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121 Buffy -- rank: 361

First, the Buffy fans on this list persuaded me to check it ... and it is indeed a delight. But, it runs afoul of a literary principle I worked out decades ago while reading the *Lord of the Rings* and Milton's epics.. All conscious beings are ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sun Feb 21 16:46:35 PST 1999

122 [lbo-talk] D&D Player? you're detached from reality -- rank: 348

> Does the Israel Defense Forces believe incoming recruits and > soldiers who play ... are unfit for elite units Could this be related to the (once understandable for obvious reasons, but now I think quite ... Wagner in Israel? D&D is derived from Tolkien, whose "Lord of the Rings" is in turn painfully derivative of (and to my ...

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Author:	John Lacny
Date:	Thu Mar 10 14:02:28 PST 2005

123 Milton -- rank: 348

I don't know, although I see plenty of copies of his books around. Not the fad it once was. But then, hey, how extensively read ... PM Subject: RE: Milton >>Tolkien's popularity with hippies in >> the late 60s. > >Well, I sure loved the Lord of the Rings, Barkley, but yours is the >first ...

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Author:	J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Date:	Thu Mar 4 12:29:15 PST 1999

124 Life and Debt -- rank: 333

... and Debt I just saw this last week at one of our local independent theaters, and can't recommend it highly enough. If as many people from, say, the U.S. and Euroland saw this film in the next three months as saw Lord of the Rings - well, who's to say what might be ...

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Author:	/ dave /
Date:	Fri Jan 25 11:14:00 PST 2002

125 [lbo-talk] USA 2003 -- rank: 333

>one thing not mentioned in this discussion of THE LORD OF THE RINGS >is that the bad guys in Tolkein all seem ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Mon Sep 15 13:57:24 PDT 2003

126 [lbo-talk] Re: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan and Hobbitt References -- rank: 333

... magcomm at ix.netcom.com>: > Dear List: > > Miles wrote: > > > Reading Lord of the Rings is kinda like reading the Bible (I'm serious!). > Even if you're not into it, you need to read it to understand the culture > of our society. > > That our society glorifies white ...

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Author:	cqmv at pdx.edu
Date:	Wed Jun 9 13:14:25 PDT 2004

127 [lbo-talk] Atlas Sucked, Redux -- rank: 327

The pseudo-trailer's just all right, but this comment is ... that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that ...

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Author:	Mark Bennett
Date:	Wed May 4 15:53:03 PDT 2011

128 [lbo-talk] Re: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan and Hobbitt References -- rank: 311

Dear List: Miles wrote: > Reading Lord of the Rings is kinda like reading the Bible (I'm serious!). Even if you're not into it, you need to read it to understand the culture of our society. That our society glorifies white ...

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Author:	BklynMagus
Date:	Wed Jun 9 12:34:59 PDT 2004

129 MJ -- rank: 305

... Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Doug Henwood wrote: > Michael Jackson over the years: > <http://www.doneanddusted.co.uk/nick/Movie2.html>. AAAIIGGHH... the horror, the horror. That inflicted almost as much retinal damage as those ghastly ads for the Lord of the Rings. The one and true MJ remains <http:// ...

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Author:	Dennis Robert Redmond
Date:	Sun Dec 2 16:20:44 PST 2001

130 Milton -- rank: 280

>Tolkien's popularity with hippies in > the late 60s. Well, I sure loved the Lord of the Rings, Barkley, but yours is the first reference to Tolkien ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Thu Mar 4 11:03:51 PST 1999

131 [lbo-talk] Re: this months monster-demon-satan -- rank: 271

... a tv series...ooops, it is! but seriously, this kind of breathless belief in whatever we are told is what makes ... do we live on? have people been watching too much lord-of-the-rings-matrix stuff? and what is "perfect justice"? something exercised by "perfect" people? if this were cuba, the batista regime would still be in power. fs

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Author:	frank scott
Date:	Wed Dec 17 13:54:03 PST 2003

132 [lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan -- Killer, Coward, Conman -- rank: 265

... into Shrek-ese or Finding Nemo-ese? Not everyone on >the list knows Tolkein code. :-) OMIGAWD!! Ian! Haven't you read Lord of the Rings??!! _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the MSN Premium and get 2 months FREE* http://join. ...

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Author:	Todd Archer
Date:	Tue Jun 8 18:38:44 PDT 2004

133 [lbo-talk] Re: this months monster-demon-satan -- rank: 240

... a tv series...ooops, it is! > >but seriously, this kind of breathless belief in whatever we are told is >what makes ... do we live on? have people been >watching too much lord-of-the-rings-matrix stuff? So your point is that SH wasn't ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 17 14:00:36 PST 2003