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1 [lbo-talk] release from mordor, please? -- rank: 1000

... and later, in the same post, regarding the perfidy of LotR fandom on LBO... it is so cloyingly offensive. it is ... s only one person on the list who consistently uses LotR stuff in his posts and even he does it only ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Wed Jun 9 16:33:26 PDT 2004

2 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 824

I'm with you, Gar. Certainly not crap, whatever problems I have with book or films (and those problems are very different). Catherine -----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org on behalf of Gar Lipow Sent: Fri 20/11/2009 18:15 To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk ...

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Author:	Catherine Driscoll
Date:	Thu Nov 19 23:30:56 PST 2009

3 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 824

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:31:16AM +1100, Mike Beggs wrote: > Speaking of blowing things up, auteurs, and films related to Peter > Jackson, did anyone see District 9? Definitely the best sci-fi and > action film of the year, and it was both non-Hollywood and had a lot ...

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Author:	Gar Lipow
Date:	Thu Nov 19 23:15:03 PST 2009

4 [lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan and Hobbit references -- rank: 824

... 2004 at 11:28am Miles Jackson wrote: > > > > Hmm. I consider LOTR one of the most important works of > > fiction in the ... of people in the US that have > read *any* of LOTR is pretty small, like less tahn 10%. No, you're miscontruing my point. I'm not claiming that LOTR is influential, like the Bible; I'm arguing that LOTR reflects many important values and beliefs in our society. --If ...

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Author:	Miles Jackson
Date:	Thu Jun 10 09:37:57 PDT 2004

5 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 824

... Lipow <the.typo.boy at gmail.com>  I know that LOTR is widely hated among serious leftist, being dismissed as something ... can get past the pastoral longing are driven away from LOTR by the endless travel description.,But, to me, the glimpses ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Nov 20 00:03:03 PST 2009

6 [lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan and Hobbit references -- rank: 711

... 2004 at 11:28am Miles Jackson wrote: > > Hmm. I consider LOTR one of the most important works of > fiction in the ... of people in the US that have read *any* of LOTR is pretty small, like less tahn 10%. except for people ...

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Author:	budge
Date:	Wed Jun 9 13:34:31 PDT 2004

7 [lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan and Hobbit references -- rank: 711

... the Bible have been around, what, over two thousand years? LOTR's been here for less than a century. You're ... our society that are >well explained by the stories in LOTR; it just isn't that >universal. LOTR has lots of Biblical and Christian references. Todd _________________________________________________________________ Add photos ...

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Author:	Todd Archer
Date:	Wed Jun 9 14:00:34 PDT 2004

8 [lbo-talk] Reading the Ring -- rank: 711

... Wed, 9 Jun 2004 at 5:00pm Todd Archer wrote: > >> LOTR has lots of Biblical and Christian references. > > duh. > > like i ... them. > > why read the knockoff when the original is available? LOTR isn't Christian. In terms of theology, the books come ... era capitalism. It's not about personal taste, though. The LOTR epic is hugely popular and touches some deep-seated geopolitical ...

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Author:	dredmond at efn.org
Date:	Wed Jun 9 18:49:59 PDT 2004

9 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 561

... pm, Gar Lipow wrote: > novel to film. I know that LOTR is widely hated among serious leftist, > being dismissed as something ... for reactionaries and hippie types. Hmm, I always loved the LOTR multiverse. The contradiction is that Tolkien was a Rightwing Tory ...

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Author:	dredmond at efn.org
Date:	Fri Nov 20 14:59:55 PST 2009

10 [lbo-talk] Narnia -- rank: 561

... story that plays no role in the Hobbitt or the LotR, but none of the peoples in the LotR has any religions, priests, churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, or whathaveyou ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Tue Dec 20 07:38:19 PST 2005

11 [lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan and Hobbit references -- rank: 561

... our society that are > >well explained by the stories in LOTR; it just isn't that > >universal. > > LOTR has lots of Biblical and Christian references. duh. like i ...

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Author:	budge
Date:	Wed Jun 9 14:24:55 PDT 2004

12 [lbo-talk] release from mordor, please? -- rank: 561

... I love discussions that are, in some way, animated by LotR. The battle lines are always predictably drawn. Someone praises the ... BBC I think it was – sparked by the announcement that LotR had been named the “best book” of the 20th century ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Wed Jun 9 11:29:12 PDT 2004

13 [lbo-talk] Re: Film Notes -- rank: 561

... Office on Monday, October 27th. http://www.filmlinc.com/specials/lotr/lotr.htm 2) Also on October 27th there will be a ...

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Author:	BklynMagus
Date:	Tue Oct 21 10:09:57 PDT 2003

14 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 561

... pm, Gar Lipow wrote: > >> novel to film. I know that LOTR is widely hated among serious leftist, >> being dismissed as something ... for reactionaries and hippie types. > > Hmm, I always loved the LOTR multiverse. The contradiction is that Tolkien > was a Rightwing Tory ...

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Author:	Michael McIntyre
Date:	Fri Nov 20 15:34:45 PST 2009

15 [lbo-talk] "Not another f*cking elf..." -- rank: 355

... WW1 veteran Hugo Dyson, when Tolkein was reading drafts of LotR to his friends. Which was pretty much my feeling about ...

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Author:	Grant Lee
Date:	Thu Jun 10 00:28:45 PDT 2004