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Forum: The Books
04-04-2020, 02:31 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 10,737
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William Cloud Hicklin
To call the W-K a dwimmerlaik was also an insult,...
To call the W-K a dwimmerlaik was also an insult, since it implies that he was nothing more than a phantasm, an illusion, a false creation of Sauron's (like the mock-Eilenel that ensnared Gorlim)... |
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Forum: The Books
03-29-2020, 09:43 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 7,656
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William Cloud Hicklin
Well, in terms of durability the 50th Anniversary...
Well, in terms of durability the 50th Anniversary leather-bound deluxe US Houghton Mifflin one-volume is very well constructed indeed, although maybe a bit too "nice" - and bulky - for a daily... |
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Forum: The Books
03-27-2020, 02:38 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 7,656
Posted By
William Cloud Hicklin
Sadly, the standards of bookbinding have...
Sadly, the standards of bookbinding have descended very, very r4apidly over the last 30 years or so. If you really want a last-forever reading copy, see if you can find one surplused from a... |
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Forum: The Books
03-22-2020, 10:11 AM
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Replies: 54
Views: 46,283
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William Cloud Hicklin
Malaria means literally "bad air," because it was...
Malaria means literally "bad air," because it was believed by the ancients to be caused by the noisesome vapors of swamps and marshes. |
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Forum: The Books
03-21-2020, 09:41 AM
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Replies: 54
Views: 46,283
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William Cloud Hicklin
Long before Pasteur, people had observed that...
Long before Pasteur, people had observed that contact with or proximity to infected people, or objects associated with them, led to contagion. Quarantine was used a thousand years before germ theory!... |
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Forum: Novices and Newcomers
03-20-2020, 02:30 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 33,592
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William Cloud Hicklin
Tolkien had a passing notion to give the Dark Elf...
Tolkien had a passing notion to give the Dark Elf some very un-elflike traits including constant sore throats, and name him Garglin, but rejected the idea. |
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Forum: Novices and Newcomers
03-14-2020, 09:42 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 17,965
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William Cloud Hicklin
Uffington is late Bronze/early Iron Age, and has...
Uffington is late Bronze/early Iron Age, and has been believed to be such since before Tolkien ever went up to Oxford (confirmed in the 1990s). Even Saxon and early Norman writings refer to it as... |
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Forum: Novices and Newcomers
03-14-2020, 09:34 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 17,965
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William Cloud Hicklin
Tolkien unequivocally said that the theatre of...
Tolkien unequivocally said that the theatre of action was "the North-west of the Old World, east of the Sea," and that the Shire lay at "the approximate latitude of Oxford;" putting both together... |
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Forum: The Books
03-14-2020, 09:26 AM
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Replies: 160
Views: 60,879
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William Cloud Hicklin
Pullman's attitude reminds me very much of...
Pullman's attitude reminds me very much of Moorcock's "epic Pooh" putdown, and I think both come from a similar place: they are didactic writers, polemicists as much as novelists, and they can't... |
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Forum: The Books
03-11-2020, 10:44 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 7,131
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William Cloud Hicklin
I like it. Althogh I'm surprised that neither...
I like it. Althogh I'm surprised that neither mentioned Tolkien's most direct lift from Beowulf, admittedly not in TH itself: the guard's challenge in Rohan. (In the draft, Tolkien rendered it in... |
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Forum: The Books
03-08-2020, 01:20 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 22,375
Posted By
William Cloud Hicklin
Excellent! Thank you!
Especially...
Excellent! Thank you! Especially significant- and Clausewitzian - were his comments on the "morale battle," and why it is dispositive in warfare*- something that Tolkien knew, and PJ evidently did... |
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Forum: Novices and Newcomers
03-05-2020, 12:43 PM
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Replies: 33
Views: 69,644
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William Cloud Hicklin
However, the Nine had all been distributed long...
However, the Nine had all been distributed long ere the final days of Numenor. The Nazgul had already appeared ca. SA 2250, a thousand years before |
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Forum: The Books
02-12-2020, 06:47 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 13,075
Posted By
William Cloud Hicklin
No. He painted or drew very little for The Lord...
