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Forum: The Books
07-20-2016, 07:32 AM
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Replies: 47
Views: 33,337
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Marwhini
I seem to recall reading this exact sentiment,...
I seem to recall reading this exact sentiment, but I think it was from Christopher. And this does seem to be rather the implications surrounding his descriptions of the Worship of Morgoth that... |
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Forum: The Books
07-20-2016, 07:02 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 8,906
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Marwhini
Sam isn't an Ent.
We do not know by what...
Sam isn't an Ent. We do not know by what Mechanism the One Ring produces the effects it produces. Gandalf knew enough to leave the Ring alone. As did Galadriel. As did a lowly Man,... |
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Forum: The Books
07-20-2016, 06:37 AM
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Replies: 47
Views: 33,337
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Marwhini
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Forum: The Movies
07-20-2016, 04:08 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 14,418
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Marwhini
I knew this about Boorman.
It is one of the...
I knew this about Boorman. It is one of the reasons I got to thinking about "who would be cast." Although technically Excalibur was an 80s film (Production in 79/80, released 1981). And the... |
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Forum: The Books
07-20-2016, 04:00 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 18,870
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Marwhini
In Morgoth's Ring, specifically the Athrabeth...
In Morgoth's Ring, specifically the Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth, Tolkien does mention that Morgoth, or one of his lieutenants, got out to Hildórien to muck things up for the Early Humans in... |
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Forum: The Books
07-20-2016, 03:52 AM
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Replies: 30
Views: 18,870
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Marwhini
I could swear that in The Hobbit Bilbo mentions...
I could swear that in The Hobbit Bilbo mentions that there were "Snake-men" out in the Sandy Deserts to the far-East-of-East. I think that was just Hobbit-Myth, though (A Fairy-tale in a... |
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Forum: The Books
07-20-2016, 03:45 AM
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Replies: 47
Views: 33,337
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Marwhini
Wut?
Mordor a Democratic Republic?
I...
Wut? Mordor a Democratic Republic? I did not get the feeling that the Orcs got to vote on anything. This isn't a reference to that Russian Monstrosity? MB |
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Forum: The Books
07-20-2016, 03:41 AM
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Replies: 47
Views: 33,337
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Marwhini
I have seen this argument as well.
And I can...
I have seen this argument as well. And I can both see it, and not see it. Tolkien seemed to be terrifically opposed to Modernity, and the idea that any form of Bureaucratic/Hierarchical... |
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Forum: The Books
07-20-2016, 03:25 AM
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Replies: 47
Views: 33,337
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Marwhini
BTW, Zigūr,
Are you familiar with the works...
BTW, Zigūr, Are you familiar with the works of Lord Dunsany (Edward Plunkett)? Specifically his Gods of Pegćna. It is another instance of a literary device like the Red Book of Westmarch,... |
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Forum: The Movies
07-20-2016, 02:58 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 14,418
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Marwhini
Better cast for Aragorn and Faramir:
Michael...
Better cast for Aragorn and Faramir: Michael York and Richard Chamberlain. And Peter Cushing and John Geilgud as Saruman and Gandalf. And I am pretty sure that Graham Chapman would have been... |
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Forum: The Movies
07-20-2016, 02:55 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 22,308
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Marwhini
Uhm!
Did not the One Ring need to be dropped...
Uhm! Did not the One Ring need to be dropped specifically into the Sammath Naur, which was INSIDE Orodruin? Tolkien seems to have been pretty specific that it had to be the "Fires that Forged... |
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Forum: The Books
07-20-2016, 01:13 AM
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Replies: 93
Views: 46,920
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Marwhini
Yes and no.
We have no ABSOLUTE Foundational...
Yes and no. We have no ABSOLUTE Foundational Theory for the universe in which we inhabit now. And much of the Theory upon which it rests is wholly untestable unless we find some way to get... |
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Forum: The Books
07-19-2016, 09:50 PM
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Replies: 40
Views: 29,358
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Marwhini
In these respects Aragorn shows again the strain...
