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Forum: Haudh-en-Ndengin
10-12-2002, 06:35 AM
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Replies: 91
Views: 70,475
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Bęthberry
Haunted by Clarissa indeed. We do need to find...Haunted by Clarissa indeed. We do need to find our way to chat, Nar. smilies/smile.gif This can be a fruitful distinction between the earlier characters and moderns ones, yet, to me, the... |
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Forum: Haudh-en-Ndengin
10-11-2002, 11:54 AM
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Replies: 91
Views: 70,475
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Bęthberry
davem, but all you asked for was a list. ...davem, but all you asked for was a list. smilies/wink.gif The question gets into defining criteria for plausible or believable characters and also recognizing historical determinants in... |
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Forum: Haudh-en-Ndengin
10-11-2002, 07:42 AM
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Replies: 91
Views: 70,475
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Bęthberry
I must begin with apologies to lmp, for taking...I must begin with apologies to lmp, for taking this discussion so far away from the faerie elements around the Shire, but, if you bear with me, I hope to bring it 'round eventually. Davem, ... |
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Forum: Haudh-en-Ndengin
10-10-2002, 10:11 AM
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Replies: 91
Views: 70,475
Posted By
Bęthberry
Hello Nar,
Not so much denied access,...Hello Nar, Not so much denied access, really, as come face to face with lingering assumptions and culural habits. Bear with a little tale of autobiography, if you will. The day I defended my... |
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Forum: Haudh-en-Ndengin
10-10-2002, 08:46 AM
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Replies: 91
Views: 70,475
Posted By
Bęthberry
lmp,
I don't know your reference to Joy...lmp, I don't know your reference to Joy Davidman--I watch virtually no television and am happily ignorant of much pop culture. However, that you joke about the limitations of Goldberry's... |
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Forum: Haudh-en-Ndengin
10-10-2002, 07:27 AM
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Replies: 91
Views: 70,475
Posted By
Bęthberry
lmp,
Yes, you are right, and I do...lmp, Yes, you are right, and I do admit that there is much in the Old Forest that is germane to LOTR, in attenuated ways which require active work on the part of the reader. However, I... |
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Forum: Haudh-en-Ndengin
10-07-2002, 01:44 PM
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Replies: 91
Views: 70,475
Posted By
Bęthberry
I'm not sure how relevant this is to your...I'm not sure how relevant this is to your observation about Tom and Goldberry, lmp, but here is something from a character in a nineteenth century novel. Two young women are outside church, deciding... |
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Forum: Haudh-en-Ndengin
10-04-2002, 07:57 AM
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Replies: 91
Views: 70,475
Posted By
Bęthberry
Pearce, Joseph, ed. Tolkien: A Celebration,...Pearce, Joseph, ed. Tolkien: A Celebration, Collected writing on a literary legacy. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1999. ISBN 0-89870-866-4 EDIT: I should say that Murray fits my own theory of... |
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Forum: Haudh-en-Ndengin
10-04-2002, 07:24 AM
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Replies: 91
Views: 70,475
Posted By
Bęthberry
'Morning All,
lmp, yes, thanks for...'Morning All, lmp, yes, thanks for recognizing and acknowledging the Picnic this way. *curtsies* That was indeed the hope, but fear not, there could well be future excursions planned....... |
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Forum: Haudh-en-Ndengin
10-03-2002, 08:25 AM
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Replies: 91
Views: 70,475
Posted By
Bęthberry
Drowning? Us? Where's that Lonely Star when we...Drowning? Us? Where's that Lonely Star when we need her? smilies/wink.gif lmp, don't mind me. As a citizen of a former colony of England, I take umbrage at the idea that the blessed isle (the... |
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Forum: Haudh-en-Ndengin
10-02-2002, 08:24 AM
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Replies: 91
Views: 70,475
Posted By
Bęthberry
LOL, isn't this a postmodern web of intertextual...LOL, isn't this a postmodern web of intertextual meanings, running back and forth between threads! Child, I fully intend to reply to you on your thread. Just give me time. I have the feeling that... |
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Forum: Haudh-en-Ndengin
10-01-2002, 09:57 AM
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Replies: 91
Views: 70,475
Posted By
Bęthberry
My apologies, lmp, if this post goes too far...My apologies, lmp, if this post goes too far astray of your original idea. Child, I would like to look at the larger passage of that letter from 16 December 1937 (Letter 19, to Stanley Unwin). ... |
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Forum: Haudh-en-Ndengin
09-30-2002, 08:05 AM
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Replies: 91
Views: 70,475
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Bęthberry
I don't want to deny the main tenor of your...I don't want to deny the main tenor of your point, Child, that The Shire is informed by a vision of England past. However, it seems to me that Goldberry is very much informed by Tolkien's vision of... |
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