The Hall of Fire

As a side note…I’m an artist, and I was recently involved in a project in which I collaborated for a bit with the CGI company that created Mr. and Mrs. Beaver. They were pretty proud of their work on those two, and rightly so. *swoons for Whistler* :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :D

I'd love to know what cgi was considered poor? For starters: some of the scenes by the Great River, just after the kids nearly drown ... terrible bluescreening. ;) And the Fox, delightful a character as he was, could have done with a lot more work done on him. And there were a few other bits and pi...

Someone on b77 (I think it was Di) said it was like every child's grandest fantasy, and I totally agree. Yup, that was me. I think I said it was like Andrew Adamson had put my childhood fantasies right up there on the screen. :) Jewel, I didn't think of the Borg Queen at the time but I can see what...

What beautiful writing, Vision. :hug: I love the elegant, poetic simplicity of your prose. :) About a month or so ago, I was on a train travelling from London Paddington to Oxford. (I work for a Christian charity in London and my department was having a Team Day at a retreat centre near Oxford.) It ...

God likes parties. :) :) :) :) That's my profound theological statement of the day. :D I have no problem with celebrating the Incarnation of our Saviour at the time of the midwinter festival, and I have no problem whatsoever with other people of other beliefs celebrating the same festival in whichev...

Lali!

I thought everybody knew about the HoF.

Oh well.

Glad you found your way over here!!

Pearly Di

MaidenOfTheShieldarm wrote:I agree that she was heartbroken, but I never saw that as her primary motivation. I thought it was the final straw, the thing that made her unable to bear anything else.

Ah. Yes, I see, and I agree.

Well, I think if Faramir expected a subservient wife, he had probably learned just exactly how mistaken he was. I also think the Faramir would have detested having a subservient wife. No wonder the Divine Faz is my favourite man in the whole of Tolkien. :love: Maiden of the Shieldarm: I know this i...

Yay! She found us!

I emailed her about this place.



Welcome, WW!

Doesn't "Shadowlands" deal mainly with Lewis's marriage? If I recall correctly, Tolkien did not approve of the marriage, which began as a legal fiction, a means of letting Lewis's American wife remain in England longer, and only later became a true marriage. (I also seem to remember that ...

Merciful heavens.

That makes PJ and his daft XenArwen ideas sound positively puristy!!!!!!

Aaaaaaaaaaarrrggggghhhhhh.

Oh, thank the Lord that never came to pass!

Ack!!!!!!!!!! Ackackackackack!

Hope you and the kids enjoy it, Alatar! :) Oh, and PJ is still the Lord of the Battle Scenes. No question. 8) Another question I forgot yesterday: the story in The Lion, the Witch and the Warderobe seems pretty complete. What can possibly be the subject of the other books, then, I wonder? And - they...

:hug: back to Wampus! I definitely felt that Christian elements were downplayed, and Aslan came across as quite a bit less than a Christ figure...it wasn't his return that brought the end of endless winter, it was the arrival of the children. ttbk Do you know, TTBK, I didn't pick up on that at all. ...

I'm just back from seeing the film and I am absolutely over the moon. What a gorgeous, GORGEOUS movie. I ADORED it. :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: Vision, I honestly think you have to read Narnia as a child to be able to fall under the enchantment. They are far more childlike than LOTR, a...

Alatar , heh. :D I'll bet that's not so far off the truth either! :rofl: V-man , thanks so much for posting those GREAT quotes. :hug: :love: Marueen Thum and I obviously sing from the same hymn sheet. Totally. This is how I have always seen Éowyn. She, and Galadriel, are definitely my two favourite...

Éowyn and Eve fall to temptation. Eve eats fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, while Éowyn desires knowledge of battle and life beyond the confines of the lot that has been assigned to her. Eve, by falling to temptation, was cast out of the Garden and gave us the lot in life that we now have. Éowyn, ...

*covets Sidonzo's new title* *covets Sidonzo's avatar* =:) Welcome, Sid, aka Mrs. Frodo Baggins. :hug: Hi, Leoba! :D :hug: And all other new people. :) There's little of intellectual use in this old brain these days and even less time to convert it into prose worth sharing. I don't believe a word of...

In the Chapel This flame is moulded to a supple sheen of purest gold. Moths flutter like white hands against the glass, the cross is stark. Outside the evening swells in wind that gathers clouds from dark. I watch the light and then recall the love I felt, the swirling smokes of passion which arose...

samaranth is here!



Good-oh.

Pearly Di

BTW, have you read The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy? It is set in modern Kerala, India. It was actually physically and emotionally painful for me to read certain parts of it, but she is a glorious writer with a stunning mastery of the English language. And thankfully, there are achingly bea...