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The Most Splendidly Loony Take on
Tolkien I've Read This Year
The Most Splendidly Loony Take on
Tolkien I've Read This Year
12/30/2003 06:11 AMThe Racist Tapestry of the Lord of the Rings .. RACIST TWIT IN PARIS
.. Lloyd Hart says .. closing
fast
paris.indymedia.org/article.php3?id_article=13086
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Crooked Timber: Books I Did Not Read
This Year
Crooked Timber: Books I Did Not Read
This Year
12/17/2003 06:06 AMCrooked Timber's Books I Did Not Read This Year .. the top ten books
he hasn't read this year
crookedtimber.org/archives/001011.html
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Falklands War lesson: Ignore loony
critics
Falklands War lesson: Ignore loony
critics
09/18/2004 11:00 AMMark Steyn: With friends like the Saudis .. Margaret Thatcher's
Falklands War .. CBS defense of Rather .. armored
suit
suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn19.html
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22 Italians (funny, it only read 12 when
I first read it this morning) died in a
bomb blast in Iraq
22 Italians (funny, it only read 12 when
I first read it this morning) died in a
bomb blast in Iraq
11/13/2003 08:53 AMBombing comes despite attacks on insurgents .. lourd tribut ..
CNN
cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/11/12/sprj.irq.main/index.html
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Elf Sex, per Tolkien
Elf Sex, per Tolkien
12/16/2003 08:46 PMNice scholarly paper on Tolkein's writings describing elf-sex:
There was at least one elvish word related to a sexual act in Quenya
or Sindarin: nosta / onna, beget. The source for this is Treebeard's
farewell to Galadriel and Celeborn in "Many Partings," ROTK. This
farewell includes the Quenya phrase "O vanimar, vanimalion nostari",
translated in The End of the Third Age, in the chapter discussing
Many Partings, footnote 16, as "fair ones begetters of fair ones."
There is a related early Quenya noun, ontâro, meaning
begetter/masculine parent. The early Quenya word wegê, meaning
manhood or vigor, may be open to a variety of interpretations. There
was also a Quenya word meaning virgin, rod, as in Rodwen, "High Virgin
Noble (female)." (Maeglin, The War of the Jewels, HME)
Lin
k
(
via MeFi)
Tolkien Barbie and Ken
Tolkien Barbie and Ken
01/08/2004 07:45 PM
Talk about a misbegotten licensing deal: LotR's trademark holders have
blessed the production of Arwen and Aragorn Barbie and Ken.
Link
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Thanks, Ed!)
Mieville on Tolkien
Mieville on Tolkien
11/02/2003 09:46 PMAward-winning not-dead fantasy novelist China Mieville excoriates dead
seminal fantasy novel JRR Tolkien in a most entertaining fashion:
Tolkien is the wen on the arse of fantasy literature. His oeuvre is
massive and contagious - you can't ignore it, so don't even try. The
best you can do is consciously try to lance the boil. And there's a
lot to dislike - his cod-Wagnerian pomposity, his boys-own-adventure
glorying in war, his small-minded and reactionary love for
hierarchical status-quos, his belief in absolute morality that blurs
moral and political complexity. Tolkien's clichés - elves 'n' dwarfs
'n' magic rings - have spread like viruses. He wrote that the function
of fantasy was 'consolation', thereby making it an article of policy
that a fantasy writer should mollycoddle the reader.
LinkWhat Tolkien Officially Said About Elf
Sex
What Tolkien Officially Said About Elf
Sex
12/18/2003 06:57 AMEverything You Wanted to Know About Elf Sex, But Were Afraid to Ask ..
Tyellas
ansereg.com/what_tolkien_officially_said_abo.htm
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Tolkien Fantasy Comes to Life
Tolkien Fantasy Comes to Life
12/19/2003 11:51 AMIt's time for another trip to Middle Earth. The third installment of
the epic Lord of the Rings series drags on in parts, but the film is
worth the wait. By Danit Lidor.
Tolkien Vs. The Critics In 1954
Tolkien Vs. The Critics In 1954
07/29/2004 11:55 AMJ.R.R. Tolkien was an Information
Architect
J.R.R. Tolkien was an Information
Architect
06/04/2002 06:01 AMTolkien estate wins net ruling
Tolkien estate wins net ruling
01/16/2004 11:02 AMJRR Tolkien's estate wins a cyber-squatting case to stop the Oxford
author's name being used as a web address.
