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1 [lbo-talk] New Libyan Prime Minister is U.S. Citizen -- rank: 199

... push around the grandsons and granddaughters of Omar Mukhtar. In Tolkien's words: "Strange and wonderful I thought it that the ...

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Author:	Dennis Redmond
Date:	Tue Nov 1 13:24:12 PDT 2011

2 [lbo-talk] Rolling Stone: Kill Team -- rank: 199

... from a book that I don't much care for: Tolkien's Ring. Gandalf is jawing with Saruman, and suddenly stops ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Tue Mar 29 17:46:42 PDT 2011

3 [lbo-talk] No Country for Exasperated Men -- rank: 199

... I become, a darkly shining thing, crisply alienated and, like Tolkien's Galadriel, simultaneously beautiful and terrible to behold. Yes, wholly ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Mon Nov 23 13:28:30 PST 2009

4 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 598

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > Someone, I think one of Tokien's friends, claimed the background was WW > 1. > > He himself always denied hotly that the work was allegorical. But one > passage near the end sort of confuses things. The ...

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Author:	Gar Lipow
Date:	Fri Nov 20 19:32:13 PST 2009

5 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 199

... I always loved the LOTR multiverse. The contradiction is that Tolkien > was a Rightwing Tory, but his text is a complete ...

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

6 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 199

... I always loved the LOTR multiverse. The contradiction is that Tolkien was a Rightwing Tory, but his text is a complete ...

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

7 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 315

... those reactionary things that is still worth reading and enjoying.  Tolkien was no Pound, but to me his prose sang. Also ... But, to me, the glimpses of a Middle Earth that Tolkien more than half believed existed more or less as desc

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

8 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 398

... included in that. Lord of the Rings was written by Tolkien as a single work, and broken up into separate books ...

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

9 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 398

... included in that. Lord of the Rings was written by Tolkien as a single work, and broken up into separate books ...

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

10 [lbo-talk] Sarkozy proposes measuring 'happiness' and 'well-being' to replace the 'cult of the market' -- rank: 199

--- On Tue, 9/22/09, Dwayne Monroe dwayne.monroe at gmail.com> wrote ............ This explains a lot and helps me understand your obvious (and often repeated) disdain or distaste for conferences...and perhaps any sort of political activity not directly tied to ceaseless movement.         --------------not that it matters, but you ...

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Author:	mart
Date:	Tue Sep 22 14:13:32 PDT 2009

11 [lbo-talk] kids today -- rank: 199

National Lampoon would have to fit in there somewhere. On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:06 PM, socialismorbarbarism < socialismorbarbarism at gmail.com> wrote: > Mark Bennett <bennett.mab at gmail.com> wrote: > > I read "Steal This Book" in high school in the early '70s, but I only > knew > > one other student ...

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Author:	Mark Bennett
Date:	Sat Mar 7 08:54:07 PST 2009

12 [lbo-talk] kids today -- rank: 199

... The Trilogy [sic] of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien; All four volumes of the teachings of Don Juan (and ...

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Author:	socialismorbarbarism
Date:	Fri Mar 6 23:06:32 PST 2009

13 [lbo-talk] America -- rank: 199

... Eubulides wrote: > Uh, it's 2009; aren't there other Tolkien tales you can tap for your > geopolitcal vocabulary? :-) Actually, these ...

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Author:	Max B. Sawicky
Date:	Tue Jan 27 03:35:47 PST 2009

14 [lbo-talk] America -- rank: 199

... Eubulides wrote: > Uh, it's 2009; aren't there other Tolkien tales you can tap for your > geopolitcal vocabulary? :-) Actually, these ...

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Author:	dredmond at efn.org
Date:	Mon Jan 26 23:23:23 PST 2009

15 [lbo-talk] America -- rank: 199

... era... > > -- DRR ============== Uh, it's 2009; aren't there other Tolkien tales you can tap for your geopolitcal vocabulary? :-)

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Author:	Eubulides
Date:	Mon Jan 26 12:49:50 PST 2009