When it comes to topics that I have no particular strong feeling about or extensive experience to convey, Tolkien is more than a notch or two above asshooks for a conversation to follow and nod silently from time to time. Carry on.
There are cockroaches in Mexico big enough to own property.
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Laura - Jul 13, 2009 9:21:05 am PDT #16437 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
StuntHusband - Jul 13, 2009 9:21:56 am PDT #16438 of 30000
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
I do not consider it geekfail to NOT be as obsessive about LotR as I am. (I used to; I grew up, and got friends.)
I'm of the opinion that the written Tolkien is losing cultural context to remain *interesting* to younger readers. His style is obscure, his word-choices are bizarre, and the themes are very Victorian (as is the fact that FOUR WOMEN influence the plot, and only about a dozen women of any species are even *named*) - but I still love it. If my geekery turns from "being the repository of factoids" into "keeper of the museum", I'll be slightly sad, but just as happy. :)
StuntHusband - Jul 13, 2009 9:22:18 am PDT #16439 of 30000
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
The Peter Jackson movies, not the porno versions.
BWAH.
tommyrot - Jul 13, 2009 9:23:03 am PDT #16440 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Tolkien is more than a notch or two above asshooks for a conversation to follow and nod silently from time to time. Carry on.
Huh. "Tolkin" and "asshooks" in the same sentence....
Let's see, what if... instead of a ring....
omnis_audis - Jul 13, 2009 9:23:21 am PDT #16441 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
I am not clicking on Omnis' linkIt was an IMDB link, perfectly work safe.
Did you never see the Jack-Black-as-Frodo parody?!?That was high-lar-ious! Loved it. Nope, hadn't seen that before.
StuntHusband - Jul 13, 2009 9:32:50 am PDT #16442 of 30000
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
Did you never see the Jack-Black-as-Frodo parody?!?
I did. I just blanked it out.
BLANKED OUT
Ginger - Jul 13, 2009 9:35:17 am PDT #16443 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Just posted on the local Freecycle list:
Xena Halloween Costume size Large fits approximately a size 14. Its a polyester dress type thing made to look like her metal suit of "armor." Cute.
I'm of the opinion that the written Tolkien is losing cultural context to remain *interesting* to younger readers.
I found Tolkien much harder to take as I got older.
Gudanov - Jul 13, 2009 9:42:32 am PDT #16444 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
FOUR WOMEN influence the plot
I'm probably just forgetting someone but I can only come up with three and Arwen barely counts in the books.
Aims - Jul 13, 2009 9:46:39 am PDT #16445 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Arwen, Eowyn, Galadriel, Legolas.
Four.
*w*
Jessica - Jul 13, 2009 9:47:18 am PDT #16446 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Galadriel, Arwen, Eowyn, and...Farmer whatsisname's wife with the mushrooms? Goldberry?