The Hall of Fire

I'll add my voice to this request. Although I am a notoriously bad linguist.

I would love to get NiennaSorrowing to come here. She is definitely one that could help with this. Does anyone have an email address for her?

Welcome, Din and Ro. I'm thrilled to have both of you here.

Sister Magpie wrote:Hey Voronwë! Good to see ya, man!

And you, my friend. Please make yourself at home.

Imp, the Ninth Circuit (which covers much of the western U.S.) is notorious for liberal opinions which are often overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. There is a quiet movement to split the court in two, since it is by far the largest of the Circuits (the Court of Appeals is the court just below the...

Never, Whistler!

I am quite confident in our ability to agree to disagree about these types of issues with style and grace.

Can I interest you in a small flask of absinthe?

Beautiful pictures, Sassy, Elfshadow, and Eru. Eru, that Iavas_Saar fellow is quite the photographer.

Sass, here is the Kindia picture:

Here is an excerpt from the opinion of Justice Goodwin of the Ninth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals, ruling that the pledge of allegiance as it currently exists and as it was applied in the particular school district involved in the case violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment....

Good lord, Lord M, that's an impressive post.

Oooh, what a cool idea. Thanks, Snowdog, Al, and Jn.

And a great big to my favorite elf, Tinsel.

Sister Magpie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111

Welcome, AS400wizard!

vison, to be honest, I believe that the Orcs can only be understood in the context of Tolkien's overall cosmology. As I said in the Orc tangent of the Bombadil thread at b77, I see the Orcs as the ultimate reflection of the Marring of Arda. They are incarnate beings that are almost entirely manifest...

I was only in Africa (Uganda) once, for 11 days, but I agree that the spirit world seems closer, more accessible there. Or perhaps it's just that the people are more aware and accepting of it. I think its both. I think it is more accessible there precisely because people are more aware and acceptin...

I don't believe it either. All one has to do is look at your avatar and one can just see how much intelligence is reflected in those eyes.

A great big welcome to Leoba and ShanndrahEartheart!

Kindia, Guinea, West Africa.

A horribly misleading title, of course. No one gets more upset at the lumping of the incredible diversity of cultures and beliefs of the vast continent of Africa into one homoginized stereotype then I do. And anyway, the spirits that I am speaking of are not limited to Africa. Its just where I learn...

Impy, I really like the way your mind works.

And I. And all of us. Precisely the difficulty I have had with it for years. I just try not to think about it. That way lies madness. ;) Then I must be mad, because for me, far from being a difficulty, I find this merging of free will and predestination to be one of the most profound things about T...