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Grace-Like-Rain

Grace-Like-Rain

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Two chapters left in The Fellowship of the Ring. Here are some beautiful quotes...

Gimli on leaving Lothlorien and Galadriel: Tell me Legolas, why did I come on this quest? Little did I know where the chief peril lay! Truly Elrond spoke, saying that we could not foresee what we might meet upon our road. Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had I known the danger of light and joy.


Haldir (Lothlorien guard): The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
 
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Pipp said:
You type very well for someone who can't read. :p
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That's because he types with his beard. Older CC members all know, he has a highly-intelligent, well-read (wise) man living in his beard who types all of his posts for him.
 
Grace-Like-Rain

Grace-Like-Rain

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wisebeardman said:
better believe it, ive lived it all my life..
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If finding a wife were a career, you would have only been employed about 13 years. You can't retire for a very long time, mister. Clock in and get back to work!
 
wisebeardman

wisebeardman

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Grace-Like-Rain said:
If finding a wife were a career, you would have only been employed about 13 years. You can't retire for a very long time, mister. Clock in and get back to work!
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i retired 15 years ago. that career was going nowhere fast.. I moved to the new career of hermit.
 
posthuman

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iirc the eagles weren't too keen on getting spotted by the eye and forthwith destroyed by the ring wraiths.

frodo, sam & golem got there because the sauron's attention was diverted by the battle of minas tirith. a flying band of eagles wouldn't have been too stealthy-like, which is what they relied on.

i was pretty miffed by the movie adaptions treatment of faromir. TWO characters in the entire saga aren't tempted by the one ring, sam & faromir, but the movie treated faromir like he was any other power-hungry human. faromir was already such a tragic character, but the movie's depiction tragically misrepresented his heart.

ignoring the marriage (*ahem*) the other big problem i had was the treatment of dwarves in general as the butt of jokes, especially the 'race' while tracking down the urukai-kidnapped hobbits. the dwarf on foot nearly outran the elf on horseback in the narrative, and it wasn't out of some comical fear of horses that he refused to ride, but pride in his dwarfhood. turning them into laughing-stocks in the film instead of the proud & noble race depicted in the books is an offense to dwarves under every mountain.

k i should probably stop lol.

can you tell i've read that a couple times?

i recommend the silmarillion if you can make it through it. it's a bit tougher, more historian-oriented reading, but interlaced with great, epic tales (and also some tom-bombadil stories) that really shed a lot of light on the how & the why in the main trilogy and it's precursor, the hobbit.
 
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The Silmarillion is an incredibly difficult and dry read but it has some interesting stories. Take it slowly, if you must read it at all. I love The Lord of the Rings movie (all 11.5 hours of it) but the book did some things better, but then so did the movies. Each had its pros and cons. Either way, LotR was better made than the first Hobbit movie.
 
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AmberGardner

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The Bible :)
 
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I´m re-reading several and this:

Experiencing God: How to Live the Full Adventure of Knowing and Doing the Will of God, by Henry T. Blackaby and Claude V. King (Jan 1998)
 
AsifinPassing

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Idk...the list seems to endlessly grow as a student/candidate (minister process for Methodism).

I should probably pick one to actually pull and read from the mountain...
 
Grace-Like-Rain

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posthuman said:
iirc the eagles weren't too keen on getting spotted by the eye and forthwith destroyed by the ring wraiths.

frodo, sam & golem got there because the sauron's attention was diverted by the battle of minas tirith. a flying band of eagles wouldn't have been too stealthy-like, which is what they relied on.

i was pretty miffed by the movie adaptions treatment of faromir. TWO characters in the entire saga aren't tempted by the one ring, sam & faromir, but the movie treated faromir like he was any other power-hungry human. faromir was already such a tragic character, but the movie's depiction tragically misrepresented his heart.

ignoring the marriage (*ahem*) the other big problem i had was the treatment of dwarves in general as the butt of jokes, especially the 'race' while tracking down the urukai-kidnapped hobbits. the dwarf on foot nearly outran the elf on horseback in the narrative, and it wasn't out of some comical fear of horses that he refused to ride, but pride in his dwarfhood. turning them into laughing-stocks in the film instead of the proud & noble race depicted in the books is an offense to dwarves under every mountain.

k i should probably stop lol.

can you tell i've read that a couple times?

i recommend the silmarillion if you can make it through it. it's a bit tougher, more historian-oriented reading, but interlaced with great, epic tales (and also some tom-bombadil stories) that really shed a lot of light on the how & the why in the main trilogy and it's precursor, the hobbit.
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I'm with you about Faramir. I'm very sad about the lack of attention to his relationship with Eowyn. I read LoTR a long time ago so I am not as fresh in memory on the second two books yet, and hadn't noticed the dwarf slight from the movies. I love how each race is depicted in the books so uniquely. Tolkien was brilliant in how he wove them all together in middle earth with their differences and individualities. Their loves and fears and skills as a race unto themselves.

I have noticed that the movies did not depict Legolas quite as "jaunty" as he is in books. He also appears much more brave in the movies than he actually was. (Not that he wasn't brave, but of the group he seems to be the one most fearful to me.) I did think the movies were extremely well made though. They are the best movie adaptations of a book series that I have ever seen. (But poor, poor Faramir and Eowyn! At least they got that sneaky screen shot smiling at one another in The Return of the King.)
 
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KeeganGentle

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I have never read or watched a single Lord Of The Rings book or movie:eek: I pride myself on it
 
posthuman

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AmberGardner said:
The Bible :)
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just finished Isaiah today, headed for Thessalonica & Jeremiah =]

KeeganGentle said:
I have never read or watched a single Lord Of The Rings book or movie:eek: I pride myself on it
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i'm like that with pop culture :rolleyes:
happily never seen titanic, avatar, etc, wouldn't recognize lady gaga or brittany spears if you showed them to me, never seen more than 20 consecutive seconds of survivor, american idol, big bang theory, etc. whenever something is really heavily advertised, i consider it plague.


 
Fenner

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The shoemakers wife. One quote,. To know God is to.understand life.
 
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Grace-Like-Rain said:
I'm with you about Faramir. I'm very sad about the lack of attention to his relationship with Eowyn. I read LoTR a long time ago so I am not as fresh in memory on the second two books yet, and hadn't noticed the dwarf slight from the movies. I love how each race is depicted in the books so uniquely. Tolkien was brilliant in how he wove them all together in middle earth with their differences and individualities. Their loves and fears and skills as a race unto themselves.

I have noticed that the movies did not depict Legolas quite as "jaunty" as he is in books. He also appears much more brave in the movies than he actually was. (Not that he wasn't brave, but of the group he seems to be the one most fearful to me.) I did think the movies were extremely well made though. They are the best movie adaptations of a book series that I have ever seen. (But poor, poor Faramir and Eowyn! At least they got that sneaky screen shot smiling at one another in The Return of the King.)
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Grace, you haven't seen the extended editions of LotR? They include more Faramir and Eowyn. Not much but it exists.
 
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