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Forum: The Books
02-07-2011, 06:26 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 6,790
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Orofarne
Tolkien was a professor at Oxford. Let's not...
Tolkien was a professor at Oxford. Let's not forget he would have known the Norse Eddas inside and out. This is the man who formed a book club where they read Icelandic literature in Icelandic. |
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Forum: Middle-earth Mirth
09-04-2010, 06:25 PM
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Replies: 36
Views: 13,109
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Orofarne
During the previous administration (in the U.S.)...
During the previous administration (in the U.S.) I actually saw: "Frodo failed; Bush has the Ring" Giggled for hours. |
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Forum: The Books
09-04-2010, 06:14 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 9,611
Posted By
Orofarne
Very interesting about the whole purgatory thing,...
Very interesting about the whole purgatory thing, I knew Tolkien was Catholic, but I guess I never thought about it much. But about the ending in the movie. I loved how, in the books, every... |
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Forum: The Books
08-16-2010, 11:08 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 7,365
Posted By
Orofarne
As a born and bred mountain girl, I know that...
As a born and bred mountain girl, I know that small fires are actually beneficial to the forests. They burn out leaf litter and dead pinecones and things (called mast) and give all the trees more... |
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Forum: Middle-earth Mirth
08-16-2010, 10:38 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 5,696
Posted By
Orofarne
Sorry if this isn't too good.
Original:...
Sorry if this isn't too good. Original: Robert Frost's The Road not Taken ______________________________ Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one... |
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Forum: Middle-earth Mirth
08-15-2010, 03:59 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 10,609
Posted By
Orofarne
Perhaps you may have heard of Legless? He...
Perhaps you may have heard of Legless? He followed the fellowship in a wheelchair and was a good friend of Gimli's. |
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Forum: Middle-earth Mirth
07-29-2010, 05:43 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 14,515
Posted By
Orofarne
This seems like the best place to put this...
Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles something-I-can't-remember met every Tuesday to read their writing at the Eagle and Child pub in Oxford. they called themselves the Inklings. Everyone on the same... |
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Forum: The Books
07-03-2010, 04:53 PM
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Replies: 81
Views: 102,309
Posted By
Orofarne
On republicans and war
Thankyouthankyouthankyou! Mr. Washington is extremely dreadful, and obviously needs to read the books. Also, Eowyn is a rather minor character in the books, and I really don't think that... |
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Forum: The Movies
06-02-2010, 02:04 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 12,858
Posted By
Orofarne
Either Merry or Pippin (I can never tell the...
Either Merry or Pippin (I can never tell the difference in the movie until Gandalf splits 'em up) has a Scottish accent-ish thing. That really bothered me. But I really wondered: narfforc, could... |
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Forum: The Books
06-01-2010, 12:58 PM
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Replies: 58
Views: 27,055
Posted By
Orofarne
I found the Spanish translation somewhere, and I...
I found the Spanish translation somewhere, and I have been reading it off and on. After getting used to the shock of seeing one's favorite character say the kind of snarly sentence that is the... |
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Forum: The Books
06-01-2010, 12:43 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 5,137
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Orofarne
Tolkien wrote all the poetry/songs in the books,...
Tolkien wrote all the poetry/songs in the books, but some of them remind me of other, 'real' songs. One thing that really bothered me about the movies was that they didnt bother singing any of the... |
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Forum: Middle-earth Mirth
05-28-2010, 06:10 PM
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Replies: 43
Views: 20,358
Posted By
Orofarne
Spin-off related
Anyone ever heard of a book called Muddle Earth? Thought not. I found out about it when I was reading George Orwell's Animal Farm, where there is a mention of mangel-wurzels. I wasn't 100 per cent... |
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Forum: Middle-earth Mirth
05-28-2010, 05:51 PM
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Replies: 64
Views: 28,813
Posted By
Orofarne
Just two more not-guessing ones
Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, etc., became, after 25 translations "Tom Bombadil was a man full of shoes, blue and yellow jacket. Adam was arrested when he was gentelman. Play music and leg... |
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Forum: The Movies
05-28-2010, 04:59 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 16,346
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Orofarne
1) No Tom Bombadil! How could they?
2) That...
1) No Tom Bombadil! How could they? 2) That strange battle in which Aragorn dies/is belived dead, sees Arwen/has a dream that adds nothing to the plot. 3) The whole 'dwarf tossing' joke. That was... |
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Forum: The Books
05-23-2010, 03:47 PM
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Replies: 215
Views: 88,170
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Orofarne
two questions
1] is Bella running around in Middle Earth? and 2] if so,how come no one has killed her yet? |
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Forum: Middle-earth Mirth
05-09-2010, 06:46 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 14,300
Posted By
Orofarne
Sorry, no one knows me, but this is my...
Sorry, no one knows me, but this is my ever-lasting shame. I saw the Fellowship movie before I read the book. But, if one hears people say things, one is liable to mishear them, and therefore think... |
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Forum: Middle-earth Mirth
05-09-2010, 06:31 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 7,389
Posted By
Orofarne
Lawn ornaments
I'm new here, but I think that yes he most certainly would! By the by, I've noticed the Palantir phenomena too, is Feanor out there making duplicate seeing stones for people to stick in their lawns... |
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Forum: The Books
04-23-2010, 04:59 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 28,415
Posted By
Orofarne
My (uninformed) opinion
I don't think that Tolkien was a Freemason. They seem to snap up all the symbols they can get their hands on, and everything I've read says that Tolkien was a staunch Roman Catholic. But then... |
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Forum: The Books
04-23-2010, 04:43 PM
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Replies: 215
Views: 88,170
Posted By
Orofarne
The Hobbit, in limerick form
Sorry, I was reading this thread and this just came to me. There once was a Hobbit called Baggins, who rode ponies, not horese nor wagons. He owned the One Ring That... |
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