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Post by Angmar on May 13, 2007 19:33:56 GMT
Hi, I really like The Circles. It's got a little of everything, action, adventure, suspense, romance (hopefully more of this in the future), and cliffhangers, lots of cliffhangers. I wonder what will happen with the twins and the Nazgul, and if they will get back to Rohan? I also wonder if Goldwyn will come out of her coma. Her 3 boys are really cute. Eagerly looking forward to find out what happens next. Hello, Elvendreamer. Great to have you with us! No hints, but I can promise there will be a lot more adventures to come in the future, including a few amorous ones. ;D
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Post by Elfhild on May 15, 2007 7:56:36 GMT
Welcome, Elvendreamer!
Ahh, romance. Each book of The Circles has one or more major themes, and romance plays a big part of several of them. Of course, there is always passion, but passion does not necessarily involve love. ;D
Exciting things will be coming in the next few chapters, so keep reading.
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Post by Agan on May 20, 2007 18:31:27 GMT
Great new chapter of the Circles. Ents... waw! It made me think of this new picture by Alan Lee quite recently posted by Olmer on Entmoot: Huorn
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Post by Angmar on May 20, 2007 20:41:17 GMT
Agan, thanks for sending this great picture. I had never seen it before. However, when I wrote this scene, this is exactly what I had envisioned in my mind for the destruction of the two orcs by Oakheart. That would be the big partbreed Uruk, who was much more humanoid-looking than Dalgumhâl.
A small spoiler. We will meet Sharapul the Man-swiver near the end of Book Four or the beginning of Book Five.
Again, thanks for sending the picture.
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Post by khazarkhum on May 21, 2007 20:45:22 GMT
Hi
The site looks great.
Too bad Oakheart didn't leave the boys some weapons.
Oh, BTW--Oaks=Acorns. They aren't hard to prepare into a nice meal.
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Post by Angmar on May 21, 2007 23:17:59 GMT
Welcome, Khazar! Great to see you, and thanks for the kind remarks. Oakheart is not another Treebeard. As a matter of fact, he is a very self-serving tree. Oakheart would never do anything heroic or even helpful. In fact, he doesn't care about anything, unless it relates to himself. He is a tree which is going entish, the wild huorns of which Treebeard spoke. He has two sides - a moderately good one and a really bad one - and no one wants to get on his bad side. I understand that practically every kind of oak tree has edible acorns. The trick is to wash the smashed up acorn meal sufficiently to leach out all the tannin. Again, great to see you.
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Post by Elfhild on May 22, 2007 4:51:09 GMT
Hello, Khazar! Thanks for commenting. Great picture, Agan!
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Post by Agan on Jun 3, 2007 22:07:18 GMT
Delightful new chapter, Angmar. Do chickpeas really have all those properties ? Tushratta's lecture is unforgettable. One sees a scientist immeadiately - he spoke for half an hour and managed to say nothing practical. Poor Esarhaddon! There is a typo you might wish to correct - in this sentence: Scowling at Sang-mí, ... cheetah had dug its teeth into his arse and was dragging him him off to his lair!" I can't wait to see what happens with EE's! Agan
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Post by Angmar on Jun 4, 2007 4:41:26 GMT
Agan, thank you.
While I cannot vouch for the veracity of any of the remedies described in the story, I can say that I find chickpeas (also called Garbanzo beans) delicious and enjoy eating them in various ways. Now, other than gustatory uses, here are some quotes as to their alleged benefits.
According to Dr. Nicholas Culpeper, 17th century n English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer, "chick-pease or cicers" are less "windy" than peas and more nourishing. Placed under the dominion of Venus, they offered a number of medical uses, including increasing sperm and milk, provoking menstruation and urine, and helping to treat kidney stones. Wild cicers were thought to be especially potent. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickpeas
The feats of Abou el Heïdja are chronicled in The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight (also called The Perfumed Garden for the Souls Recreation) by Sheikh Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nafzawi, translated in 1886 by Sir Richard Francis Burton.
Abou el Heïdja has deflowered in one night Once eighty virgins, and he did not eat or drink between, Because he'd surfeited himself first with chick-peas, And had drunk camel's milk with honey mixed.
Of his speaking abilities, most would concur that he was outstanding, until after his lecture was over and they tried to glean one useful piece of information from what he had said. How many of us have known people just like Tushratta? ;D
Thanks for telling me about this error. I appreciate it when people tell me about things like that. I sometimes miss them.
There are more adventures ahead, but the sisters won't be back for several more chapters.
Thanks for reading.
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Post by Elfhild on Jun 5, 2007 20:35:41 GMT
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