Read My Lips: Read My Lips Proudly
Presents the 89th Edition of the
Carnival of the Vanities
Read My Lips: Read My Lips Proudly
Presents the 89th Edition of the
Carnival of the Vanities
06/03/2004 06:36 AMRead My Lips: Read My Lips Proudly Presents the 89th Edition of the
Carnival of the Vanities
tig.mu.nu/archives/030809.html
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Tolkien estate claims trademark for
"shire"
Tolkien estate claims trademark for
"shire"
07/14/2004 05:06 AMThe Tolkien estate and Warners have sent out a lawyergram to the owner
of shiremail.com, arguing that the word "Shire" belongs to them. The
Register traces over 1,000 years of usage of the word "Shire" in
England, and enumerates many towns with the word "shire" in their
names across the English countryside.
n fact, we don't think it would be too provocative to suggest that JRR
Tolkien may have been inspired by over a thousand years of common
history when he first came up with the name "The Shire" as the idyllic
home country of the books' main protagonists, the hobbits.
However, the legal letter claims that "goodwill in the name has been
achieved through sales of such books". Certainly The Shire sounded
rather nice as presented in the fictional books, but we suspect the
goodwill towards the area in which people live was there before Mr
Tolkien even put pen to paper.
LinkBBC NEWS | Entertainment | How Tolkien
triumphed over the critics
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | How Tolkien
triumphed over the critics
07/29/2004 10:01 PMAnd other reviews of The Lord of the Rings when it was first published
50 years ago .. How Tolkien triumphed over the
critics
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3935561.stm
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"THE ENTIRE SILMARILLION OF J. R. R.
TOLKIEN IN ONE THOUSAND WORDS."
"THE ENTIRE SILMARILLION OF J. R. R.
TOLKIEN IN ONE THOUSAND WORDS."
04/24/2004 09:05 AMPlanet-Tolkien runs rings around Gmail
Planet-Tolkien runs rings around Gmail
05/28/2004 03:33 AMZDNet UK May 28 2004 7:56AM GMT
Tolkien saga helps Bloom's career
blossom
Tolkien saga helps Bloom's career
blossom
01/14/2003 05:30 PMThis week, he's at No. 21 on the Lycos 50 chart. (The movie is No.
3.). A Google (http://www.google.com) search for "Orlando Bloom"
reveals about 80000 hits. ...
tech.life@play | Tolkien tales live on
in adventure games for PC and console
tech.life@play | Tolkien tales live on
in adventure games for PC and console
12/18/2003 04:36 AMPhiladelphia Inquirer Dec 18 2003 3:54AM ET
"If you read nothing else today - READ
THIS"
"If you read nothing else today - READ
THIS"
03/13/2003 03:47 PMIf you read nothing else today - READ
THIS
If you read nothing else today - READ
THIS
03/13/2003 12:46 PMgreat piece (full of the truth) .. The French Connection .. New York
Times .. him seriously .. Bill Safire
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Sony's profits slide 23 per cent for
year; expects bounce this year
Sony's profits slide 23 per cent for
year; expects bounce this year
04/27/2004 10:22 AMNational Post Apr 27 2004 2:06PM GMT
"How do the members of a string quartet
play together and tour together year in,
year out, without killing each other?"
"How do the members of a string quartet
play together and tour together year in,
year out, without killing each other?"
01/25/2004 03:03 PMForward Concepts Forecasts a Very Good
Year for 3G Cell Phone Shipments, but a
Down Year for Those of Older Te
Forward Concepts Forecasts a Very Good
Year for 3G Cell Phone Shipments, but a
Down Year for Those of Older Te
04/11/2005 10:52 AMBusiness Wire UK Apr 11 2005 2:12PM GMT
Q1 Internet sales rise 59%
year-over-year at Williams-Sonoma
Q1 Internet sales rise 59%
year-over-year at Williams-Sonoma
05/25/2004 11:41 PMInternetRetailer.com May 26 2004 4:11AM GMT
Digitally Unique reports December sales
up more than 100% year-to-year
Digitally Unique reports December sales
up more than 100% year-to-year
01/03/2005 05:55 PMInternetRetailer.com Jan 3 2005 9:36PM GMT
Web sales at J.C. Penney rise 40%
year-over-year in first half
Web sales at J.C. Penney rise 40%
year-over-year in first half
08/17/2004 05:43 PMInternetRetailer.com Aug 17 2004 9:36PM GMT
Apple U.S. market share declines year
over year
Apple U.S. market share declines year
over year
01/16/2004 11:33 AMApple captured 3.2 percent of the U.S...