In these respects Aragorn shows again the strain of Tragedy that touched all of Tolkien's threads: That Aragorn has a duty that is not his own doing, but one that has been thrust upon him. And... |
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Forum: The Books
07-19-2016, 09:28 PM
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Replies: 93
Views: 46,920
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Marwhini
That is kind of my point
Fictional...
That is kind of my point Fictional or not, the "Supernatural" is explainable given the assumptions Tolkien makes about the world. Nor does it make it a lost cause. That it is similar to... |
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Forum: The Books
07-19-2016, 07:32 PM
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Replies: 93
Views: 46,920
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Marwhini
That is my plan.
I hadn't much hope that...
That is my plan. I hadn't much hope that anyone would understand the issues I am trying to address to begin with. It would be nice to have a bit more help in creating a detailed Foundation for... |
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Forum: The Books
07-19-2016, 07:17 PM
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Replies: 93
Views: 46,920
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Marwhini
And I'll say it a third time:
If you don't...
And I'll say it a third time: If you don't understand the point of what I have been talking about, then I don't suspect you ever well. Nor do I suspect that you will understand a great deal of... |
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Forum: The Movies
07-19-2016, 04:23 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 14,418
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Marwhini
Purely Frivolous Speculation: The Lord of the Rings ('75) - What if?
Suppose that a Live-Action production of The Lord of the Rings (or The Hobbit) had been done in 1974 - 1979. Who do you suppose would have been cast in the various roles? Would they have made... |
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Forum: The Books
07-19-2016, 02:22 PM
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Replies: 93
Views: 46,920
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Marwhini
What was that about Trolls?
It's pretty easy...
What was that about Trolls? It's pretty easy to mock something that you don't understand (or are trying very hard to dismiss, and thus not understand). Because if you did understand what I had... |
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Forum: The Books
07-19-2016, 02:19 PM
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Replies: 93
Views: 46,920
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Marwhini
I am not confusing them for fact.
I am...
I am not confusing them for fact. I am simply pointing out that a means of deriving answers for Middle-earth that do not produce contradictions exists. And that this seems to be what Tolkien... |
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Forum: The Books
07-19-2016, 02:17 PM
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Replies: 93
Views: 46,920
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Marwhini
We have numbers to plug into them (We have...
We have numbers to plug into them (We have Tolkien's estimates for a population of Hobbiton, Gondor, and Rohan; and we have even more precise numbers given in the sizes of the military forces for... |
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Forum: The Books
07-18-2016, 09:53 PM
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Replies: 93
Views: 46,920
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Marwhini
Of course it would be a fiction, because it is...
Of course it would be a fiction, because it is being used to describe things that cannot exist in this universe. But that does not negate that this was a singular goal of Tolkien's, nor that such... |
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Forum: The Books
07-17-2016, 10:35 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 16,329
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Marwhini
I saw that "Debate."
And I am more than a...
I saw that "Debate." And I am more than a little suspicious of it's motives, and how closely it mirrors Truth, given the respective participants, and the words it puts in the mouths of the... |
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Forum: The Books
07-16-2016, 11:19 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 16,329
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Marwhini
I agree here.
While I am intensely curious...
I agree here. While I am intensely curious about the pure History of Middle-earth (beyond the Myths and Epics surrounding the Heroes), I think that this story could have wound up pulling Tolkien... |
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Forum: The Books
07-16-2016, 10:57 PM
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Replies: 93
Views: 46,920
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Marwhini
And, as a point about some of the assumptions of...
And, as a point about some of the assumptions of the Lotka-Volterra Models. It is possible to including Initial Conditions for different assumptions. Such as that the Prey Population does not... |
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Forum: The Books
07-16-2016, 10:50 PM
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Replies: 93
Views: 46,920
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Marwhini
Just as a Start:
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Just as a Start: http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange1/current/lectures/predation/predation.html The Lotka-Volterra Equations detail a rather detailed relationship between types of... |
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