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No need to use profanity or be insulting. (nt)

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C.B.

In Reply to: RE: "What was it about anyway?" posted by J.R. on March 17, 2010 at 10:19:53

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You call that insulting? - J.R. 18:26:18 03/17/10 (5)
If I'd insulted you, kid, you'd be in intensive care somewhere. Look
above you; Victor's insulting Auph without provocation. It's what he
does. By the way, did you know that J.R.R. Tolkien held the Rawlinsonian
Chair of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford for twenty years? He was a world famous
philologist and a close friend of C.S. Lewis, but I bet you don't like
or understand the Narnia films either. Go bite some tires or suck some
trailer hitches. Yours,

J.R.
- I'm very well acquanted with Tolkien and his books... - C.B. 19:07:47 03/17/10 (1)
  I've even re-traced many of the rooms and buildings that Tolkien inhabited at Oxford.
  
  I just don't think the films (especially the mind-numbing computer-effects) did justice to his books.
  
  But then, most film adaptations of great literature fall short, don't they?
  - Cool. - J.R. 19:22:01 03/17/10 (0)
    I wrote my Master's thesis on Tolkien many years ago; it was entitled
    "An Annotated Glossary of the Proper Names in the Mythopoeic Fiction of
    J.R. Tolkien." I thought Jackson did a pretty fair job with an
    extremely difficult task and I thought most of the CG stuff was adequate
    especially in the opening battle scenes where the One Ring is taken from
    Sauron. With the advances in CG, as evidenced in "Avatar", I would think
    that a remaking of LotR would be astonishing. Anyway, I thought Jackson
    did rather well the primitive technology at hand. But, hey, I'm hardly
    an objective observer. I really wanted to like the films, and I did, but
    I've been told I'm a cheap date. Regards,
    
    J.R.
- Wow. You do have some problems. What's with the anger, lately, around here? - tinear 18:51:43 03/17/10 (2)
  Be happy, health care reform is on the way. That means you can afford stronger meds and shock therapy!
  - Why are you not watching "Gadjo Dilo"? NT - J.R. 19:06:20 03/17/10 (1)
    NT
    - Been there! Good film though I'd say overrated. nt - tinear 08:28:41 03/18/10 (0)
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