The ever commendable, praiseworthy, laudable, admirable, precious,
estimable and venerable Till wrote:
>
> At 07:49 AM 11/19/2003 -0700, St Stephen wrote:
> >At 04:47 AM 11/19/2003, The elfen Till wrote:
> >
> >>Till gets in trouble for his obvious great mirth . . .
> >
> >And I always get in tro
At 07:49 AM 11/19/2003 -0700, St Stephen wrote:
At 04:47 AM 11/19/2003, The elfen Till wrote:
Till gets in trouble for his obvious great mirth . . .
And I always get in trouble for my obvious great girth.
And Till started out in trouble with his obvious great birth
Till, who grew up being label
I did not care for Wolfe's Bonfire, and never finished reading it. I
have read and re-read _The Right Stuff_ many times. It is a moving
story about modern heroes in the developing US space program. None of
that ever-depressing big-society stuff that so baffles me.
I really like heroes.
Las
The LOTR movie was too dark for my taste.
Also the hobbits didn't look at all like they should have. And Gandalf
was totally wrong.
My own private movie was a much better and more enjoyable production.
But I often find this to be the case with "made from a book" movies.
At 04:47 AM 11/19/2003, The elfen Till wrote:
Till gets in trouble for his obvious great mirth . . .
And I always get in trouble for my obvious great girth.
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At 11:30 PM 11/18/2003 +, St Stephen wrote:
Hey, I'm Tom Bombadil, Tommy Bom-bom-ba-dil-lo!
My head is a sieve, and my brain is like Bril-lo!
I dance and I sing, and I sing and I dance!
I'm a jolly old godling in search of my pants!
You've certainly caught the essence, if not quite the "righ
At 04:11 PM 11/18/2003 -0700, Uncle Tom wrote:
The wise and venerable Till explains:
> Realizing that it was satire really helped, I stopped being
> offended by the seriousness of some of the absurdities.
>
If that stuff is satire then why am I not allowed to guffaw loudly at
all the appropriate
564 performances and received six Tony nominations, but
alas did not take home a single award.
> -Original Message-
> From: John W. Redelfs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 9:40 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [ZION] The Return of the
RB Scott wrote:
I'll stick with Tom. I'm a low brow kinda guy.
What do you know about Thomas Wolfe who wrote Look Homeward, Angel? I
almost borrowed that one before I noticed Tom Wolfe right next to it on the
shelf.
John W. Redelfs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> -Original Message-
> From: John W. Redelfs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 8:17 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [ZION] The Return of the King
> Heh, heh... I'm just kidding. I decided that you must have meant Tom
&g
> -Original Message-
> From: Stephen Beecroft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 6:52 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [ZION] The Return of the King
>
>
> -Tilly-
> > Last winter I decided to take the Beecroft challenge
RB Scott wrote:
I liked Harry Potter and have read all the books (because my children have).
I liked the movie as well. Ditto Lord of The Rings. However, as a rule,
neither are my cups of tea. My tastes and interests run more to the likes
of: Dickens, Irving, Roth, Salinger, Dickinson, Potok, Wolf
-Tilly-
> Last winter I decided to take the Beecroft challenge and see
> what really was in Pride and Prejudice
Till! I'm flattered. And glad to hear you enjoyed it, eventually at
least.
> Her style has to grow on you, I guess.
Orson Scott Card, LDS writer of fiction/science fiction/fantasy,
-Tom-
> I found the Tolkein movie that I watched (something about rings
> I think)
Just curious if there's a Tolkien movie that isn't "about rings"...
> to be a tiresome road movie where the heroes kept getting into
> impossible situations for no apparent reason and then being
> rescued in the be
The wise and venerable Till explains:
> Realizing that it was satire really helped, I stopped being
> offended by the seriousness of some of the absurdities.
>
If that stuff is satire then why am I not allowed to guffaw loudly at
all the appropriate places (virtually every line) during the mo
> -Original Message-
> From: Elmer L. Fairbank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> Yes, Tolkein has redeeming social value. I have always been
fascinated
> with his characterizations and I thought the movie version did a
> reasonable
> job of bringing them to life. Potter, on the other ha
> -Original Message-
> From: Jim Cobabe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 9:50 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [ZION] The Return of the King
>
>
>
> John W. Redelfs wrote:
> ---
> Tell me, if I were to read a book by R
> -Original Message-
> From: Elmer L. Fairbank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 9:22 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [ZION] The Return of the King
> Last winter I decided to take the Beecroft challenge and see what really
John W. Redelfs wrote:
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Tell me, if I were to read a book by Roth, which one should I try first,
something that would make me feel good about being alive?
