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...first hug). 4. Charlie and the Cocaine: Never before have I seen such an on-again off-again relationship portrayed on TV. And don’t tell me that hobbits and coke don’t go hand in hand, because they totally do. You know J.R.R. Tolkein was sniffing those white lines.3. Hurley and the Numbers: Imagine winning the lottery, only to find that the blasted numbers you used were cursed. But Hurley is oddly obsessed with the numbers—do they have cream filling?2. Jack and Sawyer: I see the hot man-on-man sexual...
...headlong into the oncoming enemy, a death that allowed the Byzantine empire to pass with an honor not usually associated with the end of a civilization. Reading accounts of the terrific battle waged on the triple wall of Theodosius, one cannot help but think that they must have influenced Tolkein and his siege of Gondor...
Cute little guys yearning for home, lost royalty, evil entities, magical creatures and massive armies battling it out for the future of humanity. Sounds familiar, right? Yes, the central plot seems lifted directly from Tolkein's fantasy masterpiece, but Smith has enough talent and imagination to remake it into something entirely his own. For one thing, it's funny. Nearly every page has some bit of business, like when Fone's hat spontaneously combusts upon catching Thorn preparing for a bath. Smith also puts together clever set pieces, such as the Great Cow Race, where Phoney introduces a "mystery...
...Tasting like certain wood 44. It starts in Enero 45. Did some straining 46. “No ifs, ___, or buts!” 47. Tropical ray 48. Screaming 49. Like mullets and parachute pants today 50. Wedge served at breakfast 51. Tuneful 55. A foot wide? 56. Tolkein tree creatures 58. Blue 59. ___ de France 60. Change: abbr. 61. Slowly, in music: Abbr...
...TWENTY-FIVE years, Richard Adams was a bureaucrat in Great Britain's Ministry for Housing and Local Government, mediating between federal housing policy and local sensibilities. This strong dose of reality perhaps explains the difference between England's two most famous modern fantasies-Watership Down and J.R.R. Tolkein's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Tolkein, a professor of English, invented a whole mythological world for his fairy-tale creatures to inhabit; they in turn, are more concerned with forces of good and evil than with practical necessities like food, clothing, and shieter. Adams's rabbits, on the other hand...