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03-27-2007, 01:43 PM | #21 |
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THAT is freaking priceless.
I also saw something like this with World War Two as an online RPG. VERY funny.
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"...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160. |
03-27-2007, 05:41 PM | #22 |
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Isn't it great?!?!
Wayfarer did a version of Turin based on this style, IIRC.
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03-28-2007, 03:56 AM | #23 |
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Both beezer. Your version is outstanding bp.
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03-29-2007, 06:40 PM | #24 |
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Thanks, gaffer.
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"...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160. |
03-30-2007, 10:02 AM | #25 | |
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Quote:
This satire thing is just priceless. |
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