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Forum: The Barrow-Downs 01-02-2022, 06:56 PM
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And I don't look a day over 116.

And I don't look a day over 116.
Forum: The Books 01-02-2022, 06:54 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 19,176
Not quite -- I was still listed on the dept...

Not quite -- I was still listed on the dept website as a mere grad student, but by the time of the first go-round with this I was a fully fledged PhD in me own rights. Call the original thread a...
Forum: The Books 01-02-2022, 06:52 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 19,176
Uh oh.

Uh oh.
Forum: Novices and Newcomers 12-14-2020, 10:37 AM
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*whew*

Far from new but it feels like a fresh start -- I could not remember my password for the Downs and could not find it saved on either of my computers! For several days I was entirely locked from my...
Forum: The Books 08-21-2020, 12:42 PM
Replies: 44
Views: 17,391
Balrogs again

Yeah, but did they have wings? (Loathly or not.)
Forum: The Barrow-Downs 07-02-2020, 01:12 PM
Replies: 103
Views: 36,251
A dim figure, small and unobtrusive, cloaked so...

A dim figure, small and unobtrusive, cloaked so close about that he was hardly visible, sate in the corner quietly sipping a fine mug of ale. Pulling the pipe from his mouth and blowing out a...
Forum: The Books 01-12-2017, 05:19 PM
Replies: 78
Views: 39,758
Let's not get into this again.....

Let's not get into this again.....
Forum: The Books 11-01-2016, 02:20 PM
Replies: 44
Views: 23,954
Cause you asked for it

The final 1,078,564 words (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=10593)on the subject.
Forum: The Books 10-28-2016, 01:57 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 12,433
I need a snack

I've always seen evil in Middle-Earth not as a presence (the Manichean heresy) but as absence (nicely orthodox of me and fitting for our very religiously conservative professor): in particular, as an...
Forum: The Books 10-28-2016, 11:09 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 7,271
So why the big secret?

Well, having considered the matter I tend to subscribe to a new, combination theory I suppose -- that it was originally #3 (a fragmentary 'mistake' by the author as a result of many drafts and...
Forum: The Books 10-26-2016, 02:47 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 7,271
A tidbit

A quick review of the relevant thread from the CBC forum finds this post:

http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showpost.php?p=347496&postcount=8

In which Davem (who else?!) throws some potentially...
Forum: The Books 10-26-2016, 01:44 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 7,271
Gandalf....fortune teller??

Quick Query About Something I Have Wondered About For Years:

In Gandalf's letter to Frodo in the chapter "Strider" (you all know it: the letter that Barliman neglects to deliver), Gandalf adds the...
Forum: The Barrow-Downs 09-23-2016, 07:17 AM
Replies: 4,512
Views: 921,767
I'm actually around the Forums quite a bit -- I...

I'm actually around the Forums quite a bit -- I just don't post anymore, being much more content to read and think.
Forum: The Barrow-Downs 09-22-2016, 01:43 PM
Replies: 4,512
Views: 921,767
Thank you for the good wishes, they make me feel...

Thank you for the good wishes, they make me feel fifty years younger!
Forum: The Books 02-09-2016, 12:11 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 7,579
*Big cheerful wave back*

*Big cheerful wave back*
Forum: The Books 02-02-2016, 04:38 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 7,579
Bwahahaha

Love it.
Forum: The Books 07-07-2014, 06:53 AM
Replies: 47
Views: 24,257
Depressing idea

I think the truly sad answer to the question is that to the minds of many (Tolkien and myself included) Sauron did win and is now very much in the process of laying waste to the Earth in the pursuit...
Forum: The Books 01-09-2014, 12:04 PM
Replies: 159
Views: 65,828
Bilbo's greatest moment

The only thing that matters to Bilbo is trying to find a way to prevent all-out war and he's willing to betray his friends and give up all hope of treasure if that means he can stop the killing. He's...
Forum: The Books 10-22-2013, 09:46 AM
Replies: 51
Views: 19,225
What the Professor says

"It is not difficult to imagine the peculiar excitement and joy that one would feel, if any specially beautiful fairy-story were found to be “primarily” true, its narrative to be history, without...
Forum: The Movies 10-21-2013, 08:21 AM
Replies: 283
Views: 110,715
Then see it in Spanish: El Hobito. "Donde esta...

Then see it in Spanish: El Hobito. "Donde esta Smauga? Aqui? EEEEEYAAAAA, vamanos Thorino!"
Forum: The Movies 10-17-2013, 10:50 AM
Replies: 283
Views: 110,715
I still say it was a fun movie. And the new one...

I still say it was a fun movie. And the new one looks fun too. It ain't The Hobbit, but it looks fun nonetheless. Somebody pass me the popcorn.
Forum: The Books 07-09-2013, 11:48 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 8,551
Saruman the fool

It really just shows how foolish Saruman has become: in his reckoning, the loss of power in Middle Earth that Galadriel and the Elves now face is terrible; for a long time (until she was tested by...
Forum: The Movies 01-20-2013, 06:53 PM
Replies: 283
Views: 110,715
Yeah: what Phillip Said

I could write a lengthy review or simply post this link -- the best review I've read of the film (written, incidentally, by one of the best writers of YA fantasy).
...
Forum: The Movies 01-19-2013, 05:45 PM
Replies: 130
Views: 81,404
Hell, I liked it

I saw the film over the hols and thoroughly enjoyed it -- sure, it wasn't the book, but I wasn't expecting it to be. I was very pleasantly surprised to see how much of the 'added' material was...
Forum: The Movies 10-22-2010, 12:33 PM
Replies: 43
Views: 13,188
More about the cast

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/47150
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