The Shire or Mordor?

FatherOfTwo · **Posted:** Mon Apr 25, 2005 10:37 am

MicroHydro wrote:

Unfortunately, for much of the population of the world, it will be like Mordor. Alberta and Wyoming will be Mordor for sure.

Oh bloody hell. Here we go again. You mind backing up that prediction with some facts? And, you might want to read
http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic6745.html first.

Grimnir · **Posted:** Mon Apr 25, 2005 10:44 am

BigBear wrote:

Tolkein was a veteren of WW1 and his son, who completed the Trilogy was a veteren of WW2.

Whoah, whoah, whoah. J.R.R Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings and all the other Middle-Earth tales entirely on his own. His son, Christopher, edited The Silmarillion and several other collections together out of his father's papers, but did no original writing of his own aside from a few editorial remarks, and had no part at all in putting LOTR together.

Quote:

This probably wasn't in the original books, but I still liked this quote from the movie:

Quote:
Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

It is in the books (more or less), but it happens when Frodo first learns what the ring is instead of in Moria.

Colorado-Valley · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2004 12:00 am **Posts:** 739

I built a Frank-Lloyd-Wright -style Rivendell house, completely with Cherokee-red floor heated with off-peak wind power. Native wood and stone. Picture windows toward the West Elks.

If Tolkien had been an Western rancher, I think he would have envisioned this kind of house.

cube · **Joined:** Sat Mar 12, 2005 1:00 am **Posts:** 3935

Colorado-Valley wrote:

....

"The U.S. is bankrupt. It has spent the last of its resources propping up the wealth class and attempting to control the Middle East by brute force. Its army is trapped in Iraq, being bombed and attacked 60 times a day, and its "allies," the Shiites, are holding 300,000 -strong rallies demanding the occupiers leave. This cannot last, and everyone who looks beyond the U.S. corporate media fairy tales knows exactly what has happened.

......

Ahh yes the corporate media...that's why I get my "news" from the internet...(you get more accurate reporting!) :-D

I just love it when the die hard supporters of this stupid war go ape sh!t whenever someone starts comparing Iraq with Vietnam. But for once they're absolutely right. Iraq is not Vietnam.....at least in Vietnam the Viet Cong weren't shooting rockets at the US embassy/ "green zone" on a daily basis in Saigon. :roll:

beneficii · **Joined:** Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:00 am **Posts:** 15

Carrie wrote:

This probably wasn't in the original books, but I still liked this quote from the movie:

Quote:

Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

Not exactly like that, but I do believe it's in book. It's in the chapter titled, "The Shadow of the Past," near the beginning, when Frodo first hears about what's up with the Ring and all that. In fact, this post is making me want to read the books again. ^_^

ShawnAvery · **Posted:** Thu Apr 28, 2005 12:37 am

the book and the movie were very different in the level of detail, and the level of depth and gravity the story gave over the movie.

the books were a lot more realistic, rather than expressing amazing themes, they described ordinary ones that added up to something better.

the movies made it seem as if there were some magic reason why they made it. in the books it was simply because they tried.

Daculling · **Joined:** Tue Apr 12, 2005 12:00 am **Posts:** 1316

I've been reading alot of Dan Brown's survival books lately... guess I'm going to play gollum. :cry:

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