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- 2005-11-17 10:44pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: CS Lewis didn't write a Christian story...
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3357
With regards to Tolkien's dislike for allegory, wasn't that more of an issue with people trying to link the books to WWI and WWII, nuclear atom bombs, etc? Tolkien does not say it but the anti-allegory thing is an academic controversy. Allegory was seem by some (Poe for example) as a minor form of ...
- 2005-11-05 10:22pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Olympus vs. Asgard
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3610
- 2005-11-03 10:38pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Olympus vs. Asgard
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3610
- 2005-11-03 10:01pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Olympus vs. Asgard
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3610
- 2005-11-03 09:38pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Olympus vs. Asgard
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3610
- 2005-10-06 12:53am
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: Catholic Church no longer swears by truth of the Bible
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1180
My house's Bible, one of them, Catholic, from my grandmother already says that the events in the OT are not accurate but rather symbolic. The Book of Job is considered rather a parabole for quite sometime...All in all, the catholic church have been smart enough to avoid confrotation with scientific ...
- 2005-09-28 12:36am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Kender in LOTR
- Replies: 4
- Views: 919
- 2005-09-05 12:01am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: what constitutes epic fantasy
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1149
- 2005-07-20 11:27pm
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: Narrative structures and fate in fiction (warning: long!)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1602
- 2005-07-20 12:28am
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: Narrative structures and fate in fiction (warning: long!)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1602
Oh, I see what you are talking now. You are talking about the whole Classic vs. Romatism controversy...Just your teacher called Classic as Modernism, where all diferent art styles are either in one side or another in a cyclical change-destruction-reconstruction... I have learned in high school that ...
- 2005-07-16 11:56pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: V for Vendetta
- Replies: 9
- Views: 628
David Lloyd have been here one hear and a half ago, the guy is a funny dude, got drunk with brazilian drink and red like a tomato...well, i was in a table with him during an interview and he claimed a - Alan Moore is a genius, it was a great pleasure to work with him b - They would change things if ...
- 2005-07-16 12:03am
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: Narrative structures and fate in fiction (warning: long!)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1602
I am confused by some afirmations... How realism is the most popular stuff when we had Jorge Luis Borges, Proust, Joyce, Kafka, Oscar Wilde, etc who had nothing to do with Realism ? This is another note, the first post claims that modernism does not work with the notion of fate is totally false. Bor...
- 2005-07-01 11:45pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: The One Ring ends up on Earth
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1772
- 2005-06-15 11:54pm
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: How many countries do WORSE post-independence?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1053
Chile also managed to come to independence with relatively little bloodshed, though that was because they had a solid, long-term dicator in power. Brazil was good until the mid-90's, I think. Brazilian independence is quite unique because it was a fake independence. When Pedro I proclaimed the inde...
- 2005-05-21 01:08am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Essential Fantasy
- Replies: 64
- Views: 7144
- 2005-04-23 11:33pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Is the Lord of the Rings Different from Most Fantasy?
- Replies: 83
- Views: 4040
The bigger peril is to think Elfs, Goblin and orcs are a perfect species. There several creatures that are called elfs and not all of them are described equally. However I guess the poster is just using an example... He want us to say that most RPG's have tolkien classification and organization as i...
- 2005-04-20 11:51pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Is the Lord of the Rings Different from Most Fantasy?
- Replies: 83
- Views: 4040
Wait, the elves were gay on purpose? Tolkien was thinking of gays when he portrayed the elves? No, The Elves love to sing (The Entire world was created by a song), are chivalirous, slender, elegant and basead upon the Sidhe of old mythology who had nothing of Gay. Even Galadriel is described as a m...
- 2005-04-13 12:32am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Is the Lord of the Rings Different from Most Fantasy?
- Replies: 83
- Views: 4040
- 2005-03-05 10:17pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Religious Inclinations of heroes
- Replies: 46
- Views: 23287
He didn't say it wasn't on this Earth, he said it wasn't on Earth. That is because Eden is not on earth, but regardless, That have nothing to do with what I was saying and this comment does not change anything about the probally view of Gaiman... I at least took that to mean that the judaeo-christi...
- 2005-03-03 02:49am
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Religious Inclinations of heroes
- Replies: 46
- Views: 23287
- 2005-03-01 10:49pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Religious Inclinations of heroes
- Replies: 46
- Views: 23287
Wolverine also proclaims to not trust any God to save him but he does not disbelief him. Which is pretty much the best logic possible in DC and Marvel also, because the existense of God(s) there is without doubt. I remember an old number of Avengers - It was when John Byrne, George Perez and John Bu...
- 2005-02-19 09:52pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Fantasy Cliches, Brain Bugs and other annoyances
- Replies: 91
- Views: 6546
- 2005-02-16 09:35pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: Fantasy Cliches, Brain Bugs and other annoyances
- Replies: 91
- Views: 6546
- 2005-02-12 09:49pm
- Forum: Fantasy
- Topic: SirNitram Hates Doomsday(And other insights)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2408