So, there are no Tolkien fans here who will join me in frothing at the mouth over what the basiaads did to Faramir? And the Ring goes to Osgilliath?! At this...
... in, ... It was the little things I liked about the Elves; in the Last Alliance scene in FotR when the rear rank archers shoot between the front rank,...
I need a quote for an academic essay that covers the following: The scientific process: - Step 1 is to observe and describe phenomena. - Step 2 is to form a...
... detail (I know I do), perhaps this is the uniqueness of space craft, perhaps it is the demanding nature of the performance characteristics, specifically...
... For what it's worth, there is a satire of this at http://www.besse.at/sms/smsintro.html The cornerstone of modern science is the scientific method....
I understand your objections about Faramir - but most of what Tolkien wrote on the subject, like 25 pages of his mental deliberations and conversations and...
... True - careful to spot that indeed. Too bad Legolas, who can put one between the eyes of a goblin at extreme range in a dark mine, couldn't manage the only...
I don't remember the author of this, but it seems a good thought for SFCONSIM-L at New Year's: Remember, though the telescope extend Few manifestos that time...
Mike Dugan wrote: "I was born in 1958 - had to have the vaccine before they'd let me in school. I realize that this makes me a dinosaur around here....:-) " ...
Wednesday, January 01, 2003, 12:01:54 PM, Michael wrote: MS> I understand your objections about Faramir - but most of what Tolkien wrote MS> on the subject,...
I suspect there are few fossils about the area (I'm only junior to you by two years) - I can still remember the conversation with my daughter a couple of years...
... This is one of the reasons I'm glad I left the computer game company I worked at before they started making their Tolkein MMP. It's No Fun investing years...
... you by two ... couple of ... 1959 here so that makes 2 of us dinosaurs. BTW, while I've been kind've sitting on the outside of this particular conversation...
Chris L'Etoile wrote: <snip> I pretty much agree on all accounts (Except for neo-Faramir). I enjoyed both movies once I deactivated "Tolkien Fan Mode." As ...
... noble ... Yes. This may be heresy, but I think the film's treatment of Faramir is stronger. He faces the same temptation as Boromir, and NEARLY gives...
In a message dated 02/01/2003 17:56:51 GMT Standard Time, ... I appreciate that Rick is on the other side of the pond, but have you heard the BBC radio version...
... Moving Frodo temporarily in the wrong direction is probably good; an _awful_ lot of stuff happens elsewhere while Frodo and Sam are busy creeping across ...
Briefly mentioned by Rick was a reference to my generic spacecraft builder. You may find it a starting point in which to develop your own design system. It...
... The book makes it pretty clear that crossing the mountains into Mordor is an awfully difficult and timeconsuming thing to do, even moreso for Frodo and Sam...
I had huge objections to the mistreatment of Faramir in the movie. At first. Then I went and looked at it again, and read up on the passages where Faramir is...
OK, my guesses such as they are... One of the things that I had pointed out to me is that the movie ends a few hundred pages before the book does. One of the...
... of ... TTT finished early, is all. Frodo, Gollum and Sam have still to enter Cirith Ungol, and the others have still to visit Isengard. FotR finished a...
Greetings: Well, my $0.02 (split-adjusted)... I went to see Ralph Bakshi's LOTR when it opened. That piece of crapola so disappointed me that I had very low...
My daughter (age 8) was sure that she would be terrified if she saw the LOTT:TT. She made the statement that her eyes would be closed if she went to that...
You knw, the who "Frodo has been spotted" argument doesn't bother me much. Sure, the Ring has been seen...IN GONDOR. Makes Aragorn's use of the Palantir all...
