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Lord of the Rings. Harry Potter is enjoyable, but it just can't compete with Tolkien's work.
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oh my god... nerds... time to commandeer the poll?
from now on, Who is the best guard in the NBA? (i wish you had more slots)
HP books is now Allen Iverson
LotR books is Kobe Bryant
HP movies is Jason Kidd
LotR movies is Vince Carter
i'd have to go with LotR books/Kobe Bryant just because points is what matters and you can't **** with his 30 ppg."Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
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Nerds? This coming from someone that likes basketball... eww
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HP books, edging LotR movies. Subject to change if extended edition of TTT is as big an improvement as it was for Fellowship, though I don't know how it could be... TTT was damned near perfect.
I'll take Jason Kidd. He's tougher than Kobe. It's a close decision, though."My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
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i'm unfamiliar with Kidd's ppg though... isnt it around 17 or so though? just over half of Bryant's... not really that great... though i do understand that the guard's main job isnt to rack up points but to move the ball but Bryant clearly does that as well and still manages such a high ppg... i do kind of question how good he would be alone on another team but i still think he gets this."Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben KenobiComment
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Take your threadjack to a thread that actually gives a damn.
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- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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LotR books and movies. Harry Potter is enjoyable, but that's all: it's cheap and cheery, but not particularly good. Movies, there's no contest. LotR is just awesome. No other word describes it.Concrete, Abstract, or Squoingy?
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cinch:
carter just barely made my poll... there's countless other guards who were more than worthy of this limited, four slot poll but i was in some kind of odd mood and threw him in... damn maybe Stockton would've been a better choice especially since he's old school...
anyway just because carter dunks people think he's so great... :rollseyes:"Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben KenobiComment
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I can't believe people actually read that Elves-and-goblins Tolkien rubbish! They're KIDS books for christ's sake!
The LOTR books contain dozens of pages of sterile exposition and stilted dialogue. Half of each of the novels is brilliant, but the other half is a waste of everyone's time.
Harry Potter isn't great art by any means, but neither is LOTR.If I'm posting here then Counterglow must be down.Comment
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Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Lord of the Rings. Harry Potter is enjoyable, but it just can't compete with Tolkien's work.
Ive been into LOTR for 30 years, Ive read the Silmarillion, and i must beg to disagree.
Tolkiens world is fascinating. His mass of details, history, mythology, languages etc. But his charecterizations are weak and his dialogue uneven. In LOTR only the hobbits and Gandalf come off as real characters, not cartoons. And of those, only Frodo and Sam come off as characters with any depth, who really grow through the novels and hold your interest as characters. Whereas Harry Potter is filled with interesting, beleivable characters, who really develop, and whose dilemnas illustrate real human problems.
I guess another way of saying it is that LOTR succeeds as a genre novel - perhaps the greatest genre novel of all time - while Harry Potter succeeds as general literature - though there it must compete with so many great works, that Harry Potter may end up not being thought a classic as much as LOTR."A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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lotr books.In da butt.
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LOTR ... definitely"Ceterum censeo Ben esse expellendum."Comment
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I'm waiting for the crossover.“As a lifelong member of the Columbia Business School community, I adhere to the principles of truth, integrity, and respect. I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”
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People older than say....12, will pick LOTR; for the most part.Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
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