Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
I think we're unconsciously trying to reach 30,000 today...
I think that things are just starting to pick up. I suspect we will be seeing more and more new people and returning friends who are starting to get excited showing up and wanting to talk. I would not be surpised if the Hole hit a fever pitch by the end of November or so.
Golly, will my keyboard be able to stand it? Lucky I just bought a new one!
"I would say of course they had a choice. We all do."
Yeah, I think you've summed up the whole point of the thing in two quick sentences.
"I believe even then, (influenced by the Ring) Frodo intended to claim the Ring and attempt (vainly and foolishly) to challenge the Eye."
I don't think so, probably he was thinking it, but still intended too destroy it, though at the end he could not, as none of them could have.
Well, since Corin's not here... I've always seen Pilate and Judas as weak men... and in Judas' case he was destroyed by his weakness. That's why I feel sorry for them.
Yes. Exactly. The thought was starting to grow in his mind and this to me has always been like a slip-up. That "Not yet".
I would agree with you Sam. In fact, I think one could even define morality as the choice between good and evil.
I guess I can't argue that it's evidence of its growing power. But I believe Tolkien is in print as saying that none of them could have resisted its power in the end.
That's where some of Frodo's heroism comes in maybe, understanding the rings deadly power and threat, he still determined to walk into Mordor in pursuit of its destruction, if he could, in that way help the free folk of Middle Earth.
There suddenly upon a ridge appeared a rider, clad in white, shining in the rising sun. Over the low hills the horns were sounding. Behind him, hastening down the long slopes, were a thousand men on foot; their swords were in their hands.
Can you imagine how that's going to look!! We'll see Gandalf on that rearing horse you know, in the trailer, then behind him a thousand men come over the ridge! Oh man oh man, fetch my medicine!
Wow!! You folks have busy busy little Hobbits, Elves and Dwarves this afternoon. I've only been gone a couple of hours and I had to go back 4 pages to catch up, I'm still only in the 250s!
2JM, I had to take my 12 1/2 yr old son to the dentist today to have 2 teeth pulled in advance of braces. It took me 1/2 hour just to get him out of the house into the car. I confess I was rather ugly to the young man! He was SO SCARED! I was trying to convince him that it wasn't going to be that bad, that he'd have Novocaine and probably wouldn't feel that much. I literally had to walk him down the stairs and out into the garage. Well, we got to the dentist 1/2 hour late, so we had to wait for the person they let go in front of us. The upshot is that now he realizes that he was silly to be so afraid, and he's running around the house laughing because he can't feel his upper lip!
I'll keep your father in law and your family in our prayers.
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