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dark_trooper

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Thats an easy one STARWARS any one who thinks it's not should die and rot in the firery depts of hell
 
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vogon13

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Apples and oranges.<br /><br />I liked them both for different reasons.<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>
 
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rhodan

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<i>...any one who thinks it's not should die and rot in the firery depts of hell</i> <br /><br />Now that's not very nice.
 
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vogon13

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Yeah, that needed a <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> on it somewhere.<br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>
 
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mariecurie

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It may be interesting to some that Harry Potter is even more popular amoung adults than children. <br /><br />You don't think it's kids that put each book on the best seller lists for months on end, do you?<br /><br />There are mysteries in the Harry Potter books that adults the world over are trying to solve. See Mugglenet.com.
 
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CalliArcale

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It's a remarkably addictive series. I'm solidly hooked. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br /><br />It's surprising how many so-called children's books can be enjoyable for adults. One good example is the Dark Is Rising series by Susan Cooper. Another is the Black Cauldron series by Lloyd Alexander. And everybody knows about Narnia, of course.<br /><br />Which is better, Star Wars or Harry Potter? I don't think they're really comparable. They're both very enjoyable. Which I prefer will depend on my mood at the time. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>
 
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mariecurie

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So you think we should die and rot in hell?<br />Would you care to add anything else to that?
 
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contracommando

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Isn’t that Radcliff kid growing facial hair by now? Time to recast?
 
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rhodan

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I had facial hair before I was born. <br /><br />(Lanugo that is....<img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" />)
 
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vogon13

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He can take those injections Michael Jackson uses.<br /><br /> <img src="/images/icons/tongue.gif" /><br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>
 
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mariecurie

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Speaking of Michael Jackson, did you see on AOL where he is going to build an airport/runway for aliens?
 
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beartooth

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Why so the illegals can FLY in instead of walk-in to the US?
 
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kane007

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As long as he builds it in Bahrain or were ever he is hidding in the Middle East! <br /><br />Harry Potter - better read.<br />Star Wars - better watch.
 
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lampblack

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I agree that they're apples and oranges, and that each has its own appeal. But to narrow it down a bit: it might be fun to talk about the Jedis' use of the Force, compared to wizardry in Harry Potter. Both are essentially highly disciplined, powerful forms of magic.<br /><br />Who employs the more interesting magic -- Yoda or Dumbledore?<br /><br />Yoda's magic is more blatantly militaristic, in that Dumbledore doesn't carry anything remotely like a light saber. On the other hand, Dumbledore could likely handle himself pretty well in a fight -- and his magic has a broader range of useful applications.<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#0000ff"><strong>Just tell the truth and let the chips fall...</strong></font> </div>
 
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mariecurie

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Dumbledores magic frequently reflects a sense of humor that is much more humanizing than the force.<br /><br />He combines the wisdom of a Jedi Knight with the antics of an eccentric. Or did.<br /><br />As much as I love Gandalf, Dumbledore is a better wizard. Gandalf is probably less gullable: oops, I was forgeting about Saruman duping him. Well, Gandalf is still more realistic. Ooops, I forget, this is fantasy.<br />Oh, nevermind! <br /><br /><font color="orange">I may be as woefully wrong as Humphrey Belcher who believed the time was ripe for a cheese cauldron… but, as I have already proven to you, I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being, forgive me, rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.”….”Yes, Indeed!” said Dumbledore, HP& The Half Blood Prince.<br /><br /></font>
 
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lampblack

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I've got to say that I love old Gandalf, Ms. Marie. Anybody who can wrestle with a Balrog and emerge from the pit a better man for the experience has my vote for being the toughest wizard around. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#0000ff"><strong>Just tell the truth and let the chips fall...</strong></font> </div>
 
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mariecurie

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Ha!<br />That's my very most favorite movie image!<br />Gandalf riding the Balrog out of the pits of Khazad-dum!<br /><br />Gandalf in the movies does have Dumbledore in the movies beat, for sure.<br />It's hardly fair to compare them though. While both are called Wizards, Gandalf was the equivalent of a lesser angel whereas Dumbledore was just a silly old fool with incredible talents.<font color="orange"><br /><br />"The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of humanity. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their humanity." Confucius</font>
 