Five-year-old girls are smarter than
five-year-old boys!
Five-year-old girls are smarter than
five-year-old boys!
06/26/2004 02:54 AMNewKerala.com Jun 26 2004 5:49AM GMT
1 year performance video - please watch
for one year
1 year performance video - please watch
for one year
02/07/2005 01:27 AMone year performance video .. filmpje dat 1 jaar duurt .. zulke
video’s .. ver durante um
ano
turbulence.org/Works/1year/performancevideo.php
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Chinese New Year - 2002 is Year of the
Horse
Chinese New Year - 2002 is Year of the
Horse
01/22/2004 10:20 AM¨§‡ … ˆ ˆ… †Š†Œ€Œ‡§ ¨§Œ §„ †ˆ .. Chinese New Year - 2002 is the Year
of the Horse .. Welcome to 4700 .. Monkey ..
4700
chinapage.com/newyear.html
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2004: Year of the Blog; 2005: Year of
RSS
2004: Year of the Blog; 2005: Year of
RSS
12/19/2004 03:36 PMPaddling Out
to Catch the Enterprise Wave
"From the shore, they look like tiny dots slowly making
their way out past the breakers. They're the software vendors
positioning themselves to catch the Enterprise RSS wave. My, that's a
lot of tiny dots...." [MoonWatcher]
RSS was big in 2004, but next year is going
to be something else. It's killing me that I can't say more, but I
know of two major library vendors that will make big announcements
about RSS in 2005. It's going to be a fun year!
3-Year-Old Shot by 4-Year Old Brother
3-Year-Old Shot by 4-Year Old Brother
11/18/2003 08:57 PM
Reuters via Wired News Nov 18 2003 8:29PM ET
A year ends, a year begins...
A year ends, a year begins...
01/07/2004 04:50 PM
Wow. What a long time it has been since I last posted to
plasticbag.org. And what have I done in the meantime? I've been back
to Norfolk to see my family, experienced the wonders of Christmas,
seen Return of the King,
watched ten hours of videos with my little brother, watched the snow
come down and get washed away, struggled through lots of music
television, had my first frank conversation with my little brother
about being gay, opened and given lots of gifts, battled back to
London via bus and train, gone back to work for a few days before
late-night driving off to Cornwall for New Year with a selection of
friends and friends of friends wherein was had much late-night
drinking, (indoor) swimming, fondue-ing, walks in the wet and the
dark, eating of beef and roaming around. Since I last posted I've
travelled about eight hundred miles in total, including trips to
Penzance for shopping, Newquay for boots and Bath for Sally Lunn's. I've driven
through Indian Queens, passed by Splatt and circumnavigated Pityme. I've also read a lot of The Social Life of Information (more
on how much I want to burn that particular waste of headspace later),
thought a lot about Tivo and Social
Software, played a lot of Knights of the Old Republic and both
been bought and bought for others some of the most wonderfully
entertaining porcelain cups I've ever seen. All in
all, an eventful and entertaining couple of weeks.
Next up is trying to get my head together to start a new project at
work (interesting one this - should have really positive, interesting
and coincidentally weblog-friendly effects on BBC Radio sites), trying to
assemble my thoughts for a conference at Olympia in a couple of
month's time, trying to work out whether to propose a participant session for this year's ETCon (which I'm
still hoping I'm going to attend), while apparently also trying to
score maximum points on self-created, self-destructive and highly
non-fun-for-all-the-family games like, "How quickly and effectively
can I alienate everyone I work with?", "Be an arse!" and "How fat,
weird and bearded can one man become?". What did you guys get up
to?
Read the comments
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"Read "
03/13/2003 03:47 PM
"I might read this one day"
"I might read this one day"
03/31/2005 11:54 PM
What to Read
What to Read
03/08/2004 11:07 PM
A man ages backward in the season's breakthrough literary event. Plus:
An epic of love and violence in medieval Japan, swapping your old body
for a hot young one, a sprawling social novel travels to the 1999
Seattle protests, and more.
Read all about it
Read all about it
06/07/2004 07:14 AM
National Post Jun 7 2004 12:07PM GMT
Some of them can read
Some of them can read
04/01/2005 02:22 PM
"Rats that
survive to the age of four are the wisest and the most cynical beast
s on earth. A trap means
nothing to them, no matter how skillfully set. They just kick it
around until it snaps; then they eat the bait. And they can detect
poisoned bait a yard off. I believe some of them can read." Also,
they're athletes
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