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Forum: The Books
06-17-2008, 09:51 PM
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The art of keeping silent"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent" - Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Ludwig Wittgenstein The "father" of post-modernism would probably shrugged at the current worldview... |
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Forum: The Books
06-17-2008, 05:39 AM
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Replies: 132
Views: 89,724
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It's a starless nightIt is, of course, understandable that in every epoch, there would be people who detest another worldview. It is certainly much more pervasive that this other worldview is glorified in an ocean of... |
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Forum: The Books
06-16-2008, 05:24 PM
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Replies: 132
Views: 89,724
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The lesser of evilsHistorians would beg to defer from the view that traditionalist are worse. Christopher Columbus set out to prove that he could sail all the way to China based on the then-modern view of the round... |
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Forum: The Books
06-14-2008, 09:45 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 8,909
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One word to bring them all, and in the confusion binds themBut that was the entire point... why would a creature of shadow and flame be able to swim in the first place? (At least, one Balrog was known to swim in LoTR, and is a thing of slime after the dip)... |
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Forum: The Books
06-14-2008, 07:52 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 8,909
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Verily, I tell you...I believe that Balrogs have no wings, only wing-like fins for swimming. Challenge that. |
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Forum: The Books
06-14-2008, 06:36 AM
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Replies: 171
Views: 97,921
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Panic attackWhoa, Sam, stop. Your legs are short, so stop and think! Why must the men of Lake Town chop down their path of escape? Panic, I suppose... "Sir! We're under attack from a flying dragon!" -... |
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Forum: The Books
06-14-2008, 05:58 AM
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Replies: 39
Views: 13,285
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Bumpkin landTom really made for a more homely (gossipy) settings fitting in the atmosphere of the Shire. And it was really one of those things that endeared me to the early chapters, and thus magnified the... |
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Forum: The Books
06-14-2008, 05:03 AM
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Replies: 75
Views: 23,745
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Common hairy ancestors?For that matter, where did the hairs on hobbits' feet came from, and how did they shrink? No mention of hobbits at all in Arda 1st or 2nd age either. I believed that there had been some pun drawn at... |
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Forum: Novices and Newcomers
06-12-2008, 12:17 AM
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Replies: 38
Views: 13,047
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Spare the rod...My favorite characters in ME? Hmm... what a dilemma... But here goes: 1. Old Tom Bombadil of the sexy yellow boots 2. Evil Bio-Engineer Morgoth 3. His apprentice Sauron 4. Ol' Witchking of... |
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Forum: The Books
06-12-2008, 12:00 AM
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Replies: 39
Views: 13,285
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Science and History vs FolkloreSurely Ol' Merry Fello deserved better than to be written off as a writer's block?!? I, for one, loved the chapter where Ol' Tom sank the barrow outta our very own barrow wight, sending him packing... |
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Forum: The Books
06-11-2008, 11:30 PM
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Replies: 25
Views: 8,333
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Dead elf walking... Or The New (improved) ElfHmm, I sense that justifications for the "braver" race are taking a turn towards the topic of mortality... But instead of just looking at the reincarnating elf, why don't we take a look at the... |
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Forum: The Books
06-11-2008, 10:54 PM
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Replies: 75
Views: 23,745
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Wood or Boat, take your pickEEP!!! I'm two years late for a surprise exam on Middle Earth and Hobbit!!! Oh well, better late than never :D... By the time of The Hobbit, there seemed to be only two santuaries of Men from... |
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Forum: Novices and Newcomers
06-11-2008, 10:30 PM
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Replies: 387
Views: 223,054
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It is what it say it is...Howdy! Aloha! Been a reeaallll looonnng time since my last update. But Hot&Crispy(TM) is still hot in the market, serving the palate of hungry trolls Arda-wide for ISD$666.66. (No, we don't... |
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Forum: The Books
04-13-2005, 08:30 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 9,636
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Bad NeighbourThis sounds interesting... I had always assumed that Saruman just "leased" some of the lands from King Theoden via Grima; just like how Grima borrowed Theoden's sword (many other things that men... |
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Forum: The Books
04-12-2005, 08:46 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 14,219
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Too low Intelligence?Somehow, I can't seem to place Boromir as the rebellious kind: Of course, this version of him may have been chiselled to perfection after long discourse... But if I am to judge Boromir's... |
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Forum: The Books
04-12-2005, 08:23 AM
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Replies: 43
Views: 16,888
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More like WWIII can't substantiate much of my conjunctions, but it was prophesied that Feanor can never defeat Morgoth... The picture that forms in my mind was eerily familiar... Feanor led the Noldor in... |
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Forum: The Books
04-09-2005, 07:56 PM
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Replies: 43
Views: 13,656
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Good orcs don't have pointy ears...Nope, still can't find any indication of pointy ears in orcs or goblins. However, the Uruk-hai portrayed in the movie had distinctly pretty pointy ears... "My dear little fellows, please believe... |
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Forum: The Books
04-09-2005, 07:30 PM
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Replies: 37
Views: 10,660
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Confused lot?I am not sure if I am correct to put it this way, but I think that Galadriel had already explained her intentions to Frodo... Apparently by that, Galadriel seem to indicate that she was only... |
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Forum: The Books
04-08-2005, 08:35 PM
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Replies: 41
Views: 19,124
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Letting the grass grow under their feetSomehow, I still could not place a hobbit and a man on par with each other... Of course it may sound wierd, but what I am imagining a community of hobbits dwelling happily at one corner with... |
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Forum: The Books
04-08-2005, 08:09 PM
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Replies: 55
Views: 15,957
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Never ask an elf...Sounds quite like those wicked witches in Macbeth ... But when Glorfindel said that the ol' Witchking's doom is still 'far off', I agree that he was probably advising the puny mortal men not to... |
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Forum: The Books
04-04-2005, 08:12 AM
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Replies: 43
Views: 13,656
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A mark of the devilsIt seems to me just as interesting that no one noticed that orcs have pointy ears as portrayed in the movie... But had there been any real indication as to the pointy ears of the orcs? |
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Forum: The Books
04-04-2005, 07:56 AM
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Replies: 55
Views: 15,957
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Stick 'em full of arrows?Now this may sound beside the point, but no-one seemed to have addressed the question of why no arrows could harm the Ringwraiths... Gandalf himself said that to Legolas after the elf shot down the... |
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Forum: The Books
04-02-2005, 08:39 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 18,758
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Of Hobbits and Merry fellows
I realised that the first few chapters of LOTR was not really that well liked... But if I am to right about my favorite chapters... I would probably be writing a chapter-by-chapter book review. ... |
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Forum: The Books
04-02-2005, 07:59 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 10,935
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Elvish or wizardry?Actually, I felt that Frodo seems more like Gandalf's pupil than Faramir; There were too few examples of Gandalf actually communicating with Faramir, whereas Frodo and Gandalf always took counsel... |
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Forum: The Books
04-02-2005, 07:06 AM
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Replies: 55
Views: 15,957
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Letter-opener of doomIt is really unfortunate that Prof T has to describe it such that there is no other way. This in itself accounts for two notions: 1. It has to be a Westerness dagger: made by the Numenoreans... |
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