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I'm leaning towards the Sherlock.

that is precisely why I didn't watch The Village ...

Indeedy. We have only about 100 million years before the collision ...

I've often been tempted to take up smoking a pipe. Despite having given up smoking years and years ago.

Signs is the best Shymalan film I have seen. Again, the book is much better. And the book sucks. There's not much point in watching the film when the book is infinitely better. And that is just an attempt to write what is unwritable.

Which just proves the point about Zeitgeist Demand being an innane hypothesis.

Are you honestly surprised? Didn

Tolkien did not purposefully tap into the demand. He indicated so himself afterwards by estranging himself from the "popular" fantasy movement, which he labeled as the cult-like dredge that inevitably latches onto greatness. What you fail to understand, however, is that Tolkien's detailed studies in appendices had little to do with his popularity and influences on high fantasy. As the good professor himself observed, people were not so much interested in depth as they were interested in surface archetypes. Hobbits, elves, wizards, orcs, and the struggle between good and evil (often characterized as West vs. East), nature and industry, all set against a medieval "epic" time - these were Tolkien's so-called "legacies" on high fantasy. The rest wasn't popular, and therefore are no more than footnotes in history. As far as my credentials with LOTR goes, I would refrain from making impossible suppositions, metaldigital. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That depends on whether you make ludicrous statements that cloud any learned wisdom you may have. I don't know why you think that the details are not important to Tolkien's popularity. How can anyone say that: has there been a study done to explain the popularity, or is it just a bunch of speculation by certain individuals?

1. People don't die at twenty without technology. Without knowledge, maybe, but not technology: farmers don't need super-growth fertilizers, they just give a higher yield. 2. You hope that genetic manipulation wouldn't be banned. Some religio-political systems don't agree with basic medical practices: Jehovah's Witnesses, for example, don't permit blood transfusions.

Nice posture: don't give up the deportment lessons. "

Careful about the negative charisma effects ...

http://www.gamespy.com/articles/693/693211p1.html

You can time your ejaculations that well?

I'm still wondering how the President of the United States started quoting a Simpson's character ...

Johnny ****ing Depp, absolutely fantastic. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Baley: really, put some cash together and make the visit. I don't need ze drugs. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Why are you watching it again, then? Envy?

The cold one?

You don't call a species becoming more dependent on artificial technology a real, long-term ramification? Except that genetic manipulation can be prohibited by politics even when permissable by science. Maybe beyond the point of no return for said species.

Zing!

*click click click* What's happening? *click clack click*

Yeah, but not every game has trolls.

I guess the only way forward is distributed model, like that of NwN.

What if you cast a Wish spell first ...

Just so long as I'm not compared to YOU!

I remember really enjoying the movie, but the only part I really remember is the stoning scene, and the wierd spaceship part. Both gold though :D <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Fixed. The grafiti scene is an absolute classic, too. In fact the film is just a bunch of great vignettes put together around an interesting theme. Up your dosage this time.

Tolkien's tastes and biases were not so much the tastes and biases of an individual as they were of a society. If Tolkien was eccentric and exceptional, then his ideas would not have been widely embraced. Popularity, and thus legacy as a cultural icon, only comes from a writer's ability to match the sensibilities of a nation or, at the very least, the cultural elite. His success, therefore, came about for the same reason Harry Potter did - because he captured the imagination of the masses. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> So Tolkien just tapped into a zeitgeist demand? What a load of horsefeathers. I don't know too many other Professors of Anglo-Saxon, still fewer who can write children's (or adults') fiction, and even less who can be bothered to write anything for anyone else's consumption. Have you actually read The Lord of the Rings? There are hundreds of pages of appendices containing extra histories and language details. And not stupid languages like those in SW; proper linguistic analyses based on actual detailed studies of actual languages. The story was just a (at times poorly written) container / presentation device. So all this fuss over Mozart is unwarranted? Beethoven is pass