Ath, I just stared reading The Constant Gardener and I like it very much.Athrabeth wrote:I already have my books waiting to be packed for our Mexican holiday next month: Le Carre's Constant Gardener,
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- Sun Dec 04, 2005 5:52 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Browsing the library shelves
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- Sun Dec 04, 2005 5:34 pm
- Forum: Arda Unmarred
- Topic: Nature Pics
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- Sun Dec 04, 2005 5:16 pm
- Forum: Welcome to Our Messageboard! COME HERE FIRST
- Topic: GREETINGS to our Newest Members!
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- Sun Dec 04, 2005 4:20 pm
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: Making Music With Other People
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- Sun Dec 04, 2005 3:58 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The Rapture
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- Sun Dec 04, 2005 3:56 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: Quan Yin, Boddhisattva of Compassion
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- Sun Dec 04, 2005 6:45 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: The Moral Universe of Middle-earth
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My dear vison, no one can tell you that your way of appreciating something is the wrong way. Not me, not yourself, and not Tolkien. I had probably read the LOTR 25 times before I ever read the Silmarillion (let alone the UT and the HoME). It had a profound effect on my spirit when Fëanor was nothing...
- Sun Dec 04, 2005 3:32 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: The Moral Universe of Middle-earth
- Replies: 87
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That's interesting, vison, because I have come to think that a big part of Tolkien's great brilliance was his ability to show the subtleties of evil. But you have to look at characters like Melkor, Fëanor, Thingol, Denethor, Boromir, Saruman, Túrin and Húrin to see that, not the orcs. His ability to...
- Sun Dec 04, 2005 3:01 am
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: The Lord of the Rings Musical
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- Sat Dec 03, 2005 9:13 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: An Honourable Soldier
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Whatever else one may say, Mr. Rumsfeld has been entertaining. I love this 'poem' taken from one of his briefings: The Unknown As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some things We do not know. But...
- Sat Dec 03, 2005 8:53 pm
- Forum: Arda Unmarred
- Topic: Nature Pics
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- Sat Dec 03, 2005 8:41 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: An Honourable Soldier
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An Honourable Soldier
I somehow found this recent exchange between Defense Secretary Rumfeld and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff heartening. Its good to see that the head of the U.S. military is willing to stand up for what is right, even in the face of disagreement from his civilian boss. WASHINGTON -- The nat...
- Sat Dec 03, 2005 8:24 pm
- Forum: The Cottage of Lost Play
- Topic: Christmas (or Holiday Season) Music
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- Views: 24177
- Sat Dec 03, 2005 7:55 pm
- Forum: Arda Unmarred
- Topic: Nature Pics
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- Sat Dec 03, 2005 6:13 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
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- Sat Dec 03, 2005 5:52 pm
- Forum: Arda Unmarred
- Topic: Nature Pics
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- Sat Dec 03, 2005 5:46 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Replies: 66
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- Sat Dec 03, 2005 5:39 pm
- Forum: Welcome to Our Messageboard! COME HERE FIRST
- Topic: GREETINGS to our Newest Members!
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- Sat Dec 03, 2005 5:28 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Replies: 66
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I had a long post eaten last night. :x I'm going to try to recapture a piece of it. The Shibboleth is a symbol of language as a divider. But language is how we communicate with each other, one way we bridge the gap. I really think there is something ... dismaying ... about language also being someth...
- Sat Dec 03, 2005 4:06 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Tolkien and Irish Mythology - A Study
- Replies: 31
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