Bush is my guy and I still think this is funny.
http://www.windwizard.net/publicfolder/theonering.jpg
[ This Message was edited by: Bagfed on 2003-01-13 18:52 ]
LOL
Oh no, what have I spawned?!?!
Well, I suppose if it’s meant to live on then it’s meant to live on 
Chris
On 2003-01-13 17:43, Bagfed wrote:
Bush is my guy and I still think this is funny.http://www.windwizard.net/publicfolder/theonering.jpg
[ This Message was edited by: bagfed on 2003-01-13 17:46 ]
Oh! You mean, like :
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Just tryin’ to be helpful…
It is interesting to note that the taunt, Neener Neener Neener (as well as its variants, Nanny Nanny Na Na, and Nanny Nanny Boo Boo) is to the same tune as Ring Around the Rosies.
[ This Message was edited by: Walden on 2003-01-13 18:01 ]
OK, now I’m laughing! But I still like my Borimir comment from the other day, too bad I didn’t check the forums in time to read about how everyone thought I was an idiot.
Tyghress, see :
http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?topic=8891&forum=1&9
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ZUBIVKA! Help out a Hoosier and tell me how you did that. I thought I had it figured out and I couldn’t get it.
Aaron
Well this must be getting around.
My friends Mom (who is not very internet savy so we’re not sure where she saw this) said “Did you know that George Bush is a Lord of the Rings fan?”. “He’s wearing the ring from that movie”.
OK, now I’m laughing! But I still like my Borimir comment from the other day, too bad I didn’t check the forums in time to read about how everyone thought I was an idiot.
No one said that…I don’t remember you getting any replies but if your feeling left out here’s one.
As far as Tolkien is concerned he abhorred alegory and frankly comparing any of his fictional characters to anyone living probably would have turned his stomach.
On 2003-01-13 18:24, CraigMc wrote:
As far as Tolkien is concerned he abhorred alegory and frankly comparing any of his fictional characters to anyone living probably would have turned his stomach.
It’s a far cry from abhoring allegory to being sick at comparisons with the living; Tolkien used to refer to himself and many comtemporaries as hobbits and stated a few times that Tom Sandiman was modelled on a mean miller Tolkien knew as a child.
And anyway: It’s NOT FUNNY. 
Tolkien could say whatever he wanted but he wrote some of this in an army tent and you can’t deny the parallels. A great alliance to fight a war to end all wars that didn’t. A second great alliance and a second war to end all wars that could only be won with the destruction of the ring… or a mushroom cloud.
[ This Message was edited by: bagfed on 2003-01-13 18:38 ]
It’s a far cry from abhoring allegory to being sick at comparisons with the living; Tolkien used to refer to himself and many comtemporaries as hobbits and stated a few times that Tom Sandiman was modelled on a mean miller Tolkien knew as a child.
And anyway: It’s NOT FUNNY.
Than why am I laughing
Meriadoc Brandybuck?! 
Ok gotcha…
On 2003-01-13 18:37, Bagfed wrote:
Tolkien could say whatever he wanted but he wrote some of this in an army tent and you can’t deny the parallels. …
Hey, thanks, I like saying what I want, too. Of course, I am not quite clear why a middle-aged Oxford don would pitch an army tent in his middle-class backyard during the war to write LOTR, but then maybe we are getting our wars mixed up a bit.
Speaking of parallels: I remember distinctly how the Italian Communist Party was particularly fond of LOTR (the whole bit, the ring, Saruman’s technology-thing, and especially The Scouring of the Shire) and used it to prove their arguments. So, I guess, I won’t be denying any parallels, oh no, my precioussss.
(And I am NOT making this up.)
/bloomfield
[ This Message was edited by: Bloomfield on 2003-01-13 18:50 ]
Maybe it was the Hobbit he wrote in the army tent.
With my memory, you can see why I’m a carpenter.
No one said it better than the great man himself…
(an excerpt from the forward to LOTR)
“An author cannot of course remain wholly unaffected by his experience, but the ways in which a story-germ uses the soil of experience are extremely complex, and attempts to define the process are at best guesses from evidence that is inadequate and ambiguous.”
That’s good enough for me. I wish I could write like that, though…
On 2003-01-13 19:02, Bagfed wrote:
Maybe it was the Hobbit he wrote in the army tent.
With my memory, you can see why I’m a carpenter.
It’s been a while for me, too. But what I remember, he wouldn’t have started on the Hobbit until the twenties. Tolkien went to Flanders in the Great War, and it was a traumatic experience: of four close school friends, only two returned. He would already have been working on the languages, and early mythology, I think: So, the proto-Silmarillion he may well have written in army tents although I don’t remember Carpenter mentioning it (in a Tolkien biography).
Best,
I think y’all guys are misunderestimating ole Tolkien. His stories speak to Italian Communists and Godfearing Americans alike! Still, I can’t get beyond the first chapter of the Hobbit!
On 2003-01-13 20:49, Walden wrote:
I think y’all guys are misunderestimating ole Tolkien. His stories speak to Italian Communists and Godfearing Americans alike! Still, I can’t get beyond the first chapter of the Hobbit! >
It’s alright, Walden: I could never make it through Ecclesiastes. And I’m not even an Italien Communist.
On 2003-01-13 20:49, Walden wrote:
I think y’all guys are misunderestimating ole Tolkien. His stories speak to Italian Communists and Godfearing Americans alike! Still, I can’t get beyond the first chapter of the Hobbit! >
A soul-mate! I couldn’t get past it, either, until I finished the Trilogy first. The Kidlet ran off with the household set of books and I haven’t yet brought myself to spend good whistle-money on another set.
I gave my guitar-playing friend the CDs for both the Hobbit and the Trilogy for Christmas and his birthday a couple of years ago. I had to banish one of the Hobbit CDs from his listen-while-drifting-off-to-sleep list. At the point when Golem started screaming “Precious!” I’d bolt upright, thinking the cats were fighting.
M
The driest part for me was the endless discription of the baren waste that sam and froto were crossing (for ever) to get to mount doom. I almost didn’t make it either.