Eambar: Off-Topic Thread

[Zurgi]

Two inches of snow and there's an uproar? Frig. We get two feet of snow overnight and by morning the plows have cleared everything away, and the schools are all like "We're staying open, because we need funding from the government and we don't get money if we're closed! Screw the fact the streets are covered in black ice and power lines have been knocked down by the inch of ice that came overnight as well!"  

[Caeleste]

I like the shirt.

Though I'd like it better if you took it off. xp Kidding! I'm not that eerie and pervy.

Unlike you.

In all seriousness, I like the shirt. I don't know if the pants match though.  

[TenshinoHikari]

It doesn't snow where I live. It rains. A lot. School got cancelled due to rain just last week 3nodding  

[Gornwen]

Ack, I woke up the other morning to hear that all the other schools have been cancled 'cos of a very lovely snow storm, but then, 'cos its a University... I still had to go to class... and freeze to death walking there...  

[Falathrim]

Alfirin IV

Though I'd like it better if you took it off.

Okay.  

[Zurgi]

Yeah...I saw that white text in her post, then went wandering off, came into the LOTR subforum, saw your av and was just like "he actually did what the white text said! DEAR ERU! IT BURNS!"

Hem.  

[curumo]

Stupid cold. Stupid snow.

Ha. I want that collar for my muley. xp  

[Imyavie]

*GASP* Falathrim resembles a male model! heart

Anywho, I'm done all my projects for now! Huzzah! Just one test next week...  

[Caeleste]

Falathrim

Okay.

Omigod. whee I wasn't expecting that.

Hmm...there's a 'LOTR books suck' topic on 4chan...

I like what this guy has to say.

Quote:

The issues with pacing and characterization come from two things. One is that, as noted, Tolkien wrote a good bit, but was more of an academic than a "writer". The other thing to realize is that it's rather awkward to compare the pacing/characterization/etc of LotR (or The Silmarillion) to standard novels--especially modern novels where the current ideal is to lean towards clipped, sparse, fast-paced writing--because Tolkien wasn't writing a "novel", he was creating a mythology for his beloved country of England in the tradition of old epics like Beowulf or the Norse Eddas.

The characters are supposed to be heroic, mythic icons. Given the way most characters in older epics and sagas are portrayed, Tolkien's characters show quite a bit of humanity and complexity. But yes, ultimately, it's a story about Good vs. Evil in an iconic as well as personal way.

Also, the setting of Middle-Earth was pretty much a character in and of itself, which is a big reason why there's so much description of places as they travel, even when it doesn't connect to the main plot.

 

[Imyavie]

I like what he has to say as well 3nodding . It is very well thought out, and I think anyone who says that 'the books take too long to read' should take a look at that.  

[Falathrim]

wink

I like that guy.  

[Caeleste]

For a while, I thought it might have been you - then I figured that no one here has ever been on 4chan.

...Why is your shirt back on? >| It's not that cold!

(=D)  

[Falathrim]

Hey, free samples only last so long.  

[Caeleste]

Oh, so now we have to pay for porn? The internet has gotten cheap.

What HAS this conversation turned into...  

[Onoj]

Yeah I too like what that guy has to say, and I don't like where our current discussion is going. I think we all know how easy it is for us to get on the weirdest topics ever for a long time. So lets cut off the porn jokes before it turns to discussions/arguements.