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Forum: The Barrow-Downs
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Replies: 107
Views: 18,270
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Amarinth
woah! this'd be my first post after, say, five months! hmmm, i remember a friend emailing me one bd quiz and getting hooked. took me quite some time to finally notice the forum and join it.... |
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Forum: Middle-earth Mirth
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Replies: 1,605
Views: 474,961
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Amarinth
been out of commission (as usual) for the longest time, and the first thing that catches my attention is this--- lush, you are irrepressible, i'm falling off my chair laughing... here's just 5... |
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Forum: The Barrow-Downs
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Replies: 43
Views: 17,967
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Amarinth
ingkling elf, i sure hope my niece gets tolkien-mania from me, counting on the genes i am smilies/wink.gif. nice to know you're a book worm smilies/smile.gif i mean many of my younger relatives... |
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Forum: The Barrow-Downs
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Replies: 43
Views: 17,967
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Amarinth
hi nevvasaiel! thanks, she's actually my niece, but i am trying my very best to appropriate her from her parents for my own smilies/wink.gif glad to see many asian tolkien fans! |
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Forum: The Barrow-Downs
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Replies: 43
Views: 17,967
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Amarinth
hey inkling elf! i'm from manila, though my work in volcanoes takes me practically everywhere in the flips smilies/wink.gif but starting next month i'll be based in sapporo, hokkaido, where i'll... |
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Forum: The Barrow-Downs
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Replies: 43
Views: 17,967
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Amarinth
hey neferchoirwen, we're kababayans! and if i remember correctly, you had your picture posted in alkanoonion's mempix site, right? kaya pala you look pinoy (= nice to have at least two fellow... |
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Forum: The Books
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Replies: 36
Views: 11,755
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Amarinth
hi doug smilies/smile.gif i'm no real proficient, but what i understand of deus ex machina - hand of god - is that it is that literary device where the central conflict cannot be resolved by any... |
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Forum: The Books
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Replies: 25
Views: 12,245
Posted By
Amarinth
interesting discussion. i agree that elrond was never called king nor held its title simply because by the third age the elven kingdoms had diminished (and continued to diminish) significantly, to... |
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Forum: The Movies
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Replies: 30
Views: 8,403
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Amarinth
i checked out the oscars website and ttt actually got nominated in six categories -- <B>best picture, sound, sound editing, art direction, visual effects and film editing</B>.<P>folks in the other... |
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Forum: The Movies
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Replies: 46
Views: 11,884
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Amarinth
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Arwen shoud have been played by that chick from Gladiator <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>that was indeed connie nielsen, fingo, yeah she would have made a great arwen too . she has that... |
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Forum: The Books
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Replies: 56
Views: 18,354
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Amarinth
great thread! yeah i agree with gorwingel and birdie, we can't draw conclusions with one test case. more than that, had galadriel been much younger, or had she been offered such a weapon of power... |
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Forum: The Books
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Replies: 22
Views: 7,542
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Amarinth
hi birdie smilies/smile.gif off the top of my head, i remember it said in lotr that sauron also needed the one for him to take physical form in the world once more (or something to that... |
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Forum: The Books
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Replies: 50
Views: 12,491
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Amarinth
i've always thought it an irony that, during the time when the armies of noldorin princes in beleriand were constantly laid to waste by morgoth, it took a half-elven woman and a man to get this close... |
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Forum: The Movies
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Replies: 5
Views: 5,316
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Amarinth
a mellon sent me this write-up, whence it came i know not (does anyone here?)...seems pj's movies are giving the dark lord some manner of complex eh...<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Good evening,... |
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Forum: The Barrow-Downs
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Replies: 430
Views: 61,062
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Amarinth
thanks alkanoonion. me and my precious do look good together eh? i see it ok unlike the others, a teeny bit blurry though, maybe because of the low res? btw, compliments to my fellow barrowdowners... |
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Forum: The Barrow-Downs
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Replies: 430
Views: 61,062
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Amarinth
smilies/smile.gif hi alkanoonion! please buzz me if you got my email... again, congratulations on the excellent work, and for bringing out the faces on such excellent folks! |
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Forum: The Books
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Replies: 27
Views: 9,177
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Amarinth
beautifully expressed, doug smilies/smile.gif frodo fails because of an evil power he cannot overcome, yet the seed of his past deeds bears fruit and saves him and ME in the end. my $0.02: i've... |
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Forum: The Books
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Replies: 27
Views: 10,240
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wow this is a great thread! i've not read HoME yet, but being a geologist i find myself inclined to agree with the version here as piosenniel detailed in her first post. thanks btw for sharing that,... |
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Forum: The Barrow-Downs
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Replies: 30
Views: 9,316
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Amarinth
congratulations, tulkas! btw, the reverse happened to me...i was supposed to be member 480+ but after reg was dished out this really nicely rounded number. and you're exactly one order of magnitude... |
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Forum: The Barrow-Downs
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Replies: 27
Views: 11,998
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Amarinth
...which prods me to edit my sig poem...sorry mr. h, and thanks herenistarion for the inadvertent bzzzzt.... smilies/biggrin.gif |
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Forum: The Movies
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Replies: 11
Views: 4,349
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Amarinth
i remember an earlier link here to an interview of EW right after TFOTR where he openly admitted to not having read LOTR at all. brrr; i thought at the time that, whatever, at least he's cool enough... |
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Forum: The Books
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Replies: 13
Views: 6,230
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Amarinth
what a refreshing take on sea-longing, mr. underhill. are you by chance alluding to death-longing resonant with greek and egyptian mythology -- charon and anubis taking the dead by boat to their... |
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Forum: The Books
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Replies: 9
Views: 4,932
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Amarinth
just on a tangent--- My guess would be that Galadriel made a new staff for him, but to be honest I don't have any real reason for it; it just seems to be part of her whole approach to caring for... |
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Forum: The Books
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Replies: 12
Views: 5,392
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Amarinth
tolkien agreeably has illustrated that power does not necessarily equate with physical prowess and skill, as you guys above have amply said smilies/wink.gif. and more to this, tolkien also showed... |
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Forum: The Books
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Replies: 23
Views: 9,842
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Amarinth
nicely put, ravenna. "destiny" i agree would be the more appropriate word for the prophecy of the north, a path the actions of the departing noldor opened up for themselves with the choices they... |
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