The Hall of Fire

TIGG wrote:

Aravar wrote:
. That's what I thought people would be unfamiliar with: both the use of gong for medal, and particular British decorations.

you never counted on this Kiwi thinking that way straight off.

I didn't discount someone from the Empire (oops.. I mean Commonwealth) getting it.

I was thinking cymbals too, or perhaps symbols. It is KOBE it isn't so much KBE and OBE, but simply K on it's own for knighthood (one can speak of getting a K), together with OBE. That's what I thought people would be unfamiliar with: both the use of gong for medal, and particular British decorations.

It is one of the four-letter ones in your list, Mith. And TIGG is also on the right lines.

axordil wrote:Trying to imagine Elgarian music for LOTR---

Sorry, my head exploded. Gotta tidy up my cubicle now.

So, you're saying that something of the tone of the Introduction and Allegro, or Cockaigne, or Nimrod wouldn't work?

In mayn ways I think PJ would be better for The Hobbit than I tihnk he was for LOTR. It is a far less serious work than LOTR and I think his style would work. It strikes me as so odd that people think of LOTR as somehow not "serious". What movie did everyone else watch? The vast majority ...

Losing Howard Shore wouldn't bother me that much. I've never understood the enthusiasm for the score. WHAT?????????????????????????????????????????????????? :shock: :shock: :shock: I just have never found it particularly moving. The onmly memporable them is the 'Fellowship' one and that's pretty sh...

In mayn ways I think PJ would be better for The Hobbit than I tihnk he was for LOTR. It is a far less serious work than LOTR and I think his style would work. Even if PJ doesn't do it, and I very much suspect that he will*, hopefully Lee and Howe will be back on the project. I think it is their inpu...

Well I thought Hugo Weaving was too grumpy, Viggo Mortensen not kingly enough, and Orlando Bloom just wooden.

Will that do?

Prostitution is not legal in my city, but it is common enough. The red light district (okay, it's a city block) has bars where you can spend $100 for a bottle of champagne...and that includes a private room and a woman. In one of my regualr pubs you can spend far more than that on a bottle of champ...

No-one's answered my

Two gongs for a Japanese city (4)

yet

Sounds like a negotiating position to me, but then I'm a cynical lawyer.

Yes, it's real, but to stick the word "run" into the clue, so that people will know they need to stick an 'r' somewhere in the solution is incredibly far-fetched! That's what I mean by contrived. If you don't know the conventions, it seems to be impossible to solve the puzzle. How do peop...

Absolutely - that's what I said. It's just that , for me, there comes a point when the arbitrariness is so contrived that it's just groanworthy. To use one of your examples, Run for R because it's in Cricket. English for E. So, would "short English thanks" make "tea" or would so...

Seeing an insane Canadian, without insanity's start.


Runs and hides....

truehobbit wrote:(Much worse, IMO, than the much quoted opposite example of German not having a word for "fluffy". )

Sorry to intrude into a seroius discussion, but your operas do last for three days; and you still haven't provided a synonym for the 'f-word'.

Cruise is the same as McKellen

It's a kind of puzzle that has certain conventions, I don't think I can explain it any clearer. Conventions are fine, Parma, I'm just saying that we mustn't mix up conventions and logic. You claimed that the cryptic crossword is completely logical, and maybe it is so within its own conventions, but...

because srting etc. aint words. Which, as I'm sure you know, is entirely coincidental. They might just as well be words. There is nothing inherent in the clue which tells you without doubt where the "r" should go, and that is what would be required if it were to be logical. That would be ...

Huh? :scratch: If the argument is one of letters, you could only convincingly say that all the letters in a word go around another letter, if that letter was exactly in the middle of the word. "String" is not "sting around r". Otherwise you could just take a word and stick in a ...

Any rate, I remain 100% convinced that a straight adaptation of The Hobbit should be made as ONE movie only. The purist in me would prefer two, provided they stuck as far as possible to the book itself and didn't use it as an excuse to bring in Aragorn material, or indeed too much about the attack ...