No. He painted or drew very little for The Lord of the Rings- and for "Fangorn" he just recycled an old picture of Taur-nu-Fuin from the 20s! |
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Forum: The Books
02-01-2020, 11:52 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 8,156
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William Cloud Hicklin
Define "Middle Ages". In the early centuries...
Define "Middle Ages". In the early centuries practically every place in the West recently ruled by the Roman Empire spoke Latin, except for Britain. Already, though, demotic vulgar Latin differed... |
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Forum: The Books
01-26-2020, 08:04 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 7,720
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William Cloud Hicklin
The "Star of the Dunedain" was worn as a badge by...
The "Star of the Dunedain" was worn as a badge by the Dunedain, but it appears to have been a quartermaster-issue item, not an ancient relic. Elessar much later gives one to Sam, so it must have... |
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Forum: The Books
01-19-2020, 08:07 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 12,632
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William Cloud Hicklin
I posted this on another forum, but thought I...
I posted this on another forum, but thought I would share it here. This is what I will remember: his wit, his intellect, and above all his kindness. (As well as extraordinary skill at saying "no"... |
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Forum: The Movies
01-19-2020, 07:58 AM
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Replies: 42
Views: 44,073
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William Cloud Hicklin
At this point it's all speculation, since we have...
At this point it's all speculation, since we have no clue what the new legal arrangements or dramatis personae are going to be. Remember, CRT never relinquished the position of literary executor,... |
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Forum: The Movies
01-18-2020, 11:32 AM
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Replies: 42
Views: 44,073
Posted By
William Cloud Hicklin
Perhaps so, but Baillie and Michael George are...
Perhaps so, but Baillie and Michael George are still on the board, and the impression I get of Adam is that his attitude is rather like his father's. Simon on the other hand.... |
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Forum: The Movies
01-16-2020, 05:54 PM
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Replies: 42
Views: 44,073
Posted By
William Cloud Hicklin
I'm basically expecting this to be every bit as...
I'm basically expecting this to be every bit as bad as the Hobbit movies, crossed with The Last Jedi and Ishtar. That leaves room to be pleasantly surprised. |
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Forum: The Books
01-16-2020, 05:49 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 12,632
Posted By
William Cloud Hicklin
“Therefore in this world I cannot think of a...
“Therefore in this world I cannot think of a reason Why my soul does not blacken when I seriously consider All the warriors, tested at war, How they suddenly sank to the floor, The brave kinsmen.... |
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Forum: The Books
12-06-2019, 10:17 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 13,530
Posted By
William Cloud Hicklin
still doesn't work
Frodo: "If you really care about me, you will keep that dead secret. See? If you don't, if you even breathe a word of what you've heard here, then I hope Gandalf will turn you into a toad and fill... |
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Forum: The Books
11-20-2019, 09:24 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 9,934
Posted By
William Cloud Hicklin
It's often forgotten today that Tolkien was...
It's often forgotten today that Tolkien was considered one of his generation's leading Chaucer scholars- not for nothing did Masefield choose him to recite Nun's Priest's and Reeve's* at the 1938 and... |
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Forum: The Books
11-20-2019, 09:18 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 9,848
Posted By
William Cloud Hicklin
Well, the collection was certainly made with...
Well, the collection was certainly made with Tolkien's (and EV Gordon's) permission, since they made it! But the printed booklet certainly was done without, a decade after Tolkien left Leeds. |
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Forum: The Books
10-20-2019, 08:21 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 9,934
Posted By
William Cloud Hicklin
Well, somebody has "analyzed" his note on...
Well, somebody has "analyzed" his note on sigelhearwan and found it racist..... :mad: |
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Forum: The Books
10-08-2019, 06:51 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 28,091
Posted By
William Cloud Hicklin
Unless he saw the Noah legend as a worn-down...
Unless he saw the Noah legend as a worn-down memory of the Fall of Numenor. Or perhaps a dim memory of the destruction of Beleriand. |
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