The Hall of Fire

truehobbit wrote: (Oh, and, as it's the second time now the name appears in a thread-title: the spelling is "Nibelung" )

Strange, both spellings seem equally common:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ri ... gle+Search

Does Wagners treatment have the same Túrin parallels that I mentioned?

I really don't get it. The books were a ripping good yarn. The Film will be great fun, I'm sure. What's the big deal?

It was yelling. But I forgive you.

Edit:

Thanks for fixing the size!

No need to yell Cerin. I can hear you quite well.

Personally I feel that these "protests" do more harm than good to the Christian cause. They seem overly defensive and make someone like me immediately think "What are you afraid of? Surely belief is a personal thing." Even if people leave the theatre believing that every word is ...

Even the stylistic unevenness, though undeniable, is not a flaw for everyone. Some people love the "innocent" tone of the earlier chapters of Fellowship. And although the "childishness" not my favorite stylistic inconsistency, I actually love Tolkien's later shifts back and fort...

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scirocco wrote:

axordil wrote:You could construct a truth table with those two, Gandalf, and Tom Bombadil to describe the various possibilities for what happens to Ainu who spend a long time amidst mortality.

Except that Tom wasn't an Ainu. :D

Unless he was Manwë

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No, Tolkien was not a bad author, but he obviously had not quite settled on a style in the early parts of LotR. He started by attempting to stay fairly light, nore in the vein of the Hobbit, but soon found himself getting more serious. As such, the tone and style of Fellowship is very uneven. That c...

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Sorry SW, but I'm not really into fan fiction. Some of the very talented authors here could do a lot with that premise, but its not my forte.

Who knows? Perhaps they would have ridden to Minas Tirith together and Saruman would have betrayed them at a crucial moment. Perhaps he would have redeemed himself and died in battle with the Witchking.

Anythings possible.

Patience Grasshopper. We have to let people recover from the first two.

I presume you saw "Where there's a Whip" from the first post?

As when death smites the swollen brooding thing that inhabits their crawling hill and holds them all in sway, ants will wander witless and purposeless and then feebly die, so the creatures of Sauron ran hither and thither mindless; and some slew themselves, or cast themselves in pits, or fled waili...

True again. But then I wasn't showing this to demonstrate purism or lack thereof. I just think its funny.

Like I said, I love the books, but lets not pretend they're perfect. In as much as there's nothing perfect on this earth, it would indeed not make sense to pretend they were - but what you are doing, in fact, is to assume that your own criticisms represent real failings of the books, rather than ju...