The Hall of Fire

I saw it cuz I had a friend who was an older divorced woman. The movie quickly became her favorite movie. It was pretty clear that that was because she was vicariously living the fantasy of travelling to gorgeous Italy, meeting charming locals, drinking local wines, and falling in love with dashing...

From what I've seen and read, the movie was basically one of those formulaic "divorcee rediscovers herself and finds true love in an idyllic, romantic setting generously peppered with endearing and eccentric secondary characters". Saw it. That's exactly what it was. Pretty, though. So I'v...

I think one of the weirdest movie adaptations of a book in the last few years must be "Under the Tuscan Sun". After reading a synopsis and some reviews of the movie, I decided that beyond not spending ten bucks on a ticket, I would most likely never spend any bucks at all on renting it (al...

<remembers discovering Photobucket> :love: <remembers first disasterous attempts to post pics on a messageboard> :oops: Crucifer, Prim's right.......the editing options are really easy to follow. :) And thanks for the posting the pics. You know, you DO rather look like how I imagine ol' prissy Perc...

I've decided that the only way to do this is to list the three songs that immediately came to mind......deeper analysis will only make the task impossible. In My Life It's All Too Much Here Comes the Sun <sw00ns for George> :love: <is sad because it's not the favourite five songs> <adds Norwegian Wo...

Oh no, that's the real book. It's 40 pages of text and 740 pages of artwork. In essence, Voldemort takes over a Mercedes-Benz dealership, kills all the Muggles, and turns the car into a Horcrux. He's speeding down I-95 with Wormtail at his side, poking the six-disc CD player with his wand, when Fre...

His temptation, and it was a constant torment, was to bag it all and go home to the Shire, but he knew that if he did, all that he loved about the Shire would be ruined. I have no doubt that going home to the Shire would be Frodo's strongest conscious desire, but like Sam's yearning to return to hi...

For example: why does JRRT have Sam pick up the Ring as if to go on alone, but eventually decide he has to find Frodo and save him? I think that it was the only way for him to convey "the temptation of good". Through Sam's inner vision, the reader finally gets to see just how the Ring wor...

*becomes irritible. Is not a "Tolkien enthusiast, " and neither is vison. considers complaining to mods for being paid inadequate respect* Silly baby. Of course vison is a Tolkien enthusiast. Why else would she write tales with titles like "Erik of Rohan"? And I can recall many ...

to you Jewel, from a mom who has watched her own daughter's personal journey through (and thankfully beyond) one of those "very bad places".

Alatar, my nephews (both in their mid-twenties now :help: ) went to that first performance in Vancouver (but it was back in May). As a matter of fact, one of them actually had tickets to BOTH the Vancouver performances!!! He said the second was a bit more polished, but the first was simply "ele...

Geez, I can't even decide who's the most important character in LOTR Uh, Sam. Duh. Like as not. ;) I have it on good account that it was Alex's towel boy who was responsible for conquering Persia. "I may be a ninnyhammer, Mr. Alex, but there seems to be naught worth pillaging in the west. East...

:D She probably also invented sliced bread, as a mother sliced bread would be needed. :rofl: And guilt: "What would your mama say???" :help: Geez, I can't even decide who's the most important character in LOTR, let alone who's the most important person in the entire history of the big, wid...

This discussion has been rather Euro-centric so far. If 1/4 of the world's population is Chinese, perhaps we should be considering someone from China's history as the most important in the world. My Chinese history is rather rusty (having studied it 30 years ago) but weren't there Alexander-the-Gre...

But surely the prophesies of Arda should not be tied to those of our real world, either past or future. As I've said before, Finrod's revelation in the Athrabeth takes me right out of the story as my mind tries to, for example, reconcile the existence of the Shire before the birth of Jesus. It's an ...

Poignant sense of loss One of the most powerful scenes in the entire film trilogy is Arwen standing by Aragorn's tomb, a desolate woman in the black of mortal mourning, having forsaken her immortality and finally tasting the bitterness of separation by death. A scene so piercingly beautiful, so sad...

Here's the internet version of an article I just read in one of our national magazines. I thought it was well worth sharing:

http://www.macleans.ca/homepage/magazin ... 109_107109

Twelve more days to go!

Alatar, we have an album called "The Glory of Gershwin" that has Sting singing that song. We've had it for quite some time.......maybe ten years or so? It's also got the likes of Peter Gabriel, Sinead O'Conner, and Elvis Costello with their takes on many of Gershwin's classics. Even George...

Holby-dear, I like your thinkin'.

Cow-Tao.

(assuming that this time, we're pronouncing Tao with a "t"..... )

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Well, poo. I should have known that pronunciation might be a problem. Holby and vison, you're both so close, I'm putting your answers together for the correct form. Industrial Way = The Tao (but only if one knows that it's pronounced "Dao"...........sorry.) I trust that you will find an am...