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Tolkien was a genius

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LastNightISavedAnAngel
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sorry bout another post on Lord of The Rings, but i jsut had to say taht this guy was a genius. he had probably one of the greatest imaginations ever, and was an amazing linguist. he actually created some new languages, complete languages. and now his books have been created into, at least in my opinion, some of the greatest movies of all time.
yah, people can start bitching now

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Oct 3 2003 7:26AM
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Del-Gato
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I'll agree witchyou on that. I read those books like 10 years ago or some shit. Good stuff.

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Oct 3 2003 7:28AM
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jfk
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he must have been on drugs. how else can you explain that someone invents a new language and shit ?
Oct 3 2003 6:05PM
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Krongos
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i think we all realize that he kicks ass, he is the greatest writer that ever lived
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Oct 3 2003 6:13PM
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drastic_
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im reading the third one right now




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Oct 3 2003 6:15PM
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huckster989
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I'm reading them on a yearly basis now and yes tolkien is the man. he has an amazing way of telling the stry that gives it the feeling of an epic tale, not just the scale of stuff but the language he uses. Not many authors can get me hooked in but tolkien can like no other
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Oct 3 2003 8:10PM
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Swirly999
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krongos since you seem to know alot about the series do you have an answer to this question. Is there any truth that when tolkien was writing the series it was losly based on the nazi's trying to take over the world or soemthing like that?


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Oct 3 2003 9:41PM
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petek
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he didnt really invent a language, its based on scandanavian. Actually, it would be a really cool thing to look at norse mythology and the lord of the rings side by side, to see similarities.


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Oct 3 2003 10:12PM
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shibby
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im reading a biography of him in french class. tough life he live.


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Oct 3 2003 10:28PM
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rasser
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Petek, the elvish language is from scandinavians. All others are from his mind.

ALL the history, ALL the language. My God... he's the greatest.
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Oct 3 2003 10:55PM
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ThisAngelicRage
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He was a professor of old english. My mom became a linguist because of him. But she sucks. I love that man though. He was a genius.






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Oct 3 2003 11:05PM
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the-east-isnt-that-bad
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That guy is definetely an awesome writer but (sorry guys and gals) he doesn't make it into my top five....

maybe like #8 or maybe #7

But he was like mad crazy with his imagination to create all that shit and stuff...


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Oct 3 2003 11:59PM
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Krongos
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a lot of people did think that, and you could corallate a lot of world war II to the books, but actually, its just a cooincidence, in the introduction of the book, he explains how he hate allegory and he hates it when people view his work as such.
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'...all fled before his face. All save one. There waiting, silent and still in the space before the gate, sat Gandalf upon Shadowfax.'

How many snowboarders does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
10, 1 to do it, and 9 to say 'I can do that.'

'Dude, we're sick. He's pretty sick, but his muscles aren't as big as mine, so you know.'-CR Johnson
Oct 4 2003 12:09AM
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jo-skis
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yeh his work is awsome....I love the movies, possibly the best trilogy of all time

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Oct 4 2003 12:56AM
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petek
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As storytelling goes, its gonna be him, coppola and mario puzo(or somethin like that)
but novels are usually a lot more, the ones that make me think, and inform me, thats where george orwell takes the cake.


'We can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind, cause they dont dance, and if they dont dance they aint no friends of mine.'
Me- come here doggy
Karl-I dont think he understands english man
Alex-yeah, it is a GERMAN shepherd
Oct 4 2003 1:12AM
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