The "What Are You Doing This Moment" Thread

[damnromulans]

cabbage is lethal.

I'm half-assedly applying for part-time jobs in Albany NY on Craigslist. This one was kinda awesome, I'd be OK with doing this: http://albany.craigslist.org/ofc/2446355921.html

My "cover letter" email to them included my height/weight as well as the following phrases: "diversity quota," "100% clean mental health slate," "carrier pigeon" and "I'll call you." FFFUUUU I hate this.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

move to Illinois and be my cook/sex slave...

 

[damnromulans]

not with those farts

 

[voilenoir]

About to finish the trilogy LOTR

 

[damnromulans]

yaaaay voilenoir, don't cry too much.

Got a Chinese-language phone call. Told them in Chinese I'm not Chinese. It begins early.

 

[Astrum]

never could finish LOTR. ever. i've put down a lot of series with as dry as writing and far more pages. but for some reason, could never finish that goddamn thing...

unless your talking about the movies.

 

[The Butt]

The LOTR books are fucking awesome. I used to read The Hobbit + The LOTR books a lot but I haven't picked em up in YEARS. Maybe I'll start reading em again this week.

 

[The Emptier]

I have the thing where all the books are in one, I'm going to read it after my tom wolfe collection

 

[mutantllama]

I remember a few months ago I started reading the Fellowship for the first time in years, and never ended up finishing it, not because I was bored or anything, just never ended up picking it back up.

 

[Astrum]

i always get to the last book and just run out of gas

 

[Blind Guardian]

You could say that the main strength of LotR is the mythology of its world. The actual story of the books isn't all that amazing, imo. My favourite Tolkien book is Silmarillion, where that mythology is expanded upon.

 

[skeptik]

The best Tolkien, in my opinion, is The Children of Hurin. It's by far his most accomplished fictional writing and storytelling in my opinion. Anyone who is a fan of his other books but hasn't read this should definitely do so.

 

[Der Morgenstern]

Trying to decide if it's worth the money to go see Origin, Vital Remains and Hate Eternal on Monday night.

 

[mutantllama]

You could say that the main strength of LotR is the mythology of its world. The actual story of the books isn't all that amazing, imo. My favourite Tolkien book is Silmarillion, where that mythology is expanded upon.

I had a hard time reading The Silmarillion the first few times I tried reading it and only got in a fourth of the book. Then again I was 12-14. Now I love it though.

 

[Vilden]

Silmarillion is great, but it starts out really heavy with the whole creation of the world thing so I understand people having a hard time getting through it.

I've always liked the Books of Lost Tales versions of the stories more though. While not as canon they are more engaging and epic to read.

 

[Cronopio]

 

[The Emptier]

uh...

 

[skeptik]

I've always liked the Books of Lost Tales versions of the stories more though. While not as canon they are more engaging and epic to read.

Have you read any of the History of Middle-Earth books beyond the 2 Book of Lost Tales? I have 11 of the 12 but I haven't managed to get past the 2 Book of Lost Tales yet.

 

[Blind Guardian]

Silmarillion is great, but it starts out really heavy with the whole creation of the world thing so I understand people having a hard time getting through it.

I've always liked the Books of Lost Tales versions of the stories more though. While not as canon they are more engaging and epic to read.

I take it that the difference between Silmarillion and the Books of Lost Tales has to do with the style of narrative? The narrator in Silmarillion is very detatched and distant from the content, almost making it read like, for example, the Bible.

 

[The Emptier]

Getting my place cleaned up a bit, two old friends from back home have been road tripping and are gonna crash here for the night