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Forum: The Books 12-13-2016, 09:19 PM
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Posted By Morthoron
Where exactly does this "undisclosed information"...

Where exactly does this "undisclosed information" come from? What font of knowledge does Seth have access that is unavailable to any other scholar...or casual reader making assumptions from their...
Forum: The Books 11-26-2016, 04:59 PM
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Posted By Morthoron
*Sighs* If Tolkien had written in an...

*Sighs*

If Tolkien had written in an allegorical sense, and had, as Ms. Seth makes the incomprehensible leap, used Tom as a stage prop to represent the audience, then why did Tolkien not ever...
Forum: The Books 10-15-2016, 10:01 PM
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Posted By Morthoron
Oh, the horror! And to think, I used to like...

Oh, the horror! And to think, I used to like Bombadil.



If you "partially" agree (is that like being half-dead?), what possible new "evidence" could you possibly supply that everyone here...
Forum: The Books 09-11-2016, 10:36 AM
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Posted By Morthoron
Oh, gosh, I have perturbed you. Whatever shall I...

Oh, gosh, I have perturbed you. Whatever shall I do? :rolleyes:



Simply put, it is not an allegory because Tolkien defined "allegory" with the caveat: " I think that many confuse applicability...
Forum: The Books 08-13-2016, 11:35 AM
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Posted By Morthoron
Occam's Razor would in this case incise the...

Occam's Razor would in this case incise the incredulity of Ms. Priya's postulation down to laughable bits of hocus-pocus with less prestidigtation than Bombadil's parlor trick.

The simple,...
Forum: The Books 07-09-2016, 10:08 PM
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Posted By Morthoron
Balfrog, I think you and your alter-ego, Dan...

Balfrog, I think you and your alter-ego, Dan Brown code-deciphering authoress should just take Tolkien at his word when he says:

"I don't think Tom needs philosophizing about."

And in that...
Forum: The Books 04-28-2016, 04:28 PM
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Posted By Morthoron
Yes, and I believe the anagram for "What, this is...

Yes, and I believe the anagram for "What, this is still going?" can be translated into Sindarin with a translation back into Westron as "Wash, rinse, repeat."
Forum: The Books 01-25-2016, 04:45 PM
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Posted By Morthoron
Depending on whether or not you wish to depend on...

Depending on whether or not you wish to depend on Giorgio Vasari's account (some of his biographical information is dubious), the great painter Botticelli (The Birth of Venus, Primavera, Adoration of...
Forum: The Books 01-23-2016, 08:53 AM
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Posted By Morthoron
Have you read Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum?...

Have you read Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum? It makes these other Dan Brown-type novels look like child's play. Perhaps that's because Eco is actually a professor of semiotics, and the satiric...
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