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lampblack

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Maybe we could arrange for a three-way battle of the wizards involving Gandalf, Dumbledore, and Yoda.<br /><br />My guess is that Dumbledore would manage to befriend each of the other two -- and end up standing to one side, watching with a bemused expression while Gandalf and Yoda pummel the stuffings out of each other.<br /><br />Of course, *then* Dumbledore would have to deal with the survivor. Not a pretty thought, although odds are good he could talk his way out of the situation.<br /><br />I agree that there are hints (both in the movies and in the books) that Gandalf is something more than just a man. But the same might be argued for each of the other two. Dumbledore is (or was) reputed to be 150 years old, and Yoda was 800 years old.<br /><br />There's something just a little spooky about each of 'em. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#0000ff"><strong>Just tell the truth and let the chips fall...</strong></font> </div>
 
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avaunt

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Ok.<br /><br />J Rowlings is a pedestrian writer, not to say a HACK, but she HAS collected the coming of age cliches of the British Folkstories in a pleasing , easy to digest series. And this has had a VERY good effect on young people vis their taking up reading, so she is a good person for our society.<br /><br />HOWEVER.<br /><br />Her plots are QUITE obvious, almost stamped out of a mould she found in the office of one of the original writers from Chums* annual. <br /><br />If Harry himself doesn't actually turn out to have been Voldermorts final Horcrux, and Snape a good guy, with Dumbledore ASKING Snape to kill him, simply to spare the young Melfroy the damage of being a murderer, and killing his own headmaster, then I am a hobbit. I look to see Melfroy junior side with the good, and aid H.P. at the cost of his ( Melfroys) own life, right at the final knock. How do i guess this?. A VERY well read life in British Childrens and youths Stories. <br /><br />now, if I were writing these, things would get a little MORE climatic and serious than they will.<br /><br />*ahem*<br />"Tonys Plot re-write of H.P."<br /><br />Dumbledore (DDor) has been aware all along, that H.P. is NOT what he seems. <br /><br />Voldermort (Vldmt) is the greatest Necromancer the worlds have ever seen. Once he had made the 5th Horcrux (H+) he went after HPs mum and dad, but he didn't stop there. He KILLED HP also.<br /><br />Using the three souls, and his greatest magic ever, he made HPs corpse a ZOMBIE (HPZmb) , but a zmb of such excellence, that it is indestinguishable from a living baby. And who would suspect it, anyway?. People don't SUSPECT babies of treachery.<br /> Splitting his (Vdmts) soul AGAIN, he places far and away the largest piece of it, INSIDE the HPzmb, and places a couple of triggers on it. In effect making HPzmb the final ( 7th ) Horcrux ( H+ )<br /><br />If HPzmb is in danger, VDMTS souls fragment will partially surface, ensuring HPzmb of protection by a magic of the first order. (This is wh
 
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mariecurie

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Gandalf is in the same class of being as Morgoth, Saruman, and Melian, who was Elrond's Great, Great Grandmother.<br />They are called the Maia and were originally a part of the mind of Illuvatar. The were sent by him to assist the Valar in the creation of Middle Earth. <br />Morgoth became a lieutenant of Melkor, who was the Valar who became evil, committed murder, bred the first orcs, and stole the Silmarills. When Melkor was overthrown, Morgoth essentially stepped into his shoes.<br /><br />You probably didn't need to hear all that, sorry.<br />It's a story I love to share.
 
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lampblack

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Ahhh... another fan of the Silmarillion! Although I should probably describe myself as a former fan, given that it's been so many years since I've looked at it.<br /><br />Lord -- I think it was about 30 years ago (when I was 15) that I first picked up a copy of that book. It's a wonderful resource for plugging the holes in Tolkien's universe.<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#0000ff"><strong>Just tell the truth and let the chips fall...</strong></font> </div>
 
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lampblack

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I feel led to correct a detail from the previous post.<br /><br />I first read the Silmarillion a few months after its initial U.S. release which, according to Amazon, happened in October 1977.<br /><br />So I probably picked up a copy in early 1978. That would have made me 18 and a senior in high school. I recall being in love with Tolkien (well, with his writing, at any rate). The old boy was probably as responsible as any other single factor for my becoming an English literature major in college.<br /><br />I've been poor -- but happy -- ever since.<br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#0000ff"><strong>Just tell the truth and let the chips fall...</strong></font> </div>
 
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