vison, your words brought tears to my eyes this evening....good tears - the kind that come with smiles of recognition and memories and understanding.
Thank-you, from someone else who speaks to trees and longs to hear their answers.
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- Wed Aug 29, 2007 4:56 am
- Forum: Arda Unmarred
- Topic: Nature's Beauty Painted in Your Words
- Replies: 55
- Views: 74939
- Wed Aug 29, 2007 1:47 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Túrin's story and Tolkien's conception of God
- Replies: 25
- Views: 14082
And now for something completely different. :D On the purely practical side, if Nienor had been clad in the clothes of Menegroth (which I assume she would be, given that she had been living there) then surely Túrin would have recognized that, wouldn't he? And in doing so, wouldn't it have been possi...
- Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:28 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Am I wrong to be disturbed about this?
- Replies: 105
- Views: 39741
You would only be asked to produce a passport because you poor guys don't have an ID-card. If you had an ID-card, that would be sufficient Well, isn't a passport essentially an ID-card.......with pages? :D Personally, I think passports exist in their traditional form because Customs and Immigration...
- Tue Aug 14, 2007 1:11 am
- Forum: Tolkien Movies: The Road Goes Ever On
- Topic: Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh out of "The Hobbit"
- Replies: 190
- Views: 91405
Athrabeth, if I don't already know you from another place, may I make your acquaintence now? Hello. Pleased to meet you. :D I think we may have passed each other on the seas of TORC a few years back, but the shipping lanes there were pretty busy then. It's great to meet you, as well. :) Question to...
- Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:13 pm
- Forum: Tolkien Movies: The Road Goes Ever On
- Topic: Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh out of "The Hobbit"
- Replies: 190
- Views: 91405
Knowing the films is better than knowing nothing about LotR, which was true of most people before the films came out. But I hate to think of people deciding not to bother to read LotR because they saw the films—thinking they've had the full experience, when the book is so much more than the films e...
- Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:42 am
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Harry Potter - From the Beginning! (May refer to Book 7)
- Replies: 78
- Views: 36150
- Sun Aug 12, 2007 7:15 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Harry Potter - From the Beginning! (May refer to Book 7)
- Replies: 78
- Views: 36150
- Sun Aug 12, 2007 6:48 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Harry Potter - From the Beginning! (May refer to Book 7)
- Replies: 78
- Views: 36150
The more and more I read, the less and less I understand the ‘Snape is a really great guy and a better man than Dumbledore’ line. He hits a new all-time low with his ‘I see no difference’ line at Hermione’s cursed and rapidly-growing teeth. I can’t possibly understand why Lily didn’t want him… I do...
- Sun Aug 12, 2007 5:53 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Which character is most important to the greatness of LOTR?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 21312
- Sun Aug 12, 2007 1:20 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Which character is most important to the greatness of LOTR?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 21312
- Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:19 am
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: For young readers
- Replies: 62
- Views: 31391
- Wed Aug 08, 2007 12:59 am
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows reviews (SPOILERS)
- Replies: 97
- Views: 47054
Well, I thought it was a bit like letting the Eagles show up at the Battle of the Five Armies. Tolkien could have let Men, Elves, Dwarves and Beorn mop up the goblins. It's just nice to have all the good guys have a lick at the bad ones. And vice versa, I suppose I must admit, the Battle of the Fiv...
- Wed Aug 08, 2007 12:11 am
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows reviews (SPOILERS)
- Replies: 97
- Views: 47054
I can see that it's going to be tricky, now that all the books are available, to figure out the best time for a given child to begin them I've been thinking about that too, Prim. I really can't recall a series of books that has developed at essentially the same pace as both its characters and its o...
- Sun Aug 05, 2007 2:30 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Mythopoeic Society Conference in Berkeley August 2007
- Replies: 65
- Views: 53459
Voronwë, this was exactly the kind of news I wanted to hear after yet another stressful overnighter in the little Big City. :woohoo: I'm very glad that you're feeling so positive about the whole experience, and that, like a true maverick of the shiny persuasion, you caused the ruffling of a few feat...
- Fri Aug 03, 2007 7:45 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Harry Potter - From the Beginning! (May refer to Book 7)
- Replies: 78
- Views: 36150
Please, guys, I'm not stupid. I know that there's possible explanations for these things, I'm just telling you my gut feeling on a re-read is that JK was going with the flow a lot and tidying up loose ends after. There's nothing wrong with that. I'm not insulting the woman! Alatar, I don't think an...
- Fri Aug 03, 2007 1:29 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Splash!
- Replies: 31
- Views: 16052
- Thu Aug 02, 2007 10:58 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Harry Potter - From the Beginning! (May refer to Book 7)
- Replies: 78
- Views: 36150
Hmm. Sounds like a fudge to me. In the first book we're led to believe that this is the real reason he dislikes Harry, whereas we know there's far more to it than that. Well, of course there's far more to it, but surely Rowling wouldn't have had Dumbledore telling Harry that James and Sirius had bu...
- Tue Jul 31, 2007 5:46 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Harry Potter - From the Beginning! (May refer to Book 7)
- Replies: 78
- Views: 36150
Finally, we are told that the reason Snape hated James more than anything was because he saved his life. Now, maybe I'm missing something here, but I have no recollection of this. Perhaps Dumbledore is speaking figuratively, in that he saved Snape from being a DeathEater, but that was really Lily, ...
- Fri Jul 27, 2007 7:29 am
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: What song are you listening to? HOF version!
- Replies: 57
- Views: 21520
- Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:08 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: What are you reading?
- Replies: 746
- Views: 193081
Wampus! I didn't see your post! :hug: I'm so glad to hear that the Ladies Detective Agency books are close to your heart, as well. This particular book has caused me to finish two chapters with tears in my eyes, but they are never tears of despair, but rather tears that come with the tender sorrows ...