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| | | (...) but (...) Orcs.) Tsk tsk. Lord of the Rings? Isn't that the story of those little boys who live on the island and kill each other? I think the one was named Piggy? :O) Sorry, but you there's no comparison between the pop culture recognition of (...) (25 years ago, 13-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: A good use for Jar Jar figs. —Kevin Knoot
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| | | | | (...) think (...) broke (...) Don't forget your target audience: the under 10 set. LOTR may be cool to us, but don't hang your hopes on it being embraced by your average 6 year old or his/her parents, if the parents would even let their wee ones (...) (25 years ago, 13-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: A good use for Jar Jar figs. —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | | (...) No, that's Gilligan's Island. At least, the episode I wanted to see but they never aired. :-, LotF is such a psycho book. I was about to throw it away at the end, until the very last bit where the guy looks at the ship...then it all clicked. (...) (25 years ago, 13-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: A good use for Jar Jar figs. —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | | | | (...) lol!!! That's a good one! :) (...) Have you convinced her to try them? :) (...) Didn't he have the entire story (not to mention tons of the history) complete in his head long before he wrote them down? Lucas sure doesn't... (...) Yes, I do... (...) (25 years ago, 13-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: A good use for Jar Jar figs. —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | | | | | (...) Yah, but they're too long. :-, I've described _The Hobbit_ to her many times, and in some depth, and so I suspect that some time in her life, she'll end up reading at least that one. (...) Any good storyteller will tell you that the idea's (...) (25 years ago, 13-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: A good use for Jar Jar figs. —John Robert Blaze Kanehl
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| | | | | | | | | (...) My sister knows how much I loved these books, but how little time i had to reread them when i was constantly on the road, driving all over creation for business, so she found 2 sets of cds at amaozon.com (I believe) that are from a BBC (...) (25 years ago, 13-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: A good use for Jar Jar figs. —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) And in fact is. I have a nifty little book which is a bunch of research on Tolkien's writings. (25 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: A good use for Jar Jar figs. —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Or, if you want the semi-pejorative analysis of Tolkien ("warts and all"), you can pick up the acerbic, possibly polemical, _Inventing the Middle Ages_ by Norman Cantor; he gets into the ugliness and downright weirdness involved in creating (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: A good use for Jar Jar figs. —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | | (...) Is it not nifty? BTW, Sproat, thanks for exposing me to Sluggy. My life has never been the same. :) Steve (25 years ago, 16-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: A good use for Jar Jar figs. —Shiri Dori
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| | | | | | (...) LOL! (...) Same here. We watched the movie in pshycology class, I got very close to PEWCing... Uch. (...) Um, well, I actually *didn't* see the ending... can you email me and tell me what happened? :-) -Shiri (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: A good use for Jar Jar figs. —Craig Hamilton
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| | | | | | (...) hey, y'all ~ LOTF is one of my faves! mostly because of the connection i find in it to my all-time favourite book. the LOTF characters remind me of the lost boys in peter pan! both books explore the the angst, isolation, and frustration of (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: A good use for Jar Jar figs. —Mike Petrucelli
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| | | | Just in case you still haven't figured this out. (...) That is Lord of the Flies. Big Difference. (...) Ha Ha. Lord of the Rings is so ingrained into pop-culture you don't even know it. It basicly invented the current day idea of wizards, dragons, (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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