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EomundDaughter
Lorien
Jan 21 2015, 11:50pm
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Tolkien was prophetic with his dislike of
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loud, destructive machines including planes (they dropped bombs in WW2).......
we see all the violence and death today from makers of bombs, assault rifles, chemical warfare, drones....
if everyone has the right to possess all the destructive weapons....how miserable life becomes...Should have listened to Tolkien..
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Otaku-sempai
Immortal
Jan 22 2015, 1:03am
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And Tolkien saw a lot of these things appear or first be used for war during the time he served in the First World War.
"The Great Scaly One protects us from alien invaders and ourselves with his fiery atomic love. It can be a tough love - the “folly of man” and all that - but Godzilla is a fair god.
"Godzilla is totally accepting of all people and faiths. For it is written that liberal or conservative, Christian or Muslim or Jew, straight or gay, all people sound pretty much the identical as they are crushed beneath his mighty feet." - Tony Isabella, The First Church of Godzilla (Reform)
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NottaSackville
Valinor
Jan 22 2015, 12:24pm
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But I got a drone for Christmas and it is TOTALLY/i/] cool!
It could potentially be used for warfare, I suppose, but that single cotton ball it can carry probably wouldn't do too much damage. Or make much noise...
Notta
 Happiness: money matters, but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important and so are friends, while envy is toxic -- and so is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude. - The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner as summarized by Lily Fairbairn. And a bit of the Hobbit reading thrown in never hurts. - NottaSackville
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Darkstone
Immortal
Jan 22 2015, 9:02pm
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But it is the aeroplane of war that is the real villain. And nothing can really amend my grief that you, my best beloved, have any connexion with it. My sentiments are more or less those that Frodo would have had if he discovered some Hobbits learning to ride Nazgűl-birds, 'for the liberation of the Shire'.
-Letter #100 [To his son Christopher]
The news today about 'Atomic Bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work for war-purposes: calmly plotting the destruction of the world!
-Letter #102
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The audacious proposal stirred his heart. And the stirring became a song, and it mingled with the songs of Gil-galad and Celebrian, and with those of Feanor and Fingon. The song-weaving created a larger song, and then another, until suddenly it was as if a long forgotten memory woke and for one breathtaking moment the Music of the Ainur revealed itself in all glory. He opened his lips to sing and share this song. Then he realized that the others would not understand. Not even Mithrandir given his current state of mind. So he smiled and simply said "A diversion.”
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