and Jane Austen
Burn the witch! Burn her!
Zoe: Jayne. This is something the Captain has to do for himself. Mal: No! No, it's not!
'War Stories'
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Dana - Jul 20, 2009 10:38:25 am PDT #3136 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Steph L. - Jul 20, 2009 10:40:31 am PDT #3137 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Burn the witch! Burn her!
I know, I know. It's like my Steph OS didn't get a full install.
Jessica - Jul 20, 2009 10:41:49 am PDT #3138 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
You'd think someone would have released a patch by now.
Steph L. - Jul 20, 2009 10:46:04 am PDT #3139 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Not only is there no patch, there's no tech support.
erikaj - Jul 20, 2009 10:46:39 am PDT #3140 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Oh, yeah, Hecubus. Like I'm not enough of a weirdo already without the Elf languages.
Juliebird - Jul 20, 2009 10:55:21 am PDT #3141 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I reread TFotR recently and still got quite lost in it. I first read it probably when I was 8, so I can't say that I had any preconceptions of how a story should be structured. I love it's rambling ways, and how the scenery seeps into my brain, and embrace it's non-hurry to get where it's going. I think it's because of these books that my first career was originally going to be a gypsy trekking around the world with my pony and wagon.
Fred Pete - Jul 20, 2009 11:01:47 am PDT #3142 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
One of the few people I knew in college who was a bigger Tolkien fan than I was pointed out that there's a recurring pattern in the trilogy. The characters travel, then they face a monster or some other threat, then they stop to eat.
Scrappy - Jul 20, 2009 11:06:19 am PDT #3143 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Also in Book 7, Harry has to deal with finding out the Dumbledore may not have been right or honest and heightening his obedience and trust here makes that dilemma stronger when it comes.
"I didn't step in because I couldn't" is less of an internal battle than "I didn't step in and I could have."
beekaytee - Jul 20, 2009 11:51:33 am PDT #3144 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
I found that LotR works much better aloud (yay, rah, audiobooks!)
Oh my, yes. I cannot recommend highly enough the Recorded Books unabridged versions read by Rob Inglis. Magical! And much better than the various 'full cast' recordings.
beekaytee - Jul 20, 2009 11:57:15 am PDT #3145 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
While I agree with your first point Scrappy, I think it dilutes the gravity of the situation by shifting the moral dilemma from Dumbledore...and his existential turmoil as described during the coming train station scene (if that even gets included, which I'm doubting at this point)...to Harry. Which gives it much less punch in my imagination.
In truth, I shouldn't be arguing any of these points. The movies are successful, which means I must be missing something in the continuity that is unique to them because I'm so steeped in the books.
I really am happy with the LOTR books and the movies as completely exclusive entities, but I haven't reached contentment with the separation in the Potterverse.