The Hall of Fire

I didn't like it.

My experience was almost exactly like Lali's! I would have preferred the film with fewer orcs, fewer heads flying, and less barrel-riding! Oh, and what I hated most was Thorin riding a plume of molten gold. NO. I'm fine with the bending of the rules of physics, to a certain extent, but hot stuff tha...

Passdagas the Brown wrote: My review: In DOS, PJ lost his marbles. He spilled them all over Laketown, Mirkwood and the Lonely Mountain. And I enjoyed every crazy minute of it. Yov added: Has anybody checked the temperature in hell recently? Apparently COLD COLD COLD!!! Golly, now even I'm getting e...

Well, we're all going to see it in Paris Sunday, so here's hoping the good reviews are the ones who've got it right!

Well, one of my kids "won" the lottery for tickets to the 50th anniversary Dr. Who extravaganza events in London on Saturday, November 16, so I'm taking three 15yos on the train to London for a birthday weekend bash! I, however, have never seen a single Dr. Who episode. I suppose I'd bette...

Oh wow!!! Aren't those those famous wonderful drummers I've heard so much about???

I wish you could!!! I'd love to have another grown-up along to chatter with!

The girls are all 15, and grew up steeeeeeped in Harry Potter, so I think they will get a kick out of it. (We are going to have a practically Alatarian weekend, in the sense of "seeing all the things!"--it's the girls' birthday season, so their collective present is London, with Saturday's...

And Alatar, Inanna's post right above is why I haven't stepped an inch into the computer version of Middle Earth! No computer games allowed for me, I'm afraid. I'd love to look over someone else's shoulder for ten minutes, sometime, just to get a feeling for it, though. By the way, I'm taking the gi...

I am very bad at making lists! But here's an attempt (science-fiction that clobbered me or messed with my mind): The Space Child's Mother Goose (Frederick Parry) Flatland (Abbott Abbott) The Martian Chronicles (standing in for all of Ray Bradbury) The Lathe of Heaven (I was so thrilled to see Ursula...

V, I am loving these pictures--my favorite place in the world!

I have been reading this thread with interest and affection. One comment: "If we are mean and horrible people" (in Frelga's earlier post) means (I believe) "If we turn out (which is most unlikely) to respond viciously and unfeelingly to your post, Anthy, and thus reveal ourselves (des...

Feel better, Prim!
spring colds, so common and so seasonally inappropriate

Oh, SirD, as my kids would say: Awkward!

Probably it was true, of course. But why'd the fortune cookie have to out you so ruthlessly?

Thank you, everybody, for this thread! It is helping me understand my cyberbrothers and cybersisters who are Post Deleters a little better. :) I am a historian by nature, so deleted posts make me unhappy and uncomfortable, NOT because of anything interpersonal or emotional, but just because I don't ...

My favorite Stephenson is ANATHEM, the first two-thirds of which I loved with a deep and abiding (but also logical and geometric) passion.

Hal, I saw this blog post this morning, and it spoke to me, so I thought perhaps it might speak to you, too! http://www.diycouturier.com/post/47249603128/21-tips-to-keep-your-shit-together-when-youre I liked the way it rebuts the "oh, just try harder to be happy!" line of thinking, which c...

I am very sad about this. He was my hero for two very different reasons: 1. I took part in a week-long seminar run by him in 1991 or 1992 (long ago!) in Boulder, where in front of a theater's worth of people he dissected THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, shot by shot. It was an amazing experience and taught...

Well, my suggestion for anyone who's feeling a little disappointed in THE HOBBIT is to quickly go see OZ, THE GREAT AND POWERFUL. Now THAT is a travesty! Imagine being an Oz fan--as much an Oz fan as the people here are Tolkien fans--and going to a movie where everything that made Oz Oz has been und...

What Sir Dennis's lovely post made me think of:

"....walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in every one."
George Fox, 1656