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My vote for best non-curse SciFi word:

Grok

from Stranger in a Strange Land

I had to vote for Zark.

Goram isn't a great curse word, but Firefly probably is the best SciFi on the list. Firefly does have LOTS of great cursing though.

You zarking frood.

And also appears that he was forced to 'escape'. Steve Remember also, that he was "Gandalf the Grey" during that time. I dare say that if they would have tried to attack or besiege Gandalf the White, the Nine would have met with a foe that they would have regreted engaging... Remember that Gandalf'...

I am trying not to get my hopes up, but I am looking forward to the showdown between Anakin and Obi-Wan ala "You were the chosen one!" from the trailer. EPI and EPII were very broad, which required the characters' relationships and development to be fairly light. Based on EPII, you would think that ...

Also, all of my ripped stuff was in WMA format so I wasn't about to go through the whole process again for Apple's AIFF(?) format. Eww! WMA? the iTMS (music store) sells m4a files encoded with Apple's AAC compression. Which is better quality than MP3. iTunes can also encode in a variety of other fo...

lol... weird book, but somewhat funny. the movie looks like it'll be taking some liberties... purists need not apply. DON'T PANIC The script was co-written by Douglas Adams, so I think that the liberties are allowed. Also, the book took liberties with the Radio Play. The legacy of HHGTTG is revisio...

Yes, i did it. It is going to get some heavy revision and refinement over the next few weeks, but the foundation is there.

I'm not nuts about the design as it is - want to add a lot more embelishments.

Well, obviously I would debate with Sam regarding when and where JRRT departs from traditional Christian theology, but I think it is incredibly interesting that he does portray death as a gift, rather than a punishment. Really, it is more inline with Christianity than it would appear on the surface....

Perelandra should be considered Lewis' Opus.

It is easily he best work - fiction or non-fiction. Insightful, startling, amazingly poingnant and observant.

Out of the Silent Planet is also very very good.

Tolkien said he "thought" the healing of Frodo, and the rest of the mortal races in the Undying Lands was "temporary."

So no.

I agree the the WK and gandalf is a low moment.

I enjoyed Theoden's pep talk, but I am not sure which of his battle cries I like more:

Now for Wrath, for ruin and a red dawn

or

Ride to ruin and the world's ending

Both are pretty good.

More about Tom and Goldy: As I think about it, in the various writings outside of LOTR (Sil., HOME, etc), Tolkien explains (or speculates) about the origins of just about everything natural and preternatural in ME, including all the good and evil races, the Eagles, Balrogs, Ents, etc. The fact that ...

They'll never find the Entwives, who are probably near the Shire, and they'll die or sleep until they become as good as ordinary trees. Treebeard talks about Ents becoming more like trees, and becoming fewer. Clearly, the Ents are a passing race. Does idoron know? But yes, neither of them are morta...

Belithraldor wrote:I was thinking that maybe Christopher Tolkein named the rest of the nine.....

No, they come from the Middle Earth role playing series.

Let's go by the actual book Ug. Definitely. Why in the world does PJ have the Witch King break Galdalf's staff? THe only answers that I can come up with make NO sense. It also draws an erroneous parallel between Saruman, whose staff was broken when he was defeated and Galdalf whose staff is broken ...