Dragon Ball Z Uncensored

Mike Dunn · (Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:06 am)

The Earthsea books are pretty good.

Yogurtman · (Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:09 pm)

You should probably read The Lord of the Rings before the Silmarillion; the Silmarillion is written like the Bible and is really targeted at extreme nerds. Don't get me wrong, it is awesome, but then again I am an extreme nerd.

I liked the first two Earthsea books but after that I think they dropped off pretty badly.

Theldorrin · (Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:11 pm)

The Silmarillion is actually good and the Lord of the Rings is not.
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Action Hank · (Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:44 pm)

The Silmarillion is superior to anything else he's written, but you should read The Lord of the Rings first to get used to his style. It only gets drier as you get to his unfinished and more obscure stuff.

Fagzilla · (Thu Feb 17, 2011 5:49 pm)

I need to actually read the Lord of the Rings so that I'll be able to say with qualification that it's the most boring, overrated, tiresomely, eye-rollingly venerated thing of the 20th century.

Yogurtman · (Thu Feb 17, 2011 6:03 pm)

Reply so that when you edit your post to say "without qualification" and make sense it has an "Edited by" tag.

Captain PUNisher · (Thu Feb 17, 2011 6:06 pm)

Maybe I will read LotR first, I don't know.
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Captain PUNisher · (Thu Feb 17, 2011 6:07 pm)

Oh, but I actually have The Silmarillion already, and I'd have to buy LotR, so that's a big factor.
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Fagzilla · (Thu Feb 17, 2011 6:17 pm)

No, I meant with qualification, as in, "I will be able to back up my opinion with the proper qualification."

Fagzilla · (Thu Feb 17, 2011 6:21 pm)

Also, your tone! ... a nerve... has been touched...

Perhaps I should have rephrased my statements more diplomatically around an admin!

One does not simply walk into Mordor.

Fagzilla · (Thu Feb 17, 2011 6:21 pm)

(I love you, Yogurtman)

Yogurtman · (Thu Feb 17, 2011 6:28 pm)

Ah. I of course assumed you meant that you would be able to rip on it without qualifying your statement with "I never read it, BUT..."

And come on, you know I have to stick up for Lord of the Rings.

MADali · (Thu Feb 17, 2011 7:18 pm)

It really is the most boring shit ever. I couldn't even finish the first book because it was just a bunch of faggots walking and singing.

Action Hank · (Thu Feb 17, 2011 7:21 pm)

And eating.

Captain PUNisher · (Thu Feb 17, 2011 7:23 pm)

I don't think MADali knows about second breakfast.
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ALDP · (Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:50 pm)

I think it's definitely harder to read the books if you've seen the movies first because at least shit looks cool in the movies and there's a stirring soundtrack and whatever while you see them walk around. I'm glad I read them, though. The gayness between Sam and Frodo is very excellent and you definitely feel IMMERSED in a fully realized magic world where there are monsters and people smoke stuff in long pipes.

Theldorrin · (Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:56 pm)

ALDP makes everything about drugs.
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ALDP · (Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:09 pm)

When the characters smoked drugs from a pipe, it made a personal connection with me and gave me something to identify with. I don't know if you've ever done a drug pipe before, but you typically drift into fantasies about being a wizard who's relaxing, which I found the books evoked, poignantly.

Theldorrin · (Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:31 pm)

You should form a personal connection with Melkor like the rest of us.
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Captain PUNisher · (Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:32 pm)

I realize that this is so 2007 and everything, but I was thinking about Achewood, and I don't know if we ever compared posters here to character from it. I don't know, the only two I have are that Theldorin is Pat and Gimp Mask is Todd.

I haven't read the strip since about when Little Nephew was in Wales in the past. How is it still? Is it worth catching up on?
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