Jan 06, 2008 8:32 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: The History of the Hobbit (Contains some "Spoilers"
- Replies: 71
- Views: 38254
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...
- Sun Jan 06, 2008 5:16 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: The History of the Hobbit (Contains some "Spoilers"
- Replies: 71
- Views: 38254
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...
- Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:32 am
- Forum: Tolkien Movies: The Road Goes Ever On
- Topic: Is this for real?
- Replies: 161
- Views: 67332
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. ...
- Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:00 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Thorny ethical questions part 17
- Replies: 36
- Views: 14787
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...
- Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:02 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Tolkien Birthday Toast
- Replies: 92
- Views: 129442
- Tue Jan 01, 2008 12:04 am
- Forum: Tolkien Movies: The Road Goes Ever On
- Topic: If Arwen had been cut from the films
- Replies: 107
- Views: 48315
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...
- Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:27 pm
- Forum: Tolkien Movies: The Road Goes Ever On
- Topic: If Arwen had been cut from the films
- Replies: 107
- Views: 48315