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...Boris Yeltsin, 1931-2007 --> "But no, I don't recall anything heroic about him, because there has never been any heroism. Not even when he climbed that tank in Moscow in August 1991 to thwart the hard-liners' putsch. There has been an enormous and stunning political intuition and cunning. He always felt how things would turn out - and that was why he was always capable of turning the situation his way. August 1991 was no exception: he had instinctive grasp of things. He felt instinctively what he had to do to win. At the time, he knew as instinctively...
...There was nothing heroic left about Yeltsin. In fact, there has never been. There was nothing heroic about his climbing that tank - he knew damn well he was safe; it was a gesture to seal his victory over those inept putschists. He just found an appropriate moment that worked for him to do that...
...There wasn't anything heroic about him fighting Gorbachev either - in fact, he continued what Gorbachev started. Gorbachev ruined the Soviet Union. Yeltsin ruined Russia. He led to having this country robbed and pilfered. He hasn't done anything good to us. All he has done has been negative. The new rich have benefited under him. But he has done nothing for the ordinary people...
...good fortune to be trained by elves in wicked swordsmanship. Your villain is the cowardly and spiteful Morgoth, your basic evil incarnate, who squats in his dark fortress of Angband and makes war on all that is just and beautiful. Children is written in Tolkien's full-on high-heroic style, which is sometimes hilariously dorky and faux-archaic, and as a short subject it never achieves the towering operatic grandeur of the trilogy. But it's still a huge pleasure to be back in Middle-earth and see it in a younger, wilder era. There's plenty of lore...
...Children is written in Tolkien's full-on high heroic style, which is light on the characterization and sometimes hilariously dorky. (An example, chosen more or less at random: Túrin's helmet "was made of grey steel adorned with gold, and on it were graven runes of victory. A power was in it that guarded any who wore it from wound or death, for the sword that hewed it was broken, and the dart that smote it sprang aside." Et cetera. The book also comes with some pseudo-Blakean illustrations by Alan Lee.) But once you surrender...