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1 [lbo-talk] USA 2003 -- rank: 1000

... hobbit has a computer printout above his desk which reads, >>"MORDOR SHALL FALL". >> >>-- DRR >> >> > >I watched the second "Rings" last night ... s a Baedeker to get you started. 1) Sauron, in Mordor, is massing his forces to take over Middle-Earth. His ... still seeking the One Ring, which Frodo is taking to Mordor to destroy. 2) Saruman, a powerful wizard, has decided to ally himself with Mordor. To supplement Sauron's Orcs, and to build himself a ...

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Author:	Brian Siano
Date:	Mon Sep 15 11:19:01 PDT 2003

2 [lbo-talk] release from mordor, please? -- rank: 933

budge wrote: [could you please lose the orcing html -- thanks] ====== Que? All of my messages - outgoing - are 100 percent, grade A certified plain text. No html leaves these firewalled shores. If you're receiving html marked "idoru345" it's being mangled into this unholy format between me and thee. ...and later ...

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

3 Storm of Mordor -- rank: 898

... entered he was speaking to the king. 'It comes from Mordor, lord,' h

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Author:	Dennis Robert Redmond
Date:	Tue Mar 18 18:17:53 PST 2003

4 In the Land of Mordor Where the Shadows Lie -- rank: 898

... 28, 2003 6:50 PM Subject: In the Land of Mordor Where the Shadows Lie > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Thomas ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Fri Feb 28 18:58:57 PST 2003

5 [lbo-talk] ChuckO and the Rings of Mordor -- rank: 898

Comrade Chuck, Look, to be a bit smart-assed about it, we know what kind of social order predominates when people are reduced to pre-industrial conditions: feudalism in all its forms - warlordism, gangsterism, what have you. Compared to those social forms, fascism is a picnic in the park. Why do ...

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Author:	boddhisatva
Date:	Tue Sep 16 12:49:48 PDT 2003

6 [lbo-talk] ChuckO and the Rings of Mordor -- rank: 898

... positive use. You have to show me > your Ring of Mordor before you can credibly suggest that something as > obviously useful ...

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Author:	Chuck0
Date:	Tue Sep 16 15:36:19 PDT 2003

7 [lbo-talk] Now Hiring: The University of Mordor -- rank: 898

Bet you didn't know Mordor had a linguistics department: http://chronicle.com/jobs/id.php ...

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Author:	dredmond at efn.org
Date:	Fri Oct 10 01:15:05 PDT 2003

8 [lbo-talk] ChuckO and the Rings of Mordor -- rank: 855

Chuck0 wrote: > > No, I'm not saying that technology is evil in and > of itself. Many of us here will agree that certain > technologies are inherently evil. Like the atomic bomb. Just wondering, what do you think of this argument in favor of the atomic bomb? At the start of this ...

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Author:	W. Kiernan
Date:	Tue Sep 16 19:29:38 PDT 2003

9 [lbo-talk] release from mordor, please? -- rank: 855

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 at 11:29am Dwayne Monroe wrote: > > Good lord, what an arctic blast! mission accomplished then. > I love discussions that are, in some way, animated by > LotR. The battle lines are always predictably drawn. > Someone praises the work - if not directly, as in "I > love it", indirectly ...

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Author:	budge
Date:	Wed Jun 9 14:19:08 PDT 2004

10 [lbo-talk] release from mordor, please? -- rank: 855

> Differences in taste I understand but I'm puzzled by > the passionate 'no'. I always thought of Tolkien as the godfather of postmodernism. All the formal categories of the media culture are there -- the politics of seeing and being seen, air-time as symbolic capital, the travails of being a ...

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Author:	Dennis Redmond
Date:	Wed Jun 9 13:38:50 PDT 2004

11 [lbo-talk] release from mordor, please? -- rank: 855

"budge" wrote: (yes, i read them multiple times when i was a child. yes, i remember enough to 'get' most of the tortured references. no, the posts with these refs are not very enlightening, informative, or even interesting to read, so i would not bother to read the silly books ...

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

12 In the Land of Mordor Where the Shadows Lie -- rank: 855

I wish I could remember the exchange word for word, but anyway it's the scene were Aragorn is trying to convince the King of Rohan that he must fight. The King says that his people are tired of fighting and Aragorn responds that they are coming for you and you ...

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Author:	Peter K.
Date:	Sat Mar 1 11:22:50 PST 2003

13 [lbo-talk] Ted Sandyman: Mordor's subaltern (was: note from a publicist) -- rank: 855

Doug quoted: >As reported by the Associated Press: "With just a flicker of blue light, >little Johnny's mother may know for sure whether her son washed his hands >before dinner. New light-scanning technology borrowed from the >slaughterhouse promises to help hospital workers, restaurant employees - >one day, even kids - make ...

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Author:	Todd Archer
Date:	Mon Apr 5 17:10:39 PDT 2004

14 In the Land of Mordor Where the Shadows Lie -- rank: 855

>From the same website: >Project ASUKA Euro-eva battles the Angels of Neoliberalism >Eurokeiretsu Might of the Sephiroth >S2 Engine IG Metall containment shield is operational What does Neon Genesis Evangelion have to do with neoliberalism? This is a very odd website, very odd indeed.

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Author:	Steven McGraw
Date:	Fri Feb 28 19:26:59 PST 2003

15 In the Land of Mordor Where the Shadows Lie -- rank: 855

On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Thomas Seay crossposted: >SLOUCHING TOWARD BAGHDAD.... >By Mike Davis > >For all the geekspeak about networks and ecosystems, and >millenarian boasting about minimal, robotic warfare, >the United States is becoming a terror state pure and simple: a >21st century Assyria with laptops and modems. Undeniably true. Of ...

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Author:	Dennis Robert Redmond
Date:	Fri Feb 28 18:50:10 PST 2003