Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
You are the coolest guy I know!
Thank you!
I am going to go check it out and see if this project is within my skill.
I thought it was interesting. I had actually come up with a Judas comparison of my own...maybe comparison is too strong a word........but when Galadriel tells Frodo that someone will "betray" him....and that he (Frodo) knows who it is (Boromir, of course)........well, to me that sounded Judas-esque.
And of course, what Boromir did was necessary to, in the long run, guarantee the safety of the ring and, consequently, civilization, since it served to convince Frodo that he had to make the journey alone.
Sorry if this sounds like idiotic rambling but my goodness it's late.:)
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I feel like a brand new lurker!! When you post stuff like this, please point to an explanation of what you are talking about!!
Since 2JM is not here to plug the egroup, I will. Many have already joined our FreeRepublic Hobbit Hole egroup. It is a private place, so FReepmail me,JenB,ecurbh,Penny1 or any of the regulars for instructions on joining.It has a chat room
But we also have a lot of cool stuff there.
A common place for us to share all our mathoms we have picked up.
I still am browsing through all the photos and files folk have put there!We gather and chat there sometimes, and it is a good place to join us for the Oscars coming up, as well as other times when we just want to chit/chat without going to the trouble to put it in print!
As for what ecurbh is talking about, Ecurbh has been editing the source code for the Old Green Dragon thread(originally 700 posts total) so that we can post a summary of the first 5 chapters of discussion to a new thread tomorrow. Tomorrow we do Chapter 6!
And you have FReepmail :~D
In the last month I have driven from FL to LA, CA and back on business. Spent Sunday afternoon to Thursday 1 AM on last trip. I am afraid that I got behind here on the forum.
With the changes to FR and the new Club for us Dwarves, Hobbits, Elves, etc., it gets a little confusing if you don't have a scorecard handy!
Sorry, I just couldn't resist....
I'm around if we need to chat to settle last minute details for tomorrow...
I am now going to catch up on all the Boromir-bashing that was going on today... ;)
I always feel so sorry for Boromir...I am glad that Tolkien gave him a heroic ending, even if he did fail in resisting the ring.
There's something fitting about conservatives in a conservative forum being such die-hard Tolkien fans. I loved Tolkien some time before I became a conservative (or learned that I was one at heart), and I believe know now why I've loved him and why I became a conservative, and also, precisely why these two circumstances go together so gracefully, as they have with many others seemingly and appropriately.
Grateful as always.
Sean.
See you in a while...
Don't worry, there will not be a test.
There certainly will be a test! As you pointed out to me in post 167 above, I had gotten behind in my readings in the Hobbit Hole, and was properly chastised like a young hobbit stealing vegetables from Farmer Cotton's garden. Luis will certainly be put to the test, but as one of our brave Cuban American Freepers, he has passed tougher tests in the past, and this will be a lot more fun than the Elian Gonzalez situation!
I'm not sure I remember the instructions on joining. :)
Hullo! - It is very early here, and I am not sure I am really awake.
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