The Hall of Fire

Bing Crosby and David Bowie???



I would simply LOVE to hear that, Alatar!

<is still trying to figure out what connection the Flintstones can possibly have to Motown>







I think I need a glass of wine now.

I do so love the music of Christmas! In our house, it doesn't feel like Christmas until we put on the Roche sisters' CD, "We Three Kings". Maggie and Terry and Suzzie................we loves them! :love: Their versions of "For Unto Us A Child is Born" (from the Messiah) "The...

Ah, Voronwë..........I see that you've returned to your "flowing waters" theme. :) Hmmmmmm..........is that a pic of Victoria Falls? There's snow outside here, and the sunlight is causing it to sparkle like a blanket of white gems, so I've been thinking about the crystalline nature of snow...

tinwë!!1

'nuff said.

Spooky!

Yet somehow, very kewl!

Can't agree with this - or, rather, can't agree with "...that threatens the very heart of wisdom and will." in the case of the Silmarils The ring seeks to subjugate Will. That is its raison d'etre. The Silmarils stand like blind justice: they weigh the measure of each person who comes int...

Voronwë, that last paragraph of yours reminded me of something that I wanted to say in the Sil discussion, but never really had the time to flesh out properly. I was thinking how similar (in some ways) the Silmarils are to the Ring. Each beautiful beyond measure to the beholder. Each the greatest wo...

Voronwë, I'll see your cheetah on the African savannah and raise you a cougar in a snowy northern forest................. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v727/Athrabeth/bust.jpg I've had this photo for a long time, and it still makes me sw00n with each new viewing. What a magnificent creature! :lo...

Oh my!

That was fast!

So many wonderful people to welcome! It is such a treat to see you all!

I've got snow to deal with here.......or at least driving home in it.

Once I'm loaded up with provisions *cough*Shiraz*cough* I'll be back to join the fun!

Sassy : your picture of the glade of bluebells under the beeches actually brought tears to my eyes, it is just so magically beautiful. We have bluebells planted under a venerable old apple tree in our garden. We dug them out a meadow of an old derelict farm that was condemned to become a trendy sub...

Prim! My husband and I got to Crater Lake on a camping holiday once. "Impossible blue" is a wonderful way to describe its colour. The closest blue that I can think of is that of lapis lazuli, which is my very favourite gem, which although classified as "semi-precious", is most d...

Ooooooo...........I LIKE teh shiny prize! :love: The colour of Lake Louise is quite astonishing, isn't it? I've seen it a couple of times, and once it looked just like liquid emerald, and the other time, more like milky turquoise. I think it depends on the light and season. Yesterday, I noticed that...

Is that Lake Louise?

Oh my! That last pic is just incredible, Whistler! I am fascinated with the form and power of tornadoes............fascinated and terrified at the same time, actually. Tolkien wrote of "terrible beauty", and for me, that's exactly how I feel whenever I see photos and films of them. Living ...

There's a thread for daily nature photos, and these guys that are so good with cameras have been putting up the most astounding pictures. Jny, I'm not THAT good with a camera............I'm just exceptionally adept at Googling. :halo: It's like getting a little mint on your pillow at the end of eac...

Ethel! [/size][/b] :love: Well, Jny may not have her bucket of photos ready, but I sure do. First of all, on behalf of all of us at the Hall of Fire, may I present you with this lovely bouquet of roses: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v727/Athrabeth/bouquet-of-roses.gif ............this gift box ...

<Well, here goes!> I've done a bit of editing in the first couple of paragraphs because some of my references are not really applicable here: I sat down several weeks ago to write my own responses to Tom’s character, quite certain that I knew what I wanted to say, quite sure of what Bombadil means ...

<<<Sw00000ns>>> [/size][/b] * for Voronwë's hibiscus (geez, that sounds more than a little rude, doesn't it? :suspicious: ) It's one of my favourite kinds of flower, you know. I've never noticed the five-sectioned "flute" at the end of the stamen before.........I love the way close-ups li...

<is blushing again>

Like Sass, I'd like to see that entire thread over here, but I'll happily copy and paste my post as a starting point to another excellent discussion.

Well, this post is still not entirely complete (what else is new?), but I thought I’d submit it now so that the probing questions and articulate rebuttals that will inevitably follow :love: can hopefully help me form some more solid thoughts on the matter. Thinking about how to express my own shadow...