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Reply to Lord of the Rings: Aragorn, Numenor, Elrond, and Galadriel in Movies & TV & Books JoeUser Forums

Strykar, have to disagree about Aragorn and other Númenoreans . My impression was that Númenoreans were substantially hardier. More resistant to injury. They weren't "super human", but they were basically the best combination men could be. I.e. the best human genes put together.

Reply to Lord of the Rings: Aragorn, Numenor, Elrond, and Galadriel in Movies & TV & Books JoeUser Forums

Solitair - indeed, Balrogs were Maia but there were a LOT of them in the opening battles of Beleriand. THere were also a lot more dragons, ones that would make Smaug look like a chump. Clearly the power, wisdom, and strength of the peoples of middle earth have faded. The LoTR series is really the final chapter of Middle Earth, it's the end of the line really when the time of men and of mundane things would begin.

Reply to Why Kyoto failed in Politics JoeUser Forums

. Yea, deception. How about liberal hypocricy? Which gets more press? Whining about Kyoto or treaties to reduce REAL pollution from the atmosphere. When liberals start showing some concern over China's massive pollution problems intead of bitching because Clinton (not Bush) didn't get the Kyoto accord through congress, then maybe you'll have some credibility.

What do you want for Christmas? How about a lawsuit? in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Man, what a week it's been. It started well. Last week before Christmas and Lord of the Rings: Return of the King starting. But then things went down hill. One of our competitors on the desktop side, TGT Soft, apparently was feeling festive and decided to file a lawsuit. On Wednesday Stardock received a lawsuit from TGT Soft that was filed in Louisiana. It's largely about one of our programs, IconPackager. The world's first and most popular way to change

Review: Return of the King in Movies & TV & Books JoeUser Forums

There are so many reviews already of Return of the King that I won't waste time going over the basic plot point. The question at the end of the day is "how good is it?" The answer is - very good. Now, I have some minor spoilers in here so just skip the rest if you're really paranoid. I'm not giving away anything crucial, just tidbits. On IMDB , I gave Fellowship of the Ring a 10. It's the only movie I've ever given a 10

Reply to Why Kyoto failed in Politics JoeUser Forums

I sure hear more about Kyoto being evil Bush than say effort being put in to stop things like...oh say pumping lead into the air.

Reply to Lord of the Rings: Aragorn, Numenor, Elrond, and Galadriel in Movies & TV & Books JoeUser Forums

To put things in perspective -- Balrogs used to be a common foot soldier of Morgoth. By the third age (Lord of the Rings time frame) there's one balrog left hanging around and he was enough to destroy the Dwarven city in Moria on its own. By contrast, Feanor's generation could take out balrog's in on one one fighting. The high elf king did serious harm to Morgoth himself. It seems likely that that elf could have taken out Sauron 1 on 1.

Reply to Lord of the Rings: Aragorn, Numenor, Elrond, and Galadriel in Movies & TV & Books JoeUser Forums

I do agree that those who worked with the Valar gained a great deal, the waning of the elves seems also to be the result of each generation not being as good. Remember, Feanor's mother allegedly put her full energy into the birth of Feanor. The first elf to "die". I'm just theorizing. But I also believe that Aragorn's strength is inherent in himself more so than merely being tutored by elves. The elves are the stronger race to be sure but they definitely diminished. Whehtehr that dm

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Reply to Lord of the Rings: Aragorn, Numenor, Elrond, and Galadriel in Movies & TV & Books JoeUser Forums

Legolas is just a garden variety Sindarian elf. Aragorn could beat him easily in a fight. Only Eldrond, Galadriel, the wizards, or a balrog could take down Aragorn in one on one fighting. I'll try to think of some other stuff. I'm going to see the movie in a bit so then I'll be able to do more. I lost my book (Return of the King) so I'm having to remember things from quite awhile ago.

Reply to Defining a Republican in Politics JoeUser Forums

Why are you so obsessed with religion? Religion dominates the Reublicans in teh same way that criminals dominate the Democrats. That is, people who are very religious tend to be Republican and people who have criminal records tend to be Democrats. But that doesn't make Republicans "religious" or Democrats crooks. Republicans are not instant dollar gratification either. If you did more research, you would find that Republicans tend to save their money much more so than Demo

Reply to Defining a Democrat in Politics JoeUser Forums

You have just demonstrated why the Democrats keep losing. Liberals have bought into the myth that the majority of people agree with liberal views. They don't.

