av_nefardec
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You might want to suggest that idea in the WFG main forums, so that the webbies read it
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What's the size?
You need to have it on a server (a website) and then you need to link it with img tags, where there is
[img]url of your image here[/img]
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You guys missed the point of my post:
Intelligence, Thought, Design -
These are all the same as a piece of wood when you break it down. Therefore to say that an intelligent being created something is no different than to say a piece of wood splintered and made a new piece of wood.
Thought and Ideas are not spontanteously generated from nothing, they are composed of matter just as everything else is. So intelligence is just the same as, say evolution of the body to develop sensory organs. There's nothing unique about thoughts or minds when compared to anything else.
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I always believed the Ents were created by Yavanna.
And Glorfindel - I didn't think the issue was completely resolved. I always thought Tolkien never decided if he was the same elf or not.
But Tom Bombadil is different than all of those things. Tom was created in a world TOTALLY separate from Arda. At least Hobbits and what not were created in a book that has since become part of Arda's mythology, but as far as I know, the Adventures of Tom Bombadil is just a footnote in Tolkien's life's work compared to LotR or The Hobbit.
I don't think we ought ever to know 'who' Tom Bombadil is in terms of other beings, places, or events. He is separate from the mythology in our world just as he is in the literary world, and Tolkien obviously wrote it that way for a reason.
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I'm going to be doing some site updating soon, so I want to know what I should work on first. Please be aware we have some 5 independent civ articles and a race article all typed-out and ready to go, I just need to finish some concept art pieces for each of them, which takes some time and inspiration.
Gameplay Articles is possible, but they may change frequently at this point in time since the design document is still very green and flexible.
Fan Artwork - again, I'm waiting on more artwork for this.
Also please understand that the game engine itself (not test programs or anything) is in a high-level design phase still, so at the moment we're unable to provide new screenshots.
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No, enigmas are not meant to be solved, and if you consider "not being part of the mythology", being part of the mythology in some way, than it's a difference in interpretation, not a difference in empirical fact.
(PS check your mail
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No he did want him in - as an engima that didn't fit exactly with the rest of the mythology (i.e. not as a vala, maia, or other such being)
even in a mythological Age there must be some enigmas, as there always are. Tom Bombadil is one (intentionally)This isn't the same as any other thing in his mythology. Even the hobbits fit it with a lot of things - Smeagol and Deagol were early Stoors, a race of hobbits, and they first recovered the ring, and so Hobbits were forever attached to the ring. What is Bombadil attached to? Nothing central to the mythology.
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but the thing is to try and find an angle of which he fits into the mythologies
But that's what I mean - he's not MEANT to fit into the mythology, he was just thrown into it!
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So when you look at our world, it has to be apparent that an intelligent being designed it and created it.
Not exactly, when I see a car, I see raw elemental materials synthesized for eons and eons in the forge of time, then combined with other elemental materials, humans, to create a new substance.
Humans are, unfortunately, just another manifestation of the same universal matter.
As the Lakota-Sioux Prophet, Black Elk, said - "We are all grass"...
When you think about it, human interaction at any level is no different than interaction, say from dropping a baking soda tablet into a glass of vinegar - the same subatomic processes are going on, just more of them in different places.
Just think how when you are talking to another person, the atoms in your cells that make up your body, your brain, larynx, etc, etc are made of the same elemental material that moves sound waves to the other person, that changes into electrical impulses, axons, dendrites, nerves, parietal lobes of the brain, etc - everything is the same.
So when you say a car was created by a human, that's true, but that's only looking at a small part of the picture. The car was not 'spontaneously' generated by a human, like the universe as portrayed in the Judeo-christian mythology. The car is part of universal matter that has been around for eons and eons, just like the matter that humans, and this text are composed of. It makes no difference if a human "designs" them for this reason - what makes the act of a human designing something more important than the act of marble forming over the years as a result of heat and pressure on limestone, for example?
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That's right, experiments by Robert Urey early in the 20th century created saccharides and hydrocarbons and what not - I also think it will become possible in the future, but that's a VERY long way off.
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I'm unconvinced Tom WAS Aulë.
