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Forum: The Movies 07-12-2016, 06:38 AM
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Posted By Faramir Jones
White-Hand Some of us went off-topic

I agree completely with Zigūr that some of us (including myself) went off-topic with this thread. :eek::o It started out with Evangeline Lilly, and an interview in which she showed she didn't have a...
Forum: The Movies 07-06-2016, 06:52 AM
Replies: 74
Views: 39,927
Posted By Faramir Jones
Middle-earth a pre-industrial, Feudal, Pagan world?

Marwhini, you said that outside the Shire, Middle-earth was a 'pre-industrial, Feudal, Pagan world'. I would disagree with this description in the last 2 parts:

1. Lake-town: This appears to be a...
Forum: The Movies 07-06-2016, 06:24 AM
Replies: 74
Views: 39,927
Posted By Faramir Jones
Boots Quiet lads and lasses

At the start of The Hobbit, Bilbo asked if Gandalf was 'responsible for so many quiet lads and lasses going off into the Blue for mad adventures?' (My emphasis) Tolkien therefore allowed for female...
Forum: The Movies 07-04-2016, 09:07 AM
Replies: 74
Views: 39,927
Posted By Faramir Jones
Pipe It depends what one means by 'Modern'

My own view is that you can call J. R. R. Tolkien 'Modern' in terms of dealing with, not just the issues of industrialisation and urbanisation, which he was familiar with, having grown up close to...
Forum: The Movies 03-09-2016, 05:55 AM
Replies: 74
Views: 39,927
Posted By Faramir Jones
Eye Thanks for the link

Thanks for the link, Aaron. What I read is, very sadly, not surprising...:(
Forum: The Movies 03-08-2016, 07:16 AM
Replies: 74
Views: 39,927
Posted By Faramir Jones
Question Very interesting

That's very interesting, Aaron. If true, she, as well as ourselves, was also lied to by the relevant people.:mad::(
Forum: The Movies 03-01-2016, 09:36 AM
Replies: 74
Views: 39,927
Posted By Faramir Jones
Eye What we were told at the time

In terms of what you said here, Aaron:

In truth, it's the result of the whole ethos of the movie. The actress isn't to blame. They wanted to make The Hobbit into an action trilogy, and she got...
Forum: The Movies 01-29-2016, 08:25 AM
Replies: 74
Views: 39,927
Posted By Faramir Jones
Question Some interesting contributions

An interesting contribution, Michael, which leaves the question open about how this pregnancy happened without some magical or divine intervention, or both...:confused::eek:

It reminds me of the...
Forum: The Movies 01-18-2016, 09:27 AM
Replies: 74
Views: 39,927
Posted By Faramir Jones
Boots Do you hate men, Miss Austen?

Would we get the same kind of response if an actor playing a character in an adaptation of a work by Jane Austen said that he would have liked to ask her the question, 'Do you hate men?':rolleyes:
Forum: The Movies 01-18-2016, 07:53 AM
Replies: 74
Views: 39,927
Posted By Faramir Jones
White-Hand Something coherent drowned in incoherence

While I agree with you, IxnaY AintsaY, that Ms. Lilly was trying to say something coherent, it was drowned in a greater amount of incoherence.

She began by saying that her question was 'sassy',...
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