Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
good on yuh...I gotta run...literally...manana mon...
Yes, that's who it is. The quality level of the writing is very high in these + Simmons plays with some interesting and strange concepts. I guess its SF, but also operates as fantasty on a certain level.
Anyway, I rate them high, not just on the SF scale, but as fiction in general. I read them in the last year, so my perspective is still pretty fresh.
Well, there are lots of live oaks and mahoganies in South Florida, though I guess many of those have been removed to make room for development. Maybe I should say were lots of them. You're right about hills, though - 11 feet above sea level is considered high. Even the Bahamas are hilly by comparison.
If you feel like posting any good venison recipes, I'm always looking for those, have a few myself.
I'm going to be out of town all day tomorrow, can you guys save me some deviled eggs :-)
Okay, you drive.
Those things just don't keep well. We'll make more when you get back...
Just don't give any to g'nad...(his wife asked us not to)
Hmmmm, what's a dwarf to do...
Well, Moria, a dwarf effort, was something like 40 miles from end to end...sort of the same idea...
Alas, no homecooking in the Stormhands household tonite...
Yes, but we know what happened there...
Maybe you should start on the deviled eggses.
Since Jen hasn't answered yet.....
From Encyclopedia of Arda:
Dwarvish MortalityThough they live much longer than Men (usually around 250 years), Dwarves are mortal creatures. What happens after their death, though, is a mystery. The Elves have said that the Dwarves return to the stone from which they were made, but the Dwarves have a different belief.
According to Dwarvish tradition, they are gathered by Mahal (their name for Aulë) in a part of the Halls of Mandos set aside for them. After the end of the World and the Last Battle, they say, they will aid Aulë in the rebuilding of Arda.
Scoobie-Doobie-Doo... (where's that pic of Ol' Blue Eyes?) It's probably a masochistic streak in me, but I kind of want to go and see that movie.
I can apparently sue Wendy's.
mmmmmmm, Wendy's......
And that explanation is repeated almost word-for-word from the chapter of the Silmarillion entitled "Of Aulë and Yavanna", so I guess we can take it as canon.
I want to go into space more than almost anything... to float weightless, to see the moon and stars without the interference of an atmosphere. I keep rooting for the "space tourists", hoping that by the time I get to be 60 or so the cost of taking a tour in space will have come down enough that I can afford it.
As I type this I'm watching "From the Earth to the Moon" on HBO. For anyone who wants to see science fiction become real, I highly recommend this series (and it's out on video now so you don't have to buy HBO to see it).
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