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Ah I read so many Nancy Drew books when I was that age, read them in Danish though. The Fighting Fantasy books by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone among others - they're the 'choose your own adventure' type. I've always loved them, have been immersed in one of those in large parts of my life...

*revives topic* I've memorised far more songs from LotR than I care to admit *blush* Almost all of them. As for the tunes I'll recommend 'The Tolkien Ensemble' They have 3 albums out: An Evening in Rivendell, A Night in Rivendell and At Dawn in Rivendell, and they have some very well...

I really have a hard time with thsi question, Tolkien set up each of the races so well, with such extensive background that they are all appealing to me, so I simply can't decide, though my anarchistic streak tells me to say the dwarves because they're generally an overlooked group. I do so like...

One Book, sic 'books' and many many chapters. I have yet to figure out why some authors call it Book 1 and Book 2 instead of Part 1 and Part 2, old tradition perchance? Or just because it makes the work sound like it's much bigger and extensive than it really is? Not that LotR isn't, mind you.

True, but there's not far from thinking one sounds like a bird-brain, to thinking one *is* a bird brain, and taking your statement from earlier it balances somewhere between stating that he sounds like and that he is. *shrug* lol aye, same type of mistake.

@ Zolipara - Heh, I must say I doubt it was in Jackson's tastes to change the Fellowship, he seems too much of a fan himself to do such a thing. I could be wrong though. @ MC - I'm not sure about the "at the expense of other characters" statement of yours. What characters did we lose...

I don't bloody well believe it! I thought I could expect intelligent people on this forum, and instead here we are tryign discuss one person's opinion based on the use of words in another's statement. Jesus Effing Christ! What one person or two may have said that might have been offense...

@ SFG - As MC pointed out in one of her previous posts: this is not about getting rid of General Chat. It's about not letting it have any influence on the post count.

LOL misunderestimated... that's a good one. I think I'll make a point of beginning to use it frequently. We have a history of home-made words in my family and this one is right up our alley - pity I can't post some examples, I doubt all that many of you would understand Danish word jokes...

I was prepared to accept many changes, I would even have accepted Arwen's extended part if only they'd made her an interesting character. But they didn't. A quick "See my heroic girlfriend save the day"-scene and lots and lots of kissy, huggy, stuff that didn't add anything to anyone's...

Okay, Kenny may just have found the points people object to :p but other than that, great post, MC. I have always been of the opinion that the 'off-topic' area of a forum can never have a claim to be part of the post count. Why not? Because it is *drum roll* Off-topic! It's fantastic, no...

You've got to be kidding me... part of the Fellowship? How could that thought even cross their minds? There's a reason Tolkien wrote a Fellowship of 9, and a band of 9 Ringwraiths. Sheesh. And I'm sorry to say it, but Liv Tyler as ass-kicking elf-warrior didn't work too well at the ford (where...

I completely agree - and if they don't have it at present they can at least get it and will order it while you're there.

Not really the feminists. More the fact that you don't hire an actress like Liv Tyler and give her 5 minutes screen time total. Though I did hear that Jackson had chosen to give Arwen a bigger role so women would have something to enjoy in the movie. Excuse me? Does he honestly think that...

Hmmm, I was actually moderately surprised to see a post-count on this forum. It's usually something I connect with 'a fun feature to entertain the kiddies - w00t!' I haven't bothered to check my own percentage - I have some posts in General Chat, but I'm pretty sure most of my posts are in...

Libre - so far I have yet to hear anyone claim that they had no idea that Bush was talking about nuclear weapons. That makes it imprecise pronunciation but not a semantically confusing mispronunciation. The one in my example was in fact semantically confusing because it became another existing...

If it wasn't so the first one wouldn't have been closed in the first place. That much should be obvious...

It has happened again - now for the fourth time in the month I've been coming here regularly - I click on a thread that looks interesting, and I read through it - this time all 8 pages and when I get to the point where I want to contribute with something I actually felt might be insightful and...

And yet you also say that you feel uncomfortable that Bush pronounces 'nuclear' the way he has heard it. Now, I don't know much about the American accents, but to me his speech never came across as anything but 'accented' (Hola! Imprecise use of the word accented - but I'm sure you know what I...

Trainspotting if you can bear to read the dialect it's written in.