The Hall of Fire

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News of a related ruling of the ICJ on Bosnian claims against Belgrade. There does seem to be an effort by all to sweep up the dead leaves and put all this in the past. Milosevic River, how does S view the future of the region? Does he think that peace will hold or that fighting will break out again...

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Gack! Osgiliath! Lots of orcs! (I'm just pulling everyone's chain, Faramond.) I didn't really perceive that much thematic content in the movies, at least not content that corresponded to Tolkien's themes. I believe that the screenwriters made some points of their own, however, which we discussed onc...

vison wrote:So, tell me. Does any of this high-toned discussion apply AT ALL to the movies?

In my opinion, no. The movie was about orcs. Lots and lots of orcs. It's an NZ thing.

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Faramond, thank you. No, I don't recall what thread it was in ... I seem to recall writing it as a sidebar to some other discussion, like, we were talking about a particular event in the book and it reminded me that the event was (imo) culturally determined, which launched a whole sub-topic in my mi...

Sorry I let so much time go by before getting back to this discussion! I had started composing a post and couldn't finish it ... but I'll try to put up some abbreviated ideas right now. Prim, you had comments on my observation that the Eagles made this a Christian faery tale ... Emphasis mine, and I...

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