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- Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:56 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Magic and Morality in Tolkien, Lewis and Rowling
- Replies: 37
- Views: 18958
I think the books of all three writers are suffused with a strong moral sense. Lewis's are the most obviously Christian; I'm tempted to say - the most heavy-handedly Christian. Rowling keeps religion off stage, while the presence of witches in her books has led to ridiculous claims that she promotes...
- Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:45 am
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Shall we read "Great Expectations"?
- Replies: 162
- Views: 64577
Had Dostoyevsky (sp?: can't be bothered to check) invented Miss Havisham the lit critics would be drooling on about the great psychological insight etc of the great Russian authors unlike the parochial English novelists, etcetera.... (I think I've read too many snobbish literary critics.) I also thi...
- Sun Aug 06, 2006 7:55 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Shall we read "Great Expectations"?
- Replies: 162
- Views: 64577
- Mon Jul 31, 2006 7:48 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Shall we read "Great Expectations"?
- Replies: 162
- Views: 64577
- Fri Jun 30, 2006 11:02 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Who do you think will die in the last Harry Potter book?
- Replies: 124
- Views: 55703
Rowling is no stylist, that's for sure. However, I simply don't care. :) Luna won't see Book 7 out. She has no dramatic function, so I suppose her dramatic function is... to die. And that line about the DA was like having friends.... that didn't ring true. Rowling is manipulating us into feeling sor...
- Wed Jun 28, 2006 12:16 am
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Pride and Prejudice: Adaptations of Austen
- Replies: 944
- Views: 428862
- Sat Jun 17, 2006 9:33 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Pride and Prejudice: Adaptations of Austen
- Replies: 944
- Views: 428862
- Fri Jun 16, 2006 12:43 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Your favourite Tolkien artistes
- Replies: 299
- Views: 290656
- Tue May 30, 2006 10:27 pm
- Forum: Welcome to Our Messageboard! COME HERE FIRST
- Topic: GREETINGS to our Newest Members!
- Replies: 2822
- Views: 968317
- Sat May 27, 2006 8:56 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Pride and Prejudice: Adaptations of Austen
- Replies: 944
- Views: 428862
Mr Collins is marvellously done, even by the high standards of this production. Mrs B's dilemma would be affecting if she was presented more sympathetically. After all, if her husband died she and her daughters would be left with next to nothing, not even a roof over their heads. I've said before - ...
- Thu May 25, 2006 7:51 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Pride and Prejudice: Adaptations of Austen
- Replies: 944
- Views: 428862
- Wed May 24, 2006 8:24 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Pride and Prejudice: Adaptations of Austen
- Replies: 944
- Views: 428862
Excellent post Ethel. The first scene dramatizes something always implied in Austen's novels: the contrast between her men and her women in terms of their freedom of movement. The men are nearly always depicted striding here and there, or riding. When a situation becomes unpleasant, they can decamp ...
- Sun May 21, 2006 12:57 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Pride and Prejudice: Adaptations of Austen
- Replies: 944
- Views: 428862
- Wed May 17, 2006 11:57 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Harry Potter (No book 7 spoilers, please)
- Replies: 116
- Views: 53776
I was probably reading too much into Dumbledore's comment about Voldemort and the diary. Yes, Snape told him how Voldemort reacted. The reference to the lost powers of the diary are actually explained - Voldemort told Lucius that the diary would open the CoS. So Dumbledore is unlikely to have told S...
- Mon May 15, 2006 10:51 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Were all orcs evil?
- Replies: 102
- Views: 51977
Queen B: I agree. There is a blending of the mead hall and the trenches in JRRT's villians, of the dehumanized and the all-too-human. In a way, though he would probably hate me saying so, it's a very modern look at which evils we can stomach being in human form and which we can't...or can we? What ...
- Sun May 14, 2006 9:44 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Were all orcs evil?
- Replies: 102
- Views: 51977
My take on this is that, in creating the orcs, Tolkien tried to reconcile two very different approaches to story-telling. The first is the ancient mode, in which the enemy of Man is the Other, a monster, usually a mythical critter like the Minotaur, or a troll. The Other is a soulless beast, so no n...
- Mon May 08, 2006 8:10 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Harry Potter (No book 7 spoilers, please)
- Replies: 116
- Views: 53776
- Sun May 07, 2006 1:13 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Your favourite Tolkien artistes
- Replies: 299
- Views: 290656
- Sat May 06, 2006 10:47 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Harry Potter (No book 7 spoilers, please)
- Replies: 116
- Views: 53776
- Sat May 06, 2006 9:40 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Harry Potter (No book 7 spoilers, please)
- Replies: 116
- Views: 53776
I read the first book over a weekend. It reminded me of when I was 13 and reading The Hardy Boys. I think they are fine for their audience, but I realize I am not their audience. Saw the first movie and liked it. Fell asleep a half hour into the 2nd movie and haven't watched a minute since. I am no...