---
I read everything by Phillip Roth when I was too young to know better.
Entertaining and sinfully engaging fiction, but many of the s
> -Original Message-
> From: John W. Redelfs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 9:11 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [ZION] The Return of the King
>
>
> RB Scott wrote:
> >I liked Harry Potter and have read all the boo
At 08:58 AM 11/18/2003 -0500, Uncle Ron wrote:
>
> Yes, Tolkein has redeeming social value. I have always been fascinated
> with his characterizations and I thought the movie version did a
> reasonable
> job of bringing them to life. Potter, on the other hand, while
> entertaining, reminds me a
At 08:56 AM 11/18/2003 -0500, Uncle Ron wrote:
John:
Relax brother. I was just fooling. My youngest is a big Potter fan...and so
we got sucked into the queue for Potter at midnight marketing scheme that
drove sales of the latest version through the roof.
If you're as old as The Deseret Rat, then
RB Scott wrote:
I liked Harry Potter and have read all the books (because my children have).
I liked the movie as well. Ditto Lord of The Rings. However, as a rule,
neither are my cups of tea. My tastes and interests run more to the likes
of: Dickens, Irving, Roth, Salinger, Dickinson, Potok, Wolf
> -Original Message-
> From: Elmer L. Fairbank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 8:30 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [ZION] The Return of the King
>
>
> At 04:18 AM 11/18/2003 -0900, BLT wrote:
> >RB Scott wrote:
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>
> RB Scott wrote:
> >Ah. The Harry Potter syndrome. Now I understand.,
>
> Now you understand and I am confused. What is this Harry Potter
> syndrome? I didn't like the Harry Potter movie that I saw. In fact,
At 04:18 AM 11/18/2003 -0900, BLT wrote:
RB Scott wrote:
Ah. The Harry Potter syndrome. Now I understand.,
Now you understand and I am confused. What is this Harry Potter
syndrome? I didn't like the Harry Potter movie that I saw. In fact, I
never went to see the next one. And I have never rea
RB Scott wrote:
Ah. The Harry Potter syndrome. Now I understand.,
Now you understand and I am confused. What is this Harry Potter
syndrome? I didn't like the Harry Potter movie that I saw. In fact, I
never went to see the next one. And I have never read one of the
books. Is it possible that
Ah. The Harry Potter syndrome. Now I understand.,
> -Original Message-
> From: John W. Redelfs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 5:23 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [ZION] The Return of the King
>
>
> RB Scott wrote:
> &g
RB Scott wrote:
Don't know what the question was about, but whatever it was: why is it
significant to some of you?
Well, in many ways similar to the science fiction genre, high fantasy has
captured the hearts of many who read Tolkein in the 1960's. Many of us
have read other authors in the same
From: "RB Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Don't know what the question was about, but whatever it was: why
is it
significant to some of you?
--
Because some of us are huge Tolkein fans.
Cousin Bill
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"Our country, right or wrong. When
right, to be kept right. When wrong,
to
Don't know what the question was about, but whatever it was: why is it
significant to some of you?
Ron
> -Original Message-
> From: Grampa Bill in Savannah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 8:12 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [ZIO
RB Scott wrote:
Is this significant?
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Grampa Bill comments:
To some of us, it is!
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Yep! Can't wait! My husband and I are already making plans with another
couple in our branch (soon to be ward!) that we're friends with...we're
going to get a sitter or two for all of the kids and then do dinner and the
movie.
Heidi the fair
> [Original Message]
> From: John W. Redelfs <[EMAIL
Is this significant?
> -Original Message-
> From: John W. Redelfs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 11:26 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [ZION] The Return of the King
>
>
> Tomorrow it is exactly one month until the opening of The Lord of the
> Rings: Th
At 07:25 PM 11/16/03 -0900, John W. Redelfs wrote:
Tomorrow it is exactly one month until the opening of The Lord of the
Rings: The Return of the King on December 17th. --JWR
Guess I ought to get around to renting and watching _The Two Towers_, then
. . .
-- Ronn! :)
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