MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 2617

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) RE: languages
	by Dark Starwind <dark_starwind-+AT+-yahoo.com>

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Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 05:11:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dark Starwind <dark_starwind-+AT+-yahoo.com>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk
Subject: RE: languages
Message-ID: <20010620121154.29573.qmail-+AT+-web13103.mail.yahoo.com>


--- Robert Martin <rmartin-+AT+-gatewayticketing.com>
wrote:
> >      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
> 
*~*~*~*~*~*~
     It's true that without "The Two Towers" we
wouldn't have a lot of clues, key events, and
characters, but the book seems to be the one that
simply isn't as interesting as the other two.

Dark Starwind


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