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Last edited by Jtorsella; 05-18-2015 at 09:14 AM.
tolkien sucks! but to each their own, carry-on.
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Last edited by Jtorsella; 05-18-2015 at 09:15 AM.
Gulag Chief: "Article 58-1a, twenty five years... What did you get it for?"
Gulag Prisoner: "For nothing at all."
Gulag Chief: "You're lying... The sentence for nothing at all is 10 years"
Watching the movies really helps you become motivated enough to read the books, though I read the books first.
true enough. and it wasn't a lack of wanting to read big long books; i read tad william's first fantasy trilogy about the same time and really enjoyed it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory,_Sorrow,_and_Thorn
I love Tolkien, but see this thread as a distraction from working to WIN!
Don't let others get you down. Not naysayers, not pretenders, not appeasers, not opportunists; none of em.
What others do pales beside what YOU do.
Press on! - The r3VOLution continues...
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
~ C.Coolidge
Oh and I completely forgot -- Should I read unfinished tales?
I've never read any Tolkien, but I really want to. I just don't know which book to start with...he wrote so many!
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---John Lennon
"I EAT NEOCONS FOR BREAKFAST!!!"
---Me
Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
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Registered Ron Paul supporter # 2202
It's all about Freedom
I read the first two books. I don't like his anti-technology environmental message. I found it hypocritical.
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Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
Ron Paul 2004
Registered Ron Paul supporter # 2202
It's all about Freedom
In the beginning he talks about Hobbits and how they are no fans of "technology" and Hobbits are the idealized versions of his own British life. Unfortunately Tolkien didn't understand that the Hobbits are far more advanced in terms of technology than the other races (except Elves). They have big furnished houses with big fireplaces. They smoke pipeweed and even talk about gold paint for Bilbo's book!
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There will be a trailer released at 10 ET for the new movie: The Hobbit. This will be the first edited video from the movie. It is currently in filming.
I was glad that Tom Bombadil got editted out of the movies....
"The journalist is one who separates the wheat from the chaff, and then prints the chaff." - Adlai Stevenson
“I tell you that virtue does not come from money: but from virtue comes money and all other good things to man, both to the individual and to the state.” - Socrates
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