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Post 261

NPY

True. I heard of one guy who taught himself Elvish using some stuff in the book. Not sure how true that is though.


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Post 262

Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs

That's quite possible. How do you think they got all that Elvish in the films? They didn't pull it out of their bums.


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Post 263

NPY

True. Though I can understand learning it for the film. But just for real life's a bit sad.


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Post 264

Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs

Why? You have people studying the bilbe, so why not study the works of Tolkien? They're more interesting by far!


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Post 265

NPY

Depends what you find interesting.

And I suppose why you're studying it would have a lot to do with it as well.


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Post 266

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Personally, I'd prefer Tolkien.


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Post 267

NPY

OK. he's good. I just found Lord of the Rings really hard to read. Too much stuff seemed to have no bearing on the story.


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Post 268

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Yeah, you really ought to read the Silmarillion first, a lot of the things make sense then.


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Post 269

NPY

The Silmarillion??


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Post 270

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It's the mythology of Middle Earth. LotR is set at the end of the 3rd 'age'. The 1st age is when a lot of stuff happened that has great influence on the events of the 3rd age.


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Post 271

NPY

OK. Maybe Tolkien had a bit too much time on his hands.

It's scary the amount of detail he put into LOTR. I heard it took him years to write it all.


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Post 272

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I heard it took his son years to figure out all the notes and bits of paper relating to it, too.


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Post 273

NPY

Wouldn't suprise me.

Did you know that Tolkien was a great friend of C.S. Lewis, who wrote Narnia?


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Post 274

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smiley - ermI've read all his books on Middle-Earth. Is that the sort of person who 'doesn't' watch every liitle thing on the SEE discs?


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Post 275

NPY

I don't know.


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