Reply to Saddam in the Jailhouse, Hu Jintao in the White House in Politics JoeUser Forums

LOL. No, the hawks have been very specific about what the war was about. You just choose to select different things. Here's a good link written way back that puts the "hawk" position into light: http://denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/2003/03/Deadlymushrooms.shtml Basically, after 9/11 the world changed. The United States had to do something about Islamic fanatacism or else it would do something about us. To that end, it was decided that Saudi Araba, Afghanistan, Syria, and

Lord of the Rings: Aragorn, Numenor, Elrond, and Galadriel in Movies & TV & Books JoeUser Forums

In part 1 I discussed the relationship between Gandalf, Saruman, Sauron, and the Balrog. Part II: Of Aragorn, Númenor, and third age Elves... Thank goodness Tolkien wrote his books back when he did and not today. Because in today's climate of political correctness the coolest parts of the Middle Earth mythology have to do with the fact that not everyone is equal. You see, there are men and then there ar

The importance of growing management teams in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

One of the things I've come to realize over the years is that our company's management team is incomplete. Much of Stardock's success can be attributed to the incredible talent of our company's developers and management. But as we've grown, particularly in the past year, holes have appeared. For one thing, when you're small, having a management team full of specialists is good. I'm the only generalist in the management team. That works fine when you're a start-u

Reply to Lord of the Rings: Background - Sauron and Gandalf in Movies & TV & Books JoeUser Forums

I agree about Faramir. Though in the extended addition of the two towers they make him a much more sympathetic character.

Reply to Lord of the Rings: Background - Sauron and Gandalf in Movies & TV & Books JoeUser Forums

Aragorn and the background of Númenor is next. Dynosoar, yea, I find the movies to be much more faithful to the spirit of the books. I don't care about specific accuracy to the written word as much as I care about the general spirit. My only real gripe has been the handling of Arwen and Aragorn. They have been together for 40 years. She's 3000 or so years old. There was never any angst over what they were going to do. That issue had long been solved and

Reply to Why Kyoto failed in Politics JoeUser Forums

of course the percentage is nonsensical. It's an arguement about concept. I've taken the absolute extreme to show that there is a limit. In effect this is an exhaustible commodity. If there is a limit then there must eventually be some collective responsibility. If you agree with Lincoln and his "all men are created equal" statement, then why do you feel you have a bigger right to rele

Reply to Saddam's Capture Changes Nothing in Politics JoeUser Forums

Fixating on weapons of mass destruction is a strawman argument. It's pretty hard to take your argument serious about "morality" when it's clear at this point that Saddam was an even greater monster than we had believed. I, for one, never considered WMD to be a significant issue. And I was blogging on this issue BEFORE the invasion occurred so you can go back to JoeUser classic and look it up if you doubt this.

Reply to Why Liberals Are Strongly Disliked — putting it mildly in Politics JoeUser Forums

What do you imagine liberals having accomplished so much of? Look around you and ask yourself whether the things you use on a day to day basis were created by people who tended to be conservatives or liberal. When I meet with other business owners in the course of doing business, they are almost universally conservative in nature. Liberals, by contrast, tend to be the people who have big ideas but cannot execute on them. I have lots big ideas too. Lots of "vision" but I temper

Reply to My Survivor Prediction in Movies & TV & Books JoeUser Forums

Sandra won.

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Cool!

Reply to Here goes the Racism Card Again in Current Events JoeUser Forums

It's been my personal experience that african americans, generally, are much more racist than other ethnic groups I've dealt with including whites. I think that is the reason african americans are so quick to play the race card -- they are so racist themselves that they assume everyone else is too.

Reply to Why Kyoto failed in Politics JoeUser Forums

I think that Kyoto with all its flaws was an attempt to control CO2 emission which is something that all countries should take in account as the price is going to be paid collectively... I don't think that's very wise to submit social or environmental policy to the sake of the economy only. You right about nuclear power, France depends on 70 % and provide eletricity to almost all its n

Reply to Saddam Captured in Current Events JoeUser Forums

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