And what Tolkien explored in his essay on Maldon and ofermod.axordil wrote:What is tolerable--even admirable--for an individual warrior is far too rash and risky for a lord. That's the conundrum at the heart of Beowulf
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- Tue May 29, 2007 7:04 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Pride: Vice and Virtue (Beren)
- Replies: 52
- Views: 25354
- Tue May 29, 2007 7:02 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Hope in the Middle-east?
- Replies: 319
- Views: 106706
- Tue May 29, 2007 6:51 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Caring about Africa
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- Views: 59520
That's true whether it started under colonial occupation or only with corporate exploitation. But that type of corruption- bribery etc by self-interested colonialists or corporations- is only the tip of the corruption iceberg. The underwater 90% is local rulers- many of them barely more than brigan...
- Tue May 29, 2007 6:21 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Locke and Marx do Lego
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7332
Voronwë: Take a look at the toxic waste dump the old Soviet Bloc made of itself. Look at the environmental horrors going on in China. Look at that ultimate monument to calamitous hubris in the face of Mother Nature, the Aswan High Dam. And look at the literal junkyard states of Cuba and North Korea....
- Tue May 29, 2007 6:10 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Possible Racist Backlash of Virginia Tech Shootings
- Replies: 66
- Views: 22359
Speaking as a Virginian (although I attended The University, not the pretender), I can pretty confidently predict that such racial backlash as there is will be fairly subdued, and pretty much confined to the established hardcore bigot community. The reason? Racist stereotyping. Here (as with much of...
- Tue May 29, 2007 5:48 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 11 year old kills Giant Boar
- Replies: 52
- Views: 17036
- Tue May 29, 2007 5:39 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Roe v Wade has been overturned. How do you feel about that?
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- Views: 399978
Cards on the table first: I'm mostly pro-choice ('mostly' because I disagree with killing the kid minutes before the contractions start). But abortion-rights supporters had better wake up to what's going to be a very, very relevant fact in coming terms of the Supreme Court: Blackmun's Roe opinion, v...
- Tue May 29, 2007 5:18 pm
- Forum: 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
- Topic: The Obama Phenomenon and the 2008 Presidential Campaign
- Replies: 3736
- Views: 948280
Well, detailing policy during a campaign is *generally* unwise- but Obama is I think an exceptional case, bacause he has no track record. He's a blank slate, experience-wise. Many project onto that slate their own hopes and desires, and I expect a few their fears: personally I don't want to project ...
- Tue May 29, 2007 4:58 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Peace in Northern Ireland?
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- Views: 6350
- Tue May 29, 2007 4:52 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Would you vote for a Mormon president? (or highest elected)
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- Views: 55873
Maybe where we disagree is this: I would expect a candidate to decide according to what he thinks is best, not according to what his constituency wants. If a candidate does that, he/she is failing to follow the basic tenets of democracy, at least in the USA. A candidate is bound to follow the will ...
- Tue May 29, 2007 4:37 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Irish General Election.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5812
Back to Life of Brian-- REG: Right. You're in. Listen. The only people we hate more than the Romans are the f*****g Judean People's Front. P.F.J.: Yeah... JUDITH: Splitters. P.F.J.: Splitters... FRANCIS: And the Judean Popular People's Front. P.F.J.: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Splitters. Splitters... LORETTA: ...
- Tue May 29, 2007 4:28 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: When is PC too PC?
- Replies: 565
- Views: 181813
- Tue May 29, 2007 3:31 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: 11 year old kills Giant Boar
- Replies: 52
- Views: 17036
After all, every pound of 'free range' meat somebody shoots represents one pound less demand on a factory feed lot someplace. Which is more inhumane? Re: deer. I hear you. They have become a bloody plague here in Virginia, which, it is estimated, has a whitetail population today 50% greater than whe...
- Tue May 29, 2007 3:23 pm
- Forum: Tolkien Script Writing
- Topic: LOTR III. Flight into Peril
- Replies: 50
- Views: 79016
- Tue May 29, 2007 3:02 am
- Forum: Tolkien Script Writing
- Topic: LOTR III. Flight into Peril
- Replies: 50
- Views: 79016
- Mon May 28, 2007 8:29 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: The Second Prophecy (and related subjects)
- Replies: 81
- Views: 197675
- Mon May 28, 2007 8:19 pm
- Forum: Tolkien Script Writing
- Topic: LOTR III. Flight into Peril
- Replies: 50
- Views: 79016
- Wed May 02, 2007 2:24 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: The Second Prophecy (and related subjects)
- Replies: 81
- Views: 197675
I thought it might be germane to consider the late wrapper-notes Tolkien made on his Atlantis accounts. He listed an Elvish account, a Mannish account, and a blended (Dunedainic) account. The last is plainly the Akallabêth, which was literally blended from the older versions, and which in one place ...