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Tolkien Book Hailed as Prophetic
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| April 27, 2007
Posted on 04/28/2007 12:06:00 AM PDT by NYer
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04/28/2007 12:06:03 AM PDT
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NYer
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posted on
04/28/2007 12:06:44 AM PDT
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NYer
("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
To: NYer
...fans of this deeply Catholic author may be surprised by its biblical tone...I'm not seeing any real fans of Tolkien being surprised by this. Maybe idiots who only saw the movies and couldn't grasp the concept of good vs. evil.
To: NYer
I read The Silmarillion a couple of years ago. How is this book different? More detailed?
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posted on
04/28/2007 12:41:49 AM PDT
by
kb2614
(Hell hath no fury than a bureaucrat scorned)
To: NYer
SPOILER WARNING
“The tale ends badly”
END OF SPOILER WARNING
I wish the authors of these articles would not spoil the book!!!!! As bad as spoiling a movie — more so, because it takes longer to read a book!!!!
Ugh. Need coffee. Need fed.
Asparagus.
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posted on
04/28/2007 12:51:04 AM PDT
by
Silly
(http://www.sarcasmoff.com)
To: Silly
“The tale ends badly”
Hillary gets elected President ?
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posted on
04/28/2007 1:20:22 AM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(Would you vote for President a guy who married his cousin? Me, neither. Accept no RINOs. Fred in '08)
To: fieldmarshaldj
“The whale ends badly”
Hillary is falls out of a yacht and is beached on the shore of the Potomac.
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posted on
04/28/2007 1:29:30 AM PDT
by
Silly
(http://www.sarcasmoff.com)
To: Silly
All our cankles are belong to us.
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posted on
04/28/2007 1:39:29 AM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(Would you vote for President a guy who married his cousin? Me, neither. Accept no RINOs. Fred in '08)
To: kb2614
I read The Silmarillion a couple of years ago. How is this book different? More detailed? Yes..
If you have read the Silmarillion, then you have read within it the story of the Lord of the Rings, the great battle, and the destruction of the One Ring..
Much less detail, but the entire story and the aftermath is all there..
Likewise, there is a brief, general description of the tale of Hurin and his family also contained within the Silmarillion..
This tale, and the one from "Unfinished Tales", and other notes and writings by Tolkien, were combined, edited, etc., to create the new, "complete" book..
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posted on
04/28/2007 2:20:39 AM PDT
by
Drammach
("If you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." -- Benjamin Franklin)
To: Silly
I wish the authors of these articles would not spoil the book!!!!! As bad as spoiling a movie — more so, because it takes longer to read a book!!!!
The story of Hurin and his son Turin is also presented in The Silmarillion - most Tolkien fans know it.
To: NYer
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posted on
04/28/2007 2:44:32 AM PDT
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LowOiL
(Paul wrote, "Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil" (Rom. 12:9))
To: AnotherUnixGeek
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posted on
04/28/2007 2:48:32 AM PDT
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AdmSmith
To: GATOR NAVY
I thought the movies displayed the concept of good vs. evil quite well.
To: NYer
Back when the filming of the LOTR had only been announced , quite a few folks in alt.fan.tolkien. and rec.arts.tolkien suggested that the story of Turin might make a better movie -possibly as a made for TV miniseries. I wonder if that will now happen?
To: NYer
It sounds like a most interesting book. I look forward to reading it.
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posted on
04/28/2007 5:51:38 AM PDT
by
Tainan
(Talk is cheap. Silence is golden. All I got is brass...lotsa brass.)
To: Verloona Ti
I wonder if that will now happen? Judging from the huge success of the LOTR trilogy, it seems Hollyweird is already eyeing this book for possible production.
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posted on
04/28/2007 6:32:10 AM PDT
by
NYer
("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
To: HairOfTheDog
First in with a Ring Ping!
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posted on
04/28/2007 6:39:58 AM PDT
by
LSAggie
To: NYer
Cool! And hopefully the Hobbit will be made, too.
To: TR Jeffersonian
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posted on
04/28/2007 7:49:22 AM PDT
by
kalee
(The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
To: fieldmarshaldj
"Tolkien's satanic figure, Morgoth, curses the family of Húrin." More precisely, it was Hillary Morgoth.
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posted on
04/28/2007 8:31:36 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
(I can't talk about liberals anymore because some of the words will get me sent to rehab.)
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