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Re: Gandalf costumes

We're not supposed to mention specific retailers on the forum, since the forum is sponsored by two retailers. However, if you Google "Lord of the Rings costumes" or "Gandalf costumes," I think you will come up with something. Of course that won't tell you the quality, but sometim...

Re: Pure Star Trek Discussion

I remember Valkris quite well, but that's not where I got my name. Valkrist was actually the name of one of the Lords of the Court of Ardor, an adventure module from ICE's Middle-earth role-playing system. Just liked the name for some reason. ;) I doubted it was in honor of Valkris from ST III, but...

Re: Best Star Trek Captain?

I've been thinking of some other ST poll ideas, but so far, only 9 people have voted on the captain one, which is hardly a lot of people, and if that one didn't generate much interest, I have doubts about other topics.

Re: Pure Star Trek Discussion

According to The Star Trek Encyclopedia , Spock was the first Vulcan to enlist in Star Fleet. Since the Encyclopedia is supposed to be based only on canonical sources, that's good enough for me. Beyond that, it was pretty much good enough for me that you said it, Valkrist. :) ST VI stated that Valer...

Re: Best Star Trek Captain?

It seemed that all the episodes had a message for the "sign of the times", (it being the late 1960's). I've been thinking about similarities...and differences...between the era when TOS aired and our current time. In the late 60s, we were stuck in a controversial war in Southeast Asia. No...

Re: Pure Star Trek Discussion

- T'Pol is given a Starfleet rank. This is a blatant error. Spock was the first Vulcan to ever serve in Starfleet. I suppose the only way around this one is that T'Pol's field commission is more or less honourary since she did not go through Starfleet Academy, whereas Spock did. Spock's status as f...

Re: Star Trek: Enterprise cancelled!

it has been picked up for syndication... i read that on www.startrek.com I finally tracked that down. It DOES refer to the repeats of the four existing seasons. Of course, by Christmas all 4 seasons will be out on DVD (and in my collection). But perhaps being in syndication, it will pick up viewers...

Re: Best Star Trek Captain?

I...had...to vote...for...Captain Kirk. What can I say. He is THE Captain. He's a man's man. :bowing: Picard would be my #2. I always had a hard time picturing him, with his slight build, as a Starship captain. However, I did like the way he carried himself. I presume there is a minimum number of e...

Re: Pure Star Trek Discussion

You hit upon the principal logic flaw in that movie. The best time to go back would have been when Soran was on the Enterprise D. Picard could have waylaid him then. The way I rationalize it, you can go anywhere, any time--as long as it's within reasonable proximity to the Nexus. The Nexus was not n...

Best Star Trek Captain?

Self-e xp lanatory, obviously. Feel free to discuss why you picked the one you did.

My all-time favorite is Picard. He's just such a class act. He also proved you don't need hair, either real or fake, to be a good captain.

Re: Pure Star Trek Discussion

I think Star Trek's all-time best villain was Gul Dukat. Granted, he has an advantage over villains like Khan, who only appeared twice, and the Borg Queen, who appeared a small handful of times, because he was a recurring character and they had a lot of time to develop him. But he was just so multi-...

Re: Star Trek: Enterprise cancelled!

It heartens me a bit to read everyone else's reactions. Right now I'm feeling like a friend has died, and have been moping around the house like a zombie all evening. Or like Spock without his brain! Paramount has never really treated Star Trek with the respect it deserved as an acknowledged tentpol...

Star Trek: Enterprise cancelled!

It was announced yesterday, and what's even worse, the press release sounds like the studio will cease making it also. I know that sounds like it fits in the "well, DUH!" category, that production ceases if a show is cancelled, but Rick Berman, the producer, had said during the show's rene...

Re: Pure Middle-Earth discussion.

lol... good question, I can't recall either, but I know it is somewhere. Seems to me it would most likely be in the essay on the Istari in Unfinished Tales. Bookwise, there's nothing I'd like more than to sit down and re-read everything Tolkien, from beginning to end. Unfortunately, that's not happ...

Re: Pure Middle-Earth discussion.

Valkrist wrote:It should be noted that Saruman was chosen to lead the Istari because his mind was most like that of Sauron's. What a mistake that was. :rolleyes_

Where did you read that? I don't mean to ask it in a confrontational way (I think you know me better :D ), but I don't recall it off the top of my head.

Re: Pure Middle-Earth discussion.

In one of his letters, Tolkien described the WK's status at the time of the battle at the Black Gate as having been "reduced to impotence." So the theory that his spirit still lingered seems to have validity. I would imagine he would have been summoned back to Sauron and "severely rep...

Re: Pure Middle-Earth discussion.

What's this--this thread has gone 22 hours without a post?! We can't let that happen--we must keep it going! So, is no one stunned over the suggestion that the Nazgul were no longer wearing their rings? (see Unfinished Tales discussion a few posts back). I was pretty blown away by that when I first ...

Re: Best giftset statue

Well thank you, Turgon, for pointing that out. ;) I hadn't noticed it before. I think it's more an issue that the upper part is slightly asymmetrical, rather than the whole thing being out of vertical.Perhaps this is the reason why one of my cats liked rubbing her cheek on it, before I moved it to a...

