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Forum: Quiz Room
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Replies: 4,146
Views: 1,326,567
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Bombadil
Riddles in the Downs
One of my favorite parts in the hobbit is the Riddle-match between Gollum and Bilbo. So i thought, why not start a riddling game on anything in the hobbit and the lord of the rings, or even ME... |
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Forum: Quiz Room
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Replies: 745
Views: 112,163
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Forum: The Books
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Replies: 14
Views: 6,770
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Forum: The Books
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Replies: 14
Views: 6,770
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Bombadil
In the beginning of the hobbit, Tolkien says "...- what is a hobbit? i suppose hobbits need some description nowadays, since hey have become rare and shy of the big people, as they call us." What... |
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Forum: The Books
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Replies: 98
Views: 29,018
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i think the observation of frodo using the words: as a phrase with mutliple meanings is a great one. If Frodo said for example "I have chosen not" this could be taken as his decision, rather than the... |
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Forum: Haudh-en-Ndengin
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Replies: 215
Views: 144,071
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This thread has really taken a magnificent turn. After my previous posts I've been content to just read and thoroughly enjoy myself. Noncon, I'll say again what I've said a couple of times... |
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Forum: Haudh-en-Ndengin
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Replies: 215
Views: 144,071
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HAHA! That's hilarious! Worthy of a thread to start somewhere. |
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Forum: Haudh-en-Ndengin
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Replies: 215
Views: 144,071
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ADDENDUM: So why was the second word of the Melville title magically asterisked out? How amusing! Methinks there's a bug in the anti-profanity software! Let me try it again and see what happens:... |
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Forum: Haudh-en-Ndengin
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Replies: 215
Views: 144,071
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Actually, Androndo, the place where Abraham nearly sacrificed Isaac was called Moriah, not Moria. (Both my KJV and NIV Bibles confirm this.) Tiny little ticky detail, but the pronunciation is... |
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Forum: The Books
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Replies: 67
Views: 19,644
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I'm in the middle of Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch's first volume about the Civil Rights struggle in the Southern U.S. from 1954-63. It centers on MLK, but it also touches on many other lives. ... |
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Forum: Haudh-en-Ndengin
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Replies: 215
Views: 144,071
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So we ALL agree that one can interpret Tolkien as one wishes, Christian or non-Christian. Let's get that straight and stop bringing up that particular angle. What we disagree on is Tolkien's... |
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Forum: Haudh-en-Ndengin
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Replies: 215
Views: 144,071
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Bombadil
General agreement here, RJ. But I'm sure you didn't mean that the good guys in LOTR are purely good! Farmer Maggot wouldn't agree about Frodo, anyway . . . |
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Forum: Haudh-en-Ndengin
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Replies: 215
Views: 144,071
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Bombadil
I've posted these thoughts elsewhere, so pardon me if you're reading them again. If you want Christian/Biblical allegory couched in fantasy, turn to C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia. Those have... |
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