The Hall of Fire

Swearing is a fact of life in Ireland. Everyone does it but nobody means it. As a result, its pretty hard to insult us. We're too used to our friends calling us dickheads to pay attention when someone really means it. My bosses from the top down, all swear. In a peculiar way, guys on the floor have ...

Here's the link Kams is refering to.

http://downloads.comingsoon.net/snowlarge.mov

This is far more interesting to me than Ringers, which was really poor to be honest. I certainly intend buying these, but I may wait for someone to pick them up as a Cristmas pressie

First clips starting to appear!

http://progressive.stream.aol.com/newli ... 12k_dl.mov

Mines not really a groaner, its a genuine crossword type clue, albeit targeted at a particular audience.

Either will work

I really see opinions on this subject being a bit bimodal... in two dimensions, actually. There are the people who are adults (or insolent pups :P) who have played the games for years, and find themselves feeling vaguely accused of some sort of latent evil for even wanting to pursue them. These adu...

Ok. Quickie.

Ians Head Covering (10)

Conga Rats?

An interesting sidebar to this discussion. Rockstar Games, who make the notorious GTA games recently announced a new game called "Bullies" and the reaction was, predictably, major. Bully gets picked on in the House of Commons Thursday 27-Oct-2005 2:52 PM MP Keith Vaz is concerned over Rock...

Only teasing you V! You should know by now that if I have something to say nothing will stop me from saying it, even in the face of my better judgement

But Alatar, saying that the destruction of the Ring is in accordance with Eru's will is not saying that the Pinkie of God nudged Gollum over the edge. That would be a cheat. Believing that Eru had a plan for Middle-earth doesn't turn everyone into a robot. For the Ring to be destroyed, a lot of peo...

I'm assuming you don't mean me

I vote for 1. I agree with everything you said Prim, except if you think its ok after all that for God to "make Gollum slip". If he's going to intervene directly (and making Gollum fall is direct intervention) he might as well have struck it with lightning at the Council of Elrond. It chea...

As usual, I disagree. To be honest, if I believed for one second that the climax of the novel was a huge Deus Ex Machina I'd never read it again. It would defeat the entire purpose of the novel. "Small hands do them, because they must", except not really cause at the last minute when they ...

Hmm. Anyone interested in watching the Keira movie now?

Very few people, reading LotR once or even twice, would pick up on the 'spiritual' undertones. Tolkien does keep it very subtle and low-key...always in the background or off-stage. But it is there , and once you know about it, you can't ignore it (sorry, vison !) God, in the form of Providence, doe...

What Mith said.

Impenitent wrote:...by that time of night I feel like a shag on a rock

Uncomfortable surely, yet strangely arousing.

I will return with my TV Obsessions, of which there are many.



But first I have to stop thinking about shagging Impy on a rock.

he believed that he must now say farewell to both love and light Love and light; light and Love. The love of Lúthien. The light of the Silmaril (and thus the holy light of the Trees). What is the connection of these two things? I'm not sure I agree with the connection you're making here. Beren is s...

I read while I was on holidays, up to about chapter 15 I think. I would say that I think 10 chapter chunks are a little too much. I've forgotten a lot that I meant to comment on already. No time now for a full review, but I'm enjoying it. One question though. How old is Biddy meant to be? I understa...