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tar-ancalime · 05-03-2005, 11:36 PM

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Certainly toast-making, re-organising one's stuff and even daytime TV have a strange attraction at that stage of the game.

It's true--ashamed as I am to admit it, I wrote much of my rough draft with the trashiest of trashy daytime TV on in the background. Perhaps this is the hidden meaning of the Bombadil/Old Forest chapters--the necessity of digression.

Having just tossed the Ring into the fire (only a week past deadline), I'm eagerly looking forward to the Fourth Age. Sadly, it seems thus far to be devoid of Viggo Mortensen....

Holbytlass · 05-19-2005, 03:40 PM

Very interesting. I hope that you do not remain in limbo.
Hmmm...LOTR and trashy t.v. But who would be voted out first?

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh · 12-07-2005, 09:55 AM

Difficult though it may be to believe, Tolkien never wrote a PhD thesis. Like his inaugural lecture, his doctorates came at the end of his academic career. I think that we must consider another, slightly odder, possibility.

This theory is approaching the issue from the wrong side. Clearly the current PhD system has been remade as an allegory of Tolkien's novel, probably by faculties made up of those starry-eyed readers from the 1960s. It's probably part of a dark conspiracy to keep Beowulf on the undergraduate English syllabus.

Tuor of Gondolin · 12-07-2005, 10:24 AM

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It's probably part of a dark conspiracy to keep Beowulf on the undergraduate English syllabus.

THAT'S IT!!!

Captain Grishnahk · 12-16-2005, 05:10 PM

*steps in shaking*
"Am i doing anything wrong by posting here!?"
*quickly leaves after saying that he enjoyed reading the paragraphs above*
"AHH!! Someone's bound to PM telling me that i did somthing wrong! NO! NO!"
*exits*

05-19-2005, 03:40 PM	#2
Holbytlass Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2003 Location: The Party Tree Posts: 1,042	Very interesting. I hope that you do not remain in limbo. Hmmm...LOTR and trashy t.v. But who would be voted out first? __________________ Holby is an actual flesh-and-blood person, right? Not, say a sock-puppet of Nilp’s, by any chance? ~Nerwen, WWCIII

12-07-2005, 09:55 AM	#3
The Squatter of Amon Rûdh Spectre of Decay Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Bar-en-Danwedh Posts: 2,178	The awful truth Difficult though it may be to believe, Tolkien never wrote a PhD thesis. Like his inaugural lecture, his doctorates came at the end of his academic career. I think that we must consider another, slightly odder, possibility. This theory is approaching the issue from the wrong side. Clearly the current PhD system has been remade as an allegory of Tolkien's novel, probably by faculties made up of those starry-eyed readers from the 1960s. It's probably part of a dark conspiracy to keep Beowulf on the undergraduate English syllabus. __________________ Man kenuva métim' andúne?

12-16-2005, 05:10 PM	#5
Captain Grishnahk Wight Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 106	steps in shaking "Am i doing anything wrong by posting here!?" quickly leaves after saying that he enjoyed reading the paragraphs above "AHH!! Someone's bound to PM telling me that i did somthing wrong! NO! NO!" exits __________________ "Faithless is he who says farewell when the road darkens." --J.R.R. Tolkien