November 2012 So, November has gone and as I write this, Denmark has been decorated with a very beautiful white blanket. In another part of the world, summer...
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Richard Lyman
charles_wms_soc
Dec 3, 2012 2:02 pm
Be fair to the palaeontologists! They did not confuse "Sauron" with "-saurus". It's just that the importance of the dinosaur's Eye reminded them of the...
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
Dec 7, 2012 6:06 am
A couple of years ago I came across an article on Hipster Christianity, which, it seemed to me was pretty wide of the mark. It linked to a quiz, which...
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
Dec 17, 2012 4:14 am
Terry Cowan writes in his blog: Dr. Ralph Wood, professor of Literature and Theology at Baylor University, recently delivered two excellent presentations in...
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
Dec 30, 2012 5:13 pm
Has anyone seen the film of "The hobbit"? Any comments, reviews etc? And a merry/happy New Year to all! Incidentally, we've been having the annual butterfly...
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
Dec 31, 2012 3:57 am
... In a blog post I wrote about a Soviet view of hobbits, and included a couple of illustrations from the Russian translation, showing them with hairy legs. ...
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
Jan 1, 2013 12:01 pm
What did you read in 2012? When I look at the list of books I have read, it's a bit disappointing. I didn't read as much as I hoped to, and there's not much by...
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eldil@yahoogroups.com
Jan 1, 2013 10:24 pm
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
Jan 2, 2013 1:59 am
December 2012 Happy New Year! Don't forget the Birthday Toast on the 3rd of January! <http://tolkiensociety.org/toast/2013/> This year Tolkien would have...
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
Jan 2, 2013 3:10 am
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey A New Year, Another Look The 2D difference, and Tolkien's vs. Jackson's Bilbo Mark Sommer | 01/01/13 | Jackson's Bilbo Last...
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Isaac
isaac_private
Jan 2, 2013 12:58 pm
Gosh, that's a lot of reading. 2012 was a busy year for me and I managed to squeeze only a few books in: MacDonald, George. Phantastes MacDonald, George....
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
Jan 2, 2013 6:25 pm
... I read Lossky a long time ago, and tried to read Lilith, but never managed to finish it. I'm not sure why. I read about three quarters of the way through ...
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Carolyn Janson
caro195au
Jan 3, 2013 10:06 pm
Thanks for a thoughtful and interesting review, Steve. It makes me wish modern producers - and writers - would focus less on conflict; it certainly was not...
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
Jan 9, 2013 9:22 am
First ever press interview of Christopher Tolkien, the official executor of J.R.R. Tolkien's estate, and the interpreter of his father's unpublished works....
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
Jan 13, 2013 4:28 pm
An Anabaptist friend recently wrote on his blog asking how useful trinitarian doctrine is for a theology of religions: http://t.co/OrIRrQ4K He referred to a...
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Andrew Beussink
elimas26
Jan 14, 2013 5:30 pm
It reminds me of a passages from Chesterton's "The Everlasting Man" that Confucius and the Buddha, on beholding the God-child "would have come to complete...
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eldil@yahoogroups.com
Feb 2, 2013 3:07 pm
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Dan Drake
zzyzx98765
Feb 12, 2013 3:22 am
Rather far from the literature and a bit frivolous, this, but I just found out about an animal with a formal scientific name taken from a character in The...
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Richard Lyman
charles_wms_soc
Feb 12, 2013 1:03 pm
There was a tardigrade on television the other day. Wasn't a fossil with a large eye named after Sauron not long ago? And an imaginary creature of the future...
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Andrea Luxenburg
huwydd
Feb 12, 2013 4:06 pm
Cute! Do you know if it is actually taken from Tolkien, or directly from the Norse? What about the diminutive hominid from Indonesia or thereabouts known...
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Dan Drake
zzyzx98765
Feb 12, 2013 7:13 pm
... Nice. I missed that news. ... Also nice, and it shows the readings that more or less sober scientists pursue in off hours; but real, internationally...
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Dan Drake
zzyzx98765
Feb 12, 2013 7:37 pm
... Interesting proposition. Hadn't occurred to me. On general principles (i.e., accessibility of the name) I'd bet on Tolkien. [gloating on your behalf] Made...
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eldil@yahoogroups.com
Mar 2, 2013 9:02 am
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eldil@yahoogroups.com
Apr 1, 2013 2:59 pm
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Andrea Luxenburg
huwydd
Apr 1, 2013 7:06 pm
I am writing - will be writing - an essay on virtue and heroism in Beowulf, working from an academic definition of hero/heroism. Any definitions you can think...
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dnrlsa@...
Apr 1, 2013 8:29 pm
Try Tolkien's seminal essay “The monsters & the critics” available in pdf from a couple of places on the Web. Also the opposite of virtue is sin so see if...
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
Apr 7, 2013 12:45 am
... What is the academic definition of heroism you are working from? I may be wrong, but I think that in Christian theology there is an ambivalence about both...
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
Apr 7, 2013 12:45 am
What Christianity feels like: The Chronicles of Narnia and the power of myth By Alister McGrath http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2013/04/02/3727925.htm ...
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Steve Hayes
hayesstw
Apr 8, 2013 5:05 am
Warner Brothers have issued a counter law suit to the Tolkien Trust's in reaction to their attempt to stop The Hobbit appearing on casino slot machines. Warner...
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Andrea Luxenburg
huwydd
Apr 9, 2013 9:22 pm
What is the academic definition of heroism you are working from? ****That's just it - I need to find one to use. I may be wrong, but I think that in Christian...
