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- Sat May 06, 2006 9:35 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Pride and Prejudice: Adaptations of Austen
- Replies: 944
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'I know your disposition, Lizzy. I know that you could be neither happy nor respectable, unless you truly esteemed your husband; unless you looked up to him as a superior. Your lively talents would place you in the greatest danger in an unequal marriage.' Just wondering if any of the anti-Mr. Benne...
- Fri Apr 07, 2006 7:31 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Pride and Prejudice: Adaptations of Austen
- Replies: 944
- Views: 422662
I think there was attraction between them - a spark or whatever expression you will - right from the start. That is not love, of course. Jane very largely invented (or at any rate, popularized) the scenario of the antagonists/lovers. People have been ripping her off ever since. I recently posted on ...
- Thu Apr 06, 2006 7:05 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Pride and Prejudice: Adaptations of Austen
- Replies: 944
- Views: 422662
Fascinating character, Mr. B. There are a couple of other men in Austenverse who appear to be out of the same mould. Austen makes it clear that the plight of an intelligent person married to the wrong partner was pretty grim. The author gives us several instances of unsatisfactory marriages in her n...
- Sun Apr 02, 2006 6:48 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: The Scouring of the Shire
- Replies: 16
- Views: 15209
Re: The Scouring of the Shire
I don't understand what "Boys Own Paper" means. Just realized that I never explained this term. Boys Own Paper was a British magazine dating from Victorian times. It was a cut above the "penny dreadfuls" but followed that formula of simple storytelling. BOP told tales of derring...
- Sun Apr 02, 2006 4:36 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Pride and Prejudice: Adaptations of Austen
- Replies: 944
- Views: 422662
- Sat Apr 01, 2006 12:12 am
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Pride and Prejudice: Adaptations of Austen
- Replies: 944
- Views: 422662
How completely turned 'round we have become in a little more than a century. Nowadays it is physical passion that is extolled by our society and I think any other basis for marriage is regarded as illegitimate, while virtue has become a dirty word. It would be interesting to trace the tracks of tha...
- Sat Apr 01, 2006 12:02 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: The Lord of the Rings Musical
- Replies: 125
- Views: 133013
If it really comes to London next year, I'll definitely arrange to see it there, unless some very major obstacles will come in my way. (Then, it might even be possible to plan a moot around the show.) :D Well, that sounds very tempting! Can anyone who has seen the show post comments on the Scouring...
- Sat Apr 01, 2006 12:00 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: The Scouring of the Shire
- Replies: 16
- Views: 15209
- Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:54 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: The Scouring of the Shire
- Replies: 16
- Views: 15209
- Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:49 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Pride and Prejudice: Adaptations of Austen
- Replies: 944
- Views: 422662
CHAPTERS 45-50 SPOILERS If she was alive today, Jane could make a fortune writing mystery thrillers. :D (J.K. Rowling is hugely influenced by her.) Her plots are so telescoped, her clues so cunningly distributed and she practices Chekov's Rule so admirably. And it never feels contrived. This turn o...
- Sat Feb 04, 2006 10:13 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Heroines and Villainesses
- Replies: 23
- Views: 27532
I find it easier to answer if I break the topic down a bit and consider female characters created by particular authors. Dickens's female characters are hopeless. Dora is particularly unbearable, but most of his girls are nearly as bad. Bunch of legless virgins. I blame Dickens's extreme sentimental...
- Wed Jan 25, 2006 1:48 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: The Scouring of the Shire
- Replies: 16
- Views: 15209
Unpopular and misunderstood, rather than controversial perhaps. Didn't Jackson say that he didn't understand why it was included (paraphrasing from memory)? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Besides the TORC thread, I have found the essay I referred to: http:...
- Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:39 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Pride and Prejudice: Adaptations of Austen
- Replies: 944
- Views: 422662
I read an essay once which argued that Mr Collins was being quite generous in making his offer to Elizabeth. The hilarious/ghastly fact is that the guy is really quite eligible, as a clergyman with a living, a generous patroness, and also heir to Longbourn. That is how his world sees him (not sure h...
- Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:01 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: The Scouring of the Shire
- Replies: 16
- Views: 15209
The Scouring of the Shire
Anyone want to discuss one of the most controversial parts of LOTR: the Scouring of the Shire? We had a good discussion going on this once upon a time at TORC, before it collapsed in semantics and Shagrat’s (remember him?) obsession with orcs and half-orcs. http://forums.theonering.com/viewtopic.php...
- Mon Jan 23, 2006 1:55 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Memorable Lines and Short Passages
- Replies: 50
- Views: 25375
Surely this is on many posters list of favourite quotes... There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft,...
- Wed Jan 11, 2006 9:47 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Pride and Prejudice: Adaptations of Austen
- Replies: 944
- Views: 422662
People plunged into intimacy very quickly, I think, in those days. Couples often became engaged after a few dances and sharing a glass of wine. It was largely because they seldom met people outside their own order, I guess. This was true even a century later, with people of gentility (or pretension...
- Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:40 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Éowyn, Shieldmaiden of Rohan
- Replies: 108
- Views: 55777
On the face of it, Aragorn might seem a better match for Éowyn than Faramir, given the heroic role he plays in Rohan, the bond he forges with Éomer and his key part in causing Éowyn to take the drastic action which sends her to defend Theodeon on Pelennor Fields. It can look, to a casual eye, that É...
- Sat Jan 07, 2006 3:07 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Éowyn, Shieldmaiden of Rohan
- Replies: 108
- Views: 55777
Great posts (especially the Maiden :)) - and thanks to all for keeping this thread going. Most of my on-line time is taken up with my screenplay writing, but I could never see myself losing interest in discussing Tolkien. :) I'm doing a comparison between Faramir and Aragorn - more on that later. Fo...
- Thu Dec 29, 2005 8:53 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: The hands of a king are the hands of a healer
- Replies: 42
- Views: 89133
- Sat Dec 24, 2005 11:58 pm
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: The Chronicles of Narnia
- Replies: 124
- Views: 50383