15-12-2003 22:03									#1
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OK, I'm getting stoked for this. I'm sure I'll see it over the weekend. How about you?

And here's Queen Margrethe II of Denmark taking in the movie. I must say that as a confirmed Republican, all this royalty stuff is starting to wear on my nerves.

Currently receiving 100% on the tomatometer @ 9.4 rating.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/The...heKing-1127213/

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	15-12-2003 22:06									#2
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who's the guy bowing ?

	15-12-2003 22:08									#3
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Looks like Aragorn (Vitto Mortsomething)

	15-12-2003 22:08									#4
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That's Viggo Mortensen.

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I'll be watching it in 51 hours (Wednesday, 3pm showing).

-Arrian

	15-12-2003 22:13									#6
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For a second there I thought we had a thread about Saddam weaseling his way back into power again.

	15-12-2003 22:14									#7
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Nah, Saruman Saddam is toast.



-Arrian

	15-12-2003 22:22									#8
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Ahem... King Hussein is the king of Jordania (IIRC)

	15-12-2003 22:31									#9
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Indeed he is. You weren't taking either of our posts seriously, were you aaglo?

-Arrian

	15-12-2003 22:34									#10
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take a wild guess...

I mean, come on. take you guys seriously...

	15-12-2003 22:37									#11
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Aren't the strongest US supporters all monarchies?

UK - Monarchy
Spain - Monarchy
Netherlands - Monarchy
Denmark - Monarchy
Italy - erm... party pooper, as always

On the other hand:

France - Republic
Germany - Republic
Russia - umm... that's a hard one... Bureaucracy?

	15-12-2003 22:37									#12
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I'm curious about why people in Scandinavia and Finland like these movies so much. On average, they've gone to see these movies more than your typical American!

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japan -- monarchy
skorea -- authoritarian republic

	15-12-2003 22:43									#14
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Russia - Oligarchy

	15-12-2003 22:47									#15
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Russia a strong US supporter. Hahaha!

	15-12-2003 22:48									#16
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I listed them "On the other hand"...

	15-12-2003 22:50									#17
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Hey, isn't Germany a big US supporter? NATO in Afghanistan and all?

	15-12-2003 22:52									#18
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According to some anti european trolls not. According to Ned we are already Americas enemies.

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quote: Originally posted by DanS I'm curious about why people in Scandinavia and Finland like these movies so much. On average, they've gone to see these movies more than your typical American!

Could it be the fact, that tolkien borrowed quite a lot from viking saga's and Kalevala (the national epic of Finland). In addition to that, the elvish is somehow - i don't really know how - based on finnish...

but this is only wild guessing...

wait. If you've seen the extended dvd of the Fellowship of the Ring, in the first appendix disk: in the first chapter they talk about life of professor tolkien... somewhere there (for a few seconds) there is a picture of the book 'Kalevala'...

	15-12-2003 22:53									#20
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and italy hardly counts as a republic. governments change so often...

though with berlusconi, you could make the case it's a corporate republic.

	15-12-2003 22:54									#21
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Btw (and returning to the topic): I will go and watch the movie somewhere in my xmas vacation.

	15-12-2003 22:55									#22
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quote: Could it be the fact, that tolkien borrowed quite a lot from viking saga's and Kalevala (the national epic of Finland). In addition to that, the elvish is somehow - i don't really know how - based on finnish...

Wouldn't you look at this as a poor bastard child of the infinitely better Kalevala? When are they going to do a movie of that?

	15-12-2003 22:58									#23
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at least the finns can spell. finnish orthography is leagues above english orthography.

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No, I'd rather see kalevala as the clumsy prototype, and LOTR as the finished ferrari.

really

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Q Cubed -
what is orthography?

	15-12-2003 23:01									#26
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http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=orthography

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The two elvish languages Tolkein created were based on ancient Finnish.

That, and it's a damn good story. Those Scandanavians are up there with all that snow, Dan, and don't have much to do

-Arrian

edit: besides drink, watch movies, mangle rap, and plot world domination (in the case of the Finns)

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quote: Originally posted by Sir Ralph According to some anti european trolls not. According to Ned we are already Americas enemies.

But it would take a lot to make Americans dislike German/Austrians. Mmmmmmmm Bratwurst and Beer. We forgive you for the sauerkraut concept.

France on the other hand.............

	16-12-2003 01:26									#29
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I've read "Kalevala for the lazy" It's a really cool story actually.

	16-12-2003 02:19									#30
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For some reason, I doubt I could find Cliff's notes in English for Kalevala.

Wonder when we're going to have a movie adaption of Beowulf.