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Not to put too fine of a point on it (except that I am) what the Scarecrow says about the Isosceles triangle is totally wrong.
So he's still pretty stupid... or, rather, whoever wrote the screenplay was "geometry-challenged."
Not to put too fine of a point on it (except that I am) what the Scarecrow says about the Isosceles triangle is totally wrong.
So he's still pretty stupid... or, rather, whoever wrote the screenplay was "geometry-challenged."
Don't think I've posted this before. In any case, I'm dumbfounded by the number of responses that say 'yes' yet still seem to imply they are fans of the book.
Don't think I've posted this before. In any case, I'm dumbfounded by the number of responses that say 'yes' yet still seem to imply they are fans of the book.
Martin would love to have readers vote his work the greatest book(s) ever written, as they did (twice) for LOTR.
Except it's not going to happen.
Martin will go to his grave with an incurable case of "Tolkien envy".
I have to wonder if Martin is being a bit tongue-in-cheek with that response. In any case it's these so-called fans that I'm more concerned about. One guy says, "He basically just gets Stronger after Dying. Which logically mary Sue’s him" 🙄 Another likens it to the invincibility of Superman 🫤
Yet another says it's "obviously great" but exhorts you to "imagine" what it would be like if Gandalf stayed dead, which as much as saying re-imagine the book. Which is, frankly, a bit silly. I mean, why? Especially if it's so "obviously great". Makes no sense.
Anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here, but she never says this. In the first movie, in the opening sequence she says, "One by one the Free lands of Middle earth fell to the power of the ring."
Yet another annoying "what if" question. What if, indeed? Would even Tolkien know? Or did he take Gandalf out of the picture (temporarily), just as he did in The Hobbit, to make the story more interesting, not just for the reader but for himself?
Why this obsession with "what would have happened?"
Yet another annoying "what if" question. What if, indeed? Would even Tolkien know? Or did he take Gandalf out of the picture (temporarily), just as he did in The Hobbit, to make the story more interesting, not just for the reader but for himself?
Why this obsession with "what would have happened?"
It's not limited to LOTR or any other Tolkien works (or PeeJ movies).
I have BA in History (ASU '96), emphasis on Western Civ.
I can't tell you the number of people**, when they find I "studied history", who want to discuss "what would have happened if <insert historical figure or happening> had <done this, occurred in this way> and not <done that, occurred that way>."
My answer: a polite "No."
If they keep insisting, my answer: another polite "No" with an added "It's a waste of time unless you want to write a novel of historical fiction, In which case, have at it, but I'll not be joining you."
**They are always younger than 50 so I guess "alternative history" is popular with the younger set.