MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 2616 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) RE: languages by "Robert Martin" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 08:26:15 -0400 From: "Robert Martin" To: Subject: RE: languages Message-ID: <000001c0f8bb$094cba10$ca01a8c0-+AT+-rmartin1> > I was once convulsed by laughter in a bookstore > after catching sight of a copy of _Hamlet_ translated > into Klingon. Does anyone know of any sites dedicated > to Tolkien's languages? (I love etymology and am > annoyed that my school has not a linguistics > department.) Sounds like someone took Christopher Plummer's quote from Star Trek: Undiscovered Country literally and published that. > On series': I must argue against the charge that > The_Two_Towers is weak. Sam and Frodo don't simply > 'slog along'; their trek illustrates the Ring's > growing influence on Frodo, and his gradual > unraveling. For Star_Wars, most people I've talked to Agreed. For that matter, we learn some very important information that contributes to events in other areas. We meet Faramir, we learn about Minas Morgul, we learn about Shelob and how Gollum got into and out of Morder. A lot of essential plot points would have been left as mystery without that. Tristaan ------------------------------ End of MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 2616 **********************************