... From: Steve Schaper To: mythsoc@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 5:16 PM Subject: Re: [mythsoc] Digest Number 785 ... Well, I'd be more...
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Steve Schaper
sschaper_iowa
Jan 1, 2002 4:54 pm
... If I ever get rich, I'll get the Folio Society edition. I covet it. That and the green leather-bound edition I saw in Hildifons Took's home south of St....
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Stolzi@...
stolzi1us
Jan 1, 2002 6:03 pm
Found a rather entertaining bio page from Denmark which says "the more folk-ish and veird songs (mainly Hobbit-, Dwarven- & Bombadil songs) are composed by...
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Trudy Shaw
tgshaw@...
Jan 1, 2002 7:24 pm
... From: Steve Schaper To: mythsoc@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 4:39 PM Subject: Re: [mythsoc] Digest Number 783 ... Since the maize was...
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David J Finnamore
daeron80
Jan 1, 2002 9:23 pm
... Maybe from a land somewhere south of Mt. Shasta and north of the Baja wastes? A land of industrial light and magic. Men led by the mighty Kings of...
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David J Finnamore
daeron80
Jan 1, 2002 9:34 pm
... Yes, but with some imagination and research it could have and should have sounded better. Actually, it did sound somewhat better in Dolby surround. I...
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Stolzi@...
stolzi1us
Jan 1, 2002 9:58 pm
In a message dated 1/1/02 1:27:55 PM Central Standard Time, ... Small potatoes, huh, Trudy? :) Which I'm cooking Yukon Golds these days - and this bag of...
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WendellWag@...
wendell_wagner
Jan 2, 2002 3:29 am
Here's a random set of lists of top ten movies for 2001 selected by various critics. You're invited to post more if you can find them. Note that _The Lord of...
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Stephen Law
dimwoo
Jan 2, 2002 12:44 pm
Trudy wrote: "Since the maize was growing within the borders of the Shire, I assume the hobbits got it from the same source as their potatoes--considering at...
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Christine Howlett
chowlett@...
Jan 2, 2002 10:48 pm
I would have to disagree that LOTR is explicit about the source of the magic at all; in fact I believe the word God (deity, etc.) is not used once, and I do...
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Trudy Shaw
tgshaw@...
Jan 3, 2002 4:03 am
... From: Christine Howlett To: mythsoc@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 4:49 PM Subject: Re: [mythsoc] Digest Number 785 ... at all; in fact...
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David J Finnamore
daeron80
Jan 3, 2002 1:44 pm
... Atlanta-based prog-rock band, long associated with the fantasy crowd there. I became aware of them when they played at Dragon Con in 1996. Their...
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dianejoy@...
Jan 3, 2002 2:30 pm
Quoting Trudy: << Again, it's a mindset many of us wouldn't see as logical, but I do think it exists. (Well, guess I should say I know it exists, because I've...
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Christine Howlett
chowlett@...
Jan 3, 2002 9:06 pm
... magic ... and I ... is ... same ... as ... hints. But the people judging the books today have easy access to Tolkien's wider cosmology which, to a large...
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Bill
lunacy2us
Jan 4, 2002 6:57 am
Should mention that David Arkenstone, a New Age musician, has a cd out, "Music Inspired By Middle Earth" that I purchased today at the Borders I work at after...
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jchristopher@...
Jan 4, 2002 4:49 pm
Anne Brode directed my attention to this obituary from _The Guardian_: Anne Ridler Poet and librettist whose early work was championed by Eliot, and who was...
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Stolzi@...
stolzi1us
Jan 4, 2002 6:59 pm
In a message dated 1/4/02 10:52:34 AM Central Standard Time, ... Stop your ears, JRRT! :)...
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David S. Bratman
fafyti
Jan 4, 2002 9:23 pm
Additional info on Anne Ridler's relationship to Williams, from Alice Hadfield's book and elsewhere: She was the niece of Sir Humphrey Milford, the publisher...
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mark_r_harris
Jan 5, 2002 3:30 pm
Hello! I'm new here, so I thought I would take the opportunity to post a couple of comments I made on another Tolkien list. Here's the first: I am not hopeful...
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Mark Harris
mark_r_harris
Jan 5, 2002 3:33 pm
There was a lovely full-page ad for LOTR in the New York Times on New Year's Day, picturing Frodo and Gandalf in Moria with this dialogue in large letters: ...
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Mark Harris
mark_r_harris
Jan 5, 2002 3:36 pm
A disappointment of Jackson's film was the elimination (at least so far) of the Gollum backstory: not just the riddling session with Bilbo, but the murder of...
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Mark Harris
mark_r_harris
Jan 5, 2002 3:38 pm
1. The only viewers who can be immediately upset by changes that Peter Jackson has made in adapting The Fellowship of the Ring are those *who have read the...
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mark_r_harris
Jan 5, 2002 3:44 pm
By the way, as a newcomer reading through the recent archives, I quite enjoyed the vigorous debate about "Hal's walking tree." Although the tome got a little...
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ERATRIANO@...
lizziewriter
Jan 5, 2002 4:01 pm
In a message dated 01/05/02 10:30:59 AM Eastern Standard Time, mark_r_harris@... writes: << What happened to Aragorn's great scene in Bree ("If I was ...
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Bill
lunacy2us
Jan 5, 2002 6:06 pm
Haven't yet seen the movie, I'm going to give Jackson some slack. Most of my friends who have read the book have now seen the movie and were very favorable....
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jchristopher@...
Jan 5, 2002 6:34 pm
... Let me further add that the Charles Williams Society (England) has available Ridler's _Notes on the Taliessin Poems of Charles Williams_. This can be...
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mark_r_harris
Jan 5, 2002 7:56 pm
... Advantage Bill on this one. I checked the official LOTR movie website, which I hadn't looked at in months, and ascertained that there are actors listed for...
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Joan Marie Verba
ftl_publicat...
Jan 5, 2002 8:03 pm
... On the Mythsoc list, members are invited to post their opinions, whether or not they are supported by the text. There are no "correctness" or "accuracy";...
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WendellWag@...
wendell_wagner
Jan 5, 2002 9:48 pm
I just noticed that the copies of _The Silmarillion_ that are being offered in a flyer from a book club has "Second Edition" on the cover. Did I miss ...
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Bill
lunacy2us
Jan 5, 2002 9:52 pm
Second book club edition, maybe? WendellWag@... wrote: I just noticed that the copies of _The Silmarillion_ that are being offered in a flyer from a book...
