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- Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:46 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Should Racism Be A Crime?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 20272
Well, maybe I wasn't at my clearest on Friday afternoon just before home time, because I'm still not sure if we're talking about the same thing. :roll: I'm not against anybody expressing their opinion, however controversial or paranoid; it's just about how the opinion is expressed, and if there's mo...
- Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:11 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Should Racism Be A Crime?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 20272
OK, to clarify my stance on this subject: 1) Racism and xenophobia are concepts, and concepts are abstract. Of course, a concept can be defined illegal, but how can a penalty be inflicted for just harbouring a specific concept? In this, I think the treaty text is misleading. 2) I'm perfectly fine wi...
- Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:12 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Should Racism Be A Crime?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 20272
Again, a short answer - I'll get back at this subject in general more thoroughly later, after I've had time to do some background research. Rowanberry, which is your society, and what exactly is illegal there? To an American, the idea that someone can go to jail for publishing a pamphlet, even the K...
- Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:48 am
- Forum: The LOTR Discussion
- Topic: Book 1, Chap. 3: Three Is Company
- Replies: 45
- Views: 68895
- Wed Jun 25, 2008 1:09 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Should Racism Be A Crime?
- Replies: 68
- Views: 20272
Soli, you definitely read in that text just what you want to see in it. I've got no time at the moment to answer to you more properly; doing it would require much more than the ten minutes I've got before going home. I'll just say for now that, in my country for example, the legislation already does...
- Wed Jun 25, 2008 12:24 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Life-Giving Ladies: Women in the Writings of J.R.R. Tolkien
- Replies: 31
- Views: 17790
- Thu Jun 19, 2008 11:20 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: The Lord of the Rings Musical - My review
- Replies: 142
- Views: 81356
- Mon May 26, 2008 11:35 am
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: Harrison Ford IS the Crystal Skull—SPOILERS
- Replies: 61
- Views: 22320
- Fri May 23, 2008 10:14 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: How young?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 14908
I think my daughter was 11 when she first read The Hobbit. I tried to offer it to her a couple of years earlier, but she was scared off by the runes on the title page. :D I believe she would have liked it already then, though. (And, that was before the LOTR movies were released, and she's never seen...
- Thu May 22, 2008 9:53 am
- Forum: The LOTR Discussion
- Topic: Book 1, Chap. 2: The Shadow of the Past
- Replies: 124
- Views: 126008
- Fri May 16, 2008 9:59 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Terrorist blasts in India, not a murmur here
- Replies: 33
- Views: 12168
I'm glad that your folks are safe, Mahima. :hug: The attack was a big piece of news here on the day it happened, but it was a bit buried under the news from the recent natural disaster areas and, of course, domestic news. One thing that can affect the reception of such news is, of course, what you s...
- Mon May 12, 2008 12:59 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: Tolkien's Mythology and Your Own Spirituality
- Replies: 30
- Views: 16456
That line resonates with me as well. In the middle of nature, I feel closer to the divine than I ever could in any church or temple.Voronwë_the_Faithful wrote:'There were no temples in this land. But on the Mountain we spoke to the One, who hath no image. It was a holy place, untouched by mortal art.'
- Mon May 05, 2008 11:16 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Music, classical or otherwise, for LOTR
- Replies: 70
- Views: 44436
I'll have to listen to the music samples after I get home, my work computer doesn't have any proper loudspeakers. :( Parts of Stravinsky's Rites of Spring always remind me of the great battles of the First Age, but maybe they could be used for Pelennor, for example. Also, I could see the Autumn and ...
- Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:26 am
- Forum: The LOTR Discussion
- Topic: Book 1, Chap. 1: A Long-Expected Party
- Replies: 115
- Views: 125171
Eru seems to want not only right actions, but freely chosen right actions, even though this opens the door to actions that are wrong as well. That, I think, is a very important aspect through the whole LOTR. All of the characters face situations in which they have to make a choice; and, if even one...
- Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:42 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: The Lord of the Rings Musical - My review
- Replies: 142
- Views: 81356
I bought the soundtrack yesterday, and just had to listen through it twice in a row. It was great. :clap: :thumbsup: I probably won't get a chance to see the show :( unless the World Tour they're planning will get to Finland or even somewhere in Scandinavia, or some of our theatres will take it up s...
- Fri Apr 04, 2008 11:45 am
- Forum: The LOTR Discussion
- Topic: Preliminary Thoughts
- Replies: 83
- Views: 137404
I think VTSG faltered in that, nobody was willing to do the introductions any longer, and some who had promised to do so just disappeared before it was their turn... :( Some kind of a loose schedule might be good, If we want to keep the discussion in one thread; no fixed time for each chapter, but r...
- Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:14 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Stop the World..
- Replies: 237
- Views: 55841
- Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:54 pm
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: Another debut...
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8093
- Sun Feb 17, 2008 4:43 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Hobbit dollhouse
- Replies: 26
- Views: 17085
- Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:10 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Tolkien's Emotional Universe
- Replies: 120
- Views: 69848
I think that Fëanor was seduced by beauty and tried to capture to keep it for himself in a way that was wholly untenable. We see the same thing in his desire to own a lock of Galadriel's hair (and what does that say of her willingness to grant Gimli the same request ages later?) I don't see Fëanor ...