Re: Pure Middle-Earth discussion.

why wouldnt I :cheers: Though, I belive you may have the time mistaken. I belive when grima was questioned/tortuerd by the ringwraithes when they arrived after the flooding of isenguard, when the nazgul were looking for gandalf. Am I right, or do I have it mixed up? -wormtongue You are VERY mixed u...

Re: Best giftset statue

The bluish gray color of MT is supposed to emulate seeing the White City through a mile or two of atmosphere. You know how mountains in the distance always look blue? It's because the density of the atmosphere alters the color. Since MM is a physically much smaller city than MT (even tho the statues...

Re: Pure Middle-Earth discussion.

also, im not sure what they are called, the unfinished tales? by christopher tolkien, its that 4 or five book series of books that e xp lain im guessing the backround of the books and even some alterante ideas tolkien scrapted or whatnot. if anyone has these, could you tell me if they are worth get...

Re: Pure Middle-Earth discussion.

I do have to agree. The movie does show Isildur as being corrupted rather quickly. One of the little things that irk me about the movies (and yes, I realize things have to be simplified for movies, but let's not start that discussion again) is how certain characters are made so much less than they ...

Re: Pure Middle-Earth discussion.

The thought of Sauron peering over some hill or ridge at Barad-dur surrounded, alternately snickering up his sleeve at the Alliance's stupidity then fuming that he's missing his favorite TV shows for 7 years is pretty amusing. Not that I think that Valkrist was serious when he suggested that Sauron ...

Re: Chomsky on Middle Earth!?!?!

Christopher is a glorified librarian. Christopher would probably be incensed by that comment, but I think we can be reasonably certain he doesn't read this site. I doubt he looks at the Web at all. I really enjoyed reading CJRT's commentaries on dad's work. I found them insightful and very well wri...

Re: Pure Middle-Earth discussion.

That being said, if there is one action for which I do fault Sauron's superior intellect it's in him coming forth during the Last Alliance to confront Gil-galad and Elendil personally. That's one I hadn't thought about. It's another case of Tolkien e xp laining things so well that I tend not to sec...

Re: My dream...

Well, a New Zealand tour with standing sets would be great, as would a theme park, but there are a couple of huge obstacles in the way of it. First and foremost is the Tolkien estate. PJ was able to make the movie because Tolkien had sold the rights to the movie. Having a theme park or LOTR-themed d...

Re: Pure Middle-Earth discussion.

I'm also in the "Balrogs do have wings" camp, but I don't believe comparing them to dragons is a very good idea. I say this because I noticed an error in Olorin's analysis of the topic (forgive me, friend.) I was hazy on that as I wrote it, but I thought, if I'm wrong, Val will catch it. ...

Re: Pure Middle-Earth discussion.

The Balrog debate and the Sauron debate...I guess they will never be settled, let alone on our forum. But people's typing fingers sure get their exercise trying. In an interview, PJ says he was surprised to learn that there was debate over whether Balrogs had wings or not, as to him the passage in F...

Re: Pure Middle-Earth discussion.

Yes but even so after he recites it in rivendell he has some regret and what looks like exhaustion after he says it. But aside from that fact can someone e xp lain to me exactly what happens in that part of the scene in the extended edition in rivendell? I dont get it, is that sauron talking and if...

Re: Pure Middle-Earth discussion.

Gandalf won't recite the Ring Spell in its original Black Speech in Bag End, in the nonmagical, defenseless Shire. However, he has no trepidations about uttering the words in Rivendell (in both book and movie) where he feels it will have no consequences worse than offending the Elves' linquistically...

Re: Which LOTR to get?

One other thing to point out, and that's one-volume vs. three-volume editions. Lord knows the one-volume ones look cool--I've got 2 of them and will probably get that 50th anniversary edition. However, they're very hard to read because they're so heavy, especially if you like to read in bed. Also, i...

Re: LOTR's EE soundtrack?

Here's the link to the current status of the book and EE music set: http://www.moviemusic.com/mb/Forum1/HTML/013360.html BTW, Doug Adams is the author of the book, The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films . Thanks for posting that, Theoden! That's a great read--I'm really excited now, and everyone ...

Re: The One Ring Celebration 2005

Reading your description of the con brings back memories of the Star Trek cons I went to in the early 90s, including the infamous 1991 "con" in LA, where they got so far behind schedule we never even got into the auditorium for the whole-cast gathering the last day, because we had to leave...

Re: Future LOTR special edition?

It would have been nice to see Saruman vaporize rather than seeing his feet sticking up out of the water though. As detestable as anyone may have found the character, that was an ignominious way to go. That bothered me a bit, primarily because seeing his feet sticking up reminded me of something el...

Re: Future LOTR special edition?

Oh there's a big problem with Saruman's death fall. When things fall, they go straight down unless there is some forward momentum, which again will stop eventually depending on how much forward momentum the falling object has. Saruman falls, he doesn't jump off or away from the tower. Yet towards t...

Re: Future LOTR special edition?

I could have lived better with a guard spitting over the edge to see how long it would take to hit something at the bottom, than to try and swallow that stupid flaming swan-dive by Denethor. You really don't like that dive, do you? Probably all the Tower Guards have already spit over the edge, exce...

Re: LOTR's EE soundtrack?

Yes, I had forgotten about the book; it's supposed to be included in the box set. It also makes sense that it's what's holding things up. It's disappointing to think that the box is another year off, when I'd been hoping to see an announcement any day now, but at least I know I can cool my jets for ...

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