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terminus
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Feb 24 2007, 7:23am
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Im Terminus and I have been lurking here since "The great Balrog Wings Flamewar of 97" just decided to join in the fun!
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Sherry
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Feb 24 2007, 11:14am
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I'm Gene Hunt. Your DCI. And it's 1973. Nearly dinner time. And I'm 'aving hoops.
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Well, obviously, I'm not a Gene :p
I'm Sherry. Formerly Arwenelf. Nice to meet you. Good you delurked after all these years.
You might have missed the official introduction thread, but chances are you'll find that a better place to inroduce yourself :)
Go here for it - http://newboards.theonering.net/.../gforum.cgi?post=361
''Pooh!'' he whispered.
''Yes, Piglet?''
''Nothing,'' said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. ''I just wanted to be sure of you.''
What I am listening to
New boards = new nick. Registered User formerly known as Arwenelf
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Greenwood Hobbit
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Feb 24 2007, 2:35pm
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Glad you de-lurked. Enjoy the new boards!
(And I am now kicking myself I didn't watch the first series of 'Life on Mars'...)
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deej
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Feb 24 2007, 2:48pm
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Hope you enjoy your stay here on the boards!
Sincerely, deej - The Artist Formerly Known as djdeathskiss
Atlanta Woot! Moot 2007 - Join us Labor Day weekend; go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/atlanta_woot_moot/
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Ugly Troll
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Feb 24 2007, 3:03pm
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Oh! You mean the wing-shaped shadows....
Teddy Roosevelt April 10, 1899, or Gandalf?
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.... It is hard to fail, but is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.
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entmaiden
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Feb 24 2007, 3:11pm
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Glad you de-lurked. I see Sherry gave you the map to the Intro thread. Look forward to your participation!
Each cloak was fastened about the neck with a brooch like a green leaf veined with silver.
`Are these magic cloaks?' asked Pippin, looking at them with wonder.
`I do not know what you mean by that,' answered the leader of the Elves.
NARF since 1974.
Balin Bows
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entmaiden
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Feb 24 2007, 3:14pm
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"....its wings were spread from wall to wall".
Each cloak was fastened about the neck with a brooch like a green leaf veined with silver.
`Are these magic cloaks?' asked Pippin, looking at them with wonder.
`I do not know what you mean by that,' answered the leader of the Elves.
NARF since 1974.
Balin Bows
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dernwyn
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Feb 24 2007, 3:30pm
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And welcome! This is a great time to de-lurk!
But I have the feeling that you've just started up another "Balrog Wings" war...
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Still 'round the corner there may wait
A new road, or a secret gate...
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Feb 24 2007, 5:01pm
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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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Chance Meeting at Rivendell: a Tolkien Fanfic
and some other stuff I wrote...
leleni at hotmail dot com
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NottaSackville
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Feb 24 2007, 7:10pm
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Your argument only holds if you also believe express trains existed in Middle Earth because they are used to describe something in the Hobbit. Otherwise, we must grant the narrator the use of the metaphorical in descriptions.
Oh, and Hi terminus!
Notta
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Altaira
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Feb 24 2007, 7:30pm
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Welcome to the boards, terminus!
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Glad you decided to de-lurk and join us 'in person' so to speak. 
Very nice to have you here.
Koru: Maori symbol representing a fern frond as it opens. The koru reaches towards the light, striving for perfection, encouraging new, positive beginnings.
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FingonOfPittsburgh
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Feb 24 2007, 9:17pm
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Im Terminus and I have been lurking here since "The great Balrog Wings Flamewar of 97" just decided to join in the fun!
1997, eh? 
Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament... There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves on earth, and more than that: Death: by the divine paradox, that which ends life, and demands the surrender of all, and yet by the taste (or foretaste) of which alone can what you seek in your earthly relationships (love, faithfulness, joy) be maintained, or take on that complexion of reality, of eternal endurance, which every man's heart desires.
--J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter #43, to his son Michael
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Timbo_mbadil
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Feb 24 2007, 11:11pm
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if only you wingers would finally accept that you've been wrong all these years. The simile comes first in the text.
Otherness represents that which bourgeois ideology cannot recognize or accept but must deal with (…)
Robin Wood 2003, p. 49. "Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan – and beyond". Columbia University Press, New York, Chichester, West Sussex.
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entmaiden
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Feb 25 2007, 12:48am
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the direct wings reference comes last - Tolkien changed his mind.
Each cloak was fastened about the neck with a brooch like a green leaf veined with silver.
`Are these magic cloaks?' asked Pippin, looking at them with wonder.
`I do not know what you mean by that,' answered the leader of the Elves.
NARF since 1974.
Balin Bows
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diedye
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Feb 25 2007, 2:32am
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Sorry to hear that.
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grammaboodawg
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Feb 25 2007, 3:26am
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Hey! If a buffalo can have wings, why not a Balrog? ;) Welcome!!!
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Trust him... The Hobbit is coming!
"Barney Snow was here." ~Hug like a hobbit!~ "In my heaven..."
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Reptile
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Feb 25 2007, 4:47am
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Your eyes will get used to the light
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If you come out from under your rock often enough. I'm a lurker too, but the new boards seem more inviting to me. Stick around.
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Timbo_mbadil
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Feb 25 2007, 7:52am
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I really think would should start a new Balrog thread on movie
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since you haven't learned nothing in the meantime ;)
Otherness represents that which bourgeois ideology cannot recognize or accept but must deal with (…)
Robin Wood 2003, p. 49. "Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan – and beyond". Columbia University Press, New York, Chichester, West Sussex.
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entmaiden
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Feb 25 2007, 4:09pm
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The movies support my position.
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We haven't had a good Balrog debate in too long.
Each cloak was fastened about the neck with a brooch like a green leaf veined with silver.
`Are these magic cloaks?' asked Pippin, looking at them with wonder.
`I do not know what you mean by that,' answered the leader of the Elves.
NARF since 1974.
Balin Bows
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Timbo_mbadil
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Feb 25 2007, 8:44pm
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a fictional work of one certain New Zealander, and in no way significant as to the reality of Balrog wings.
Do you really think you can take a new dabate? :)
Cheers
t
Otherness represents that which bourgeois ideology cannot recognize or accept but must deal with (…)
Robin Wood 2003, p. 49. "Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan – and beyond". Columbia University Press, New York, Chichester, West Sussex.
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entmaiden
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Feb 25 2007, 9:47pm
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I was responding to your suggestion
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that we take the debate to Movie Discussion (maybe it wasn't you - still getting used to Threaded mode). Note that your words are "the reality of Balrog wings." So you accept them as real. Wings.
Each cloak was fastened about the neck with a brooch like a green leaf veined with silver.
`Are these magic cloaks?' asked Pippin, looking at them with wonder.
`I do not know what you mean by that,' answered the leader of the Elves.
NARF since 1974.
Balin Bows
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Timbo_mbadil
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Feb 25 2007, 10:00pm
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cover up this embarrasing slip of the keyboard with OH LOOK! Is that a bird?!
*Runs away hiding*.
Indeed I did suggest we move this discussion to Movie. That's quite a kick-off :)
But before we do so: Any rules? (Such as 'arguments from Annals of Arda are void'?) I'd say no…
Since it's 11pm over here, I'll now have to get a good night's sleep in order to so totally stir-fry you wingers on Movie starting next week (if your week starts on a Monday, that is, if it does on a Sunday, it's this week, of course)…
Cheers
t
Otherness represents that which bourgeois ideology cannot recognize or accept but must deal with (…)
Robin Wood 2003, p. 49. "Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan – and beyond". Columbia University Press, New York, Chichester, West Sussex.
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