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16 [lbo-talk] Local, Austin anti-bailout protesters... -- rank: 199

I haven't seen them...but I live a pretty sheltered life lately as I've been mostly locked in a room working on my diss. But there does seem to be this odd group of people down here that thinks he's up to something special, as if libertarianism is ...

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Author:	Sean Andrews
Date:	Thu Oct 2 13:58:09 PDT 2008

17 [lbo-talk] Recommended Reading -- rank: 199

... pillage and plunder. It is a toxic unity, which, like Tolkien's Ring-of-British-Empire, totally corrupts whosoever tries to ...

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Author:	dredmond at efn.org
Date:	Tue Mar 18 14:20:35 PDT 2008

18 [lbo-talk] Lord of the Rings musical in London -- rank: 517

... 5 million pound theatrical extravaganza. The stage adaptation of JRR Tolkien's fantasy saga officially opened on Tuesday night with actors ... at recreating Middle Earth. The $25 million show based on Tolkien's literary trilogy about a Hobbit named Frodo and his ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Wed Jun 27 15:56:06 PDT 2007

19 [lbo-talk] Thanks to the Frey program, I'm going to rich famous and beloved (was, More Dolan on Frey) -- rank: 199

... The Lord of the Rings (1954) Author: J.R.R. Tolkien "The book is not readable because of the overuse of ...

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Author:	Andy F
Date:	Wed Feb 1 14:18:58 PST 2006

20 [lbo-talk] Narnia -- rank: 199

... Has anyone ever noticed that there is no religion in Tolkien's the Lord of the Rings? I mean, The Silmarillion ...

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

21 [lbo-talk] medical prose -- rank: 199

[via Sam Smith's Progressive Review <http://prorev.com>] <http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/323/7317/875/a> BMJ 2001;323:875 ( 13 October ) Reviews Soundings Deeply moving BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL - One of a doctor's unwritten roles is just to be there, to be a witness, a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 22 15:07:20 PST 2005

22 [lbo-talk] Uplink 2 -- rank: 199

The August issue of Uplink, a.k.a. the Tolkien issue, is done: http://www.efn.org/~dredmond/Uplink/CurrentIssue ...

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Author:	Dennis Redmond
Date:	Sat Aug 6 23:18:11 PDT 2005

23 [lbo-talk] From failed, surreal dreams to a plague of fantasies -- rank: 199

... more or less, the way we see *Star Trek* or > Tolkien's works. That's part of it. She has a ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Fri May 6 22:30:20 PDT 2005

24 [lbo-talk] From failed, surreal dreams to a plague of fantasies -- rank: 199

... more or less, the way we see *Star Trek* or Tolkien's works. Just as no sensible person would declare the ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Fri May 6 14:39:12 PDT 2005

25 [lbo-talk] Reactionary fantasy and leftists (was Narnia) -- rank: 315

... people who become legend then become myth and then > gods). Tolkien's LOTR being the most po

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Author:	amadeus amadeus
Date:	Fri Mar 11 19:44:20 PST 2005

26 [lbo-talk] Reactionary fantasy and leftists (was Narnia) -- rank: 315

... people who become legend then become myth and then gods). Tolkien's LOTR being the most popular example. Where the ideology ...

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Author:	John Bizwas
Date:	Fri Mar 11 18:44:06 PST 2005

27 [lbo-talk] Re: Marketing the Chronicles of Narnia -- rank: 462

... my recommendations, let me say here I prefer Lewis to Tolkien (or Harry Potter for that matter). I think Lewis is ... Milton?). Christians see the danger, too, in some aspects of Tolkien, but I suppose its more his use of Indo-European ...

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Author:	John Bizwas
Date:	Thu Mar 10 21:25:53 PST 2005

28 [lbo-talk] Marketing the Chronicles of Narnia -- rank: 199

... high English teacher of fundamentalist leanings assigned these awful things. Tolkien is definitely preferable to C.S. Lewis, and I've ...

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Author:	John Lacny
Date:	Thu Mar 10 14:13:24 PST 2005

29 [lbo-talk] D&D Player? you're detached from reality -- rank: 199

... distaste for Wagner in Israel? D&D is derived from Tolkien, whose "Lord of the Rings" is in turn painfully derivative ...

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

30 [lbo-talk] W gloats; Clinton cheerleads -- rank: 199

Elves in Tolkien are not cute, diminutive, risible. They're lofty, noble, old ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Thu Mar 10 13:55:54 PST 2005