The valar closed the borders of Valinor and thereafter was all the contact Tolkien wrote about the Valar had with ME.
Now, I'm open to the idea Tom was an avatar of Aulë, or perhaps a maia of Aulë, and similarly Goldberry a maia of Yavanna, but I seriously doubt 'The Smith" would be anywhere without rock, jewels, Dwarves, or Noldor nearby for a good part of time.
My personal opinion on the matter is that Tolkien had this character he created for his children's bedtime stories that he grew to like, he published poems about him a few times in some literary journals/papers, and then decided to throw him in the compendium of mythology he was creating. In other words, just like Tom exists in the literary world as a being "before" time, an enigma with no real contributions to the mythos itself, so he exists in our world as a literary character who was created before the Lord of the Rings was written, a divergent character, existing independently from the large body of Tolkien's work.
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Well I'm not saying there is one 'right' way, just that I'd rather come up with my own idea as long as it's supported by the literature.
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well at least it wasn't 2 FPS
I liked it too, just because it felt different to me. (i never have played WC3)
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@Frumpus - that may be a secret level or something, not part of the story, just for "what if?" fun.
Because PJ makes a big deal out of Sauron only existing as an eye during the third age (which is completely bogus)
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*slaps SUD a high five*
Finally someone who thinks like I do when it comes to this
life has never been created in a test tube.Well, from scratch that is, because it would take an incredible amount of time and an incredible amount of matter.
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I was against the recall in the first place. Given it's 'democracy' at work, but it's a part of democracy that was deliberately left out of the US Constitution by the US's founding fathers for this very sort of situation - the fear that the nation will be in the hands of a circus crowd.
I respect Arnold Schwarzenegger as a bodybuilder and a businessman, and if I had to vote for anyone it would be him because he's pretty moderate (and we don't want cali liberals to do another recall.. *groan*)
But in all seriousness, I doubt ANYONE could 'fix' the california deficit problem, and we're likely to see his economic actions take effect after he's out of office, so he'll probably be robbed of his praise by the governor who takes his place.
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I sincerely hope we're not headed towards total cybernetic interaction, because I will be one of the "purists" who refuse the machines and will build a bunker in the woods to resist it
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Yeah, the principles behind art are more and more eclipsing 'traditional' visual aesthetic appeal it seems, for something less tangible. But these will no doubt be in a constant state of flux as ideas change with time.
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Re: Oil, etc
Yeah, that's a poor reason to go to war on UN grounds I agree. Personally I think my administration should have thought harder about this and come up with a better excuse
No I don't actually believe that
But more than oil - because I see logical reason for going to war with oil, and I tend to think more logically than 'morally' -
It's abhorrent to me to think that this was some kind of religious crusade against Islam. That has always been the main difference between my personal views and those in my country who have similar views on most issues. (I'm somewhat a rare-breed in my country in this regard) I am anti-religion in the since that it promotes imperialism based on unfounded reason. A recent comment from a US military official really got me angry - something about fighting "Satan". *shakes head*
I don't live in a fantasy world here, that's saved for the books I base my project on. If we go to war for oil, that's for something real, that I will feel the effects of in the world, and that's at least partly reconcilable to me then. But I thought the crusades were a thing of the 12th century...
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The hero eagle units like Thorondor, Gwaihir, Meneldur, and Landroval will be quite fearsome enemies.
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yes there is a channel that connects.
Any proof to suggest your theory Adam?Well yes, the fact that there is nothing to suggest the contrary
Besides that, Tolkien himself once drew a part of Barad-dûr, and it looked more like the outer wall of a castle on a crag than the sort of spired tower we see in the movie. I've always personally imagined it as a larger, dominating building complex, a mountain in its own right, with tall spires, of course. What kind of supreme dark lord of the world would want a single tower when he can have as many as he wants?
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Looks nice, I'll probably get it. I heard it much improves upon what they did with TTT.
I guess I'm still a bit worried though that all this movie merchandise will encourage one depiction alone of ME
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Where did the book say this exactly? AFAIK the exact pair was left ambiguous.
The website:
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Frumpus you need not worry as a team member - you'll be reading the design document before this stuff is released publicly on the website