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(...) Excalibur… HA! They wore their -shiny silver armor- EVERYWHERE, to dinned…to bed…on short walks to the river…to the bathroom… ;) They never changed their armor, *they lived in it!!!* Sure, it looked all shimmerin’ and fanciful, but COME 0N…not (...) (23 years ago, 26-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Hey all, I'm looking for a new bike cause my current one is falling apart. Does anyone here have advice on the best mountain bike I can get for $200-$400, or any other advice pertaining to purchasing a bike? I would like at least front suspension, (...) (23 years ago, 27-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Much as I hate to dispute Hop-Frog, I thought the shows were pretty cheesy. Of course, I watched all 3 tapes, so I may be biased... Aslan did *look* fairly decent, but didn't move very well. Steve (23 years ago, 26-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: LoTR # 1 on IMDB, Beowulf on NYTimes bestseller list
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Yes, it is the Seamus Heaney translation of Beowulf. I started reading it in the airport. In the foreword he makes clear his intentions to use old words current only among his Irish relatives, and English words clearly inherited from Irish, such as (...) (23 years ago, 25-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Well, I did not go to school for that sort of thing. It would be sufficient to have a few names or titles that come to your mind as primary sources. The National Geographic Explorer special on Middle-Earth last night visited with the world's (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) answers! (...) more dessert, please more eggnog, please fortifying said eggnog five pounds gained prepare to diet! prepare to shop! after Christmas sales visits to in-laws off to Grandma's continuing family rituals waiting for Santa finally (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I wrote: "Most of the stuff passing as a plot is little more than rehashed Norse mythology." Is it the case that you want me to compare and contrast Tolkien's work to Northern European mythology? Seems like a rather thankless task. I am also (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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This might seem like a strange area to post this message, but this was the only Off-Topic area that seemed appropriate. In any case, I have an idea and was looking for opinions as to whether or not it would be successful. When one buys memory cards (...) (23 years ago, 23-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Ah, I have almost no idea what kind of press it got -- I rented it on video some several months later on a whim and was happily surprised. It's funny how things like that can work for and against a film. I had no expectations, and therefore (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I wonder if you're referring to the recent Seamus Heaney translation, the one that features a chainmail hood in embossed silver on a black hardcover. I haven't read much of that version, but it's stirred up a little controversy among the (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) "Heathers" springs to mind, as does "Doom Generation," and even "A Clockwork Orange," to a certain point (though admittedly in a different direction. Even the awful film "Strange Days" addresses the blurring and isolation of the individual. (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: We're all Anoraks on this bus (was Sadness
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(...) Ya know, that describes most people's hobbies to most poeple that don't share them. For example, I find that an excellent descriptor of sports fans. Ugh, I can't imagine a more dreary way to spend a Sunday afternoon than watching football, (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: LoTR # 1 on IMDB, Beowulf on NYTimes bestseller list
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(...) Your remark 'rehash of Northern European mythology', could you elaborate? (...) Tolkien was Professor of Anglo-Saxon (and other languages.) Maybe I am overstating this, but I just looked in the new Beowulf that was on the NY Times bestseller (...) (23 years ago, 23-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I just think it has great style -- way more style than most films. In a way the story is almost incidental to the main agenda of presenting a series of blacker than black comments and political criticisms about the modern world, and often (...) (23 years ago, 23-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Eh? I am not sure what this means... (...) I don't know anything about Tolkien -- was he a university professor? In what way did he put Beowulf on the map? I am not sure that people have really ever forgotten their myths and folklore, although (...) (23 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I meant to ask you who and when is being rehashed. I was also going to bring up earlier that Tolkien is the guy who put Beowulf in the 20th-century curriculum. (...) Hmm... Liv Tyler (Arwen) is Elven. She is like her father Elrond, whom I hope (...) (23 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I only saw a teeny piece of it, but it looked to have been better than that. Less cheese. I remember thinking that the lion looked fairly decent. -- Hop-Frog (23 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) No, I was entertained. The movie is good , just perhaps not great. But no, nothing about the movie made me stop and think about anything save its obvious visual beauty. Most of the stuff passing as a plot is little more than rehashed Norse (...) (23 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Fellowship on Film
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(...) Aha! You seek hairy minifigs! Or midgets... (23 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Erik Olson wrote in message ... (...) Shorter, stockier, hairier, less smooth. The guys in the posters look like human teenagers with mutant feet :-). Kevin ---...--- NEW Tank Engine custom train set: (URL) Annual SYSTEM Creativity Contest: (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 22-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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