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MMSadiq reacted to Mad Swede's post in the thread Reading LotR for the First Time: Beauty and Morality with
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I think you should read LoTR all the way to the end, as this may make you rethink some of what you wrote. It isn't quite as straight... -
MMSadiq replied to the thread Reading LotR for the First Time: Beauty and Morality.I know it's not. I'm just talking about my first impression upon reading the foul and fair passage and how that's not really how it is...
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MI want to preface this by saying I'm experiencing LotR for the first time; I've never read the books—not until now, where I'm at the...
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MMSadiq replied to the thread Writing in different languages.Translation is a separate art from writing. For a good translation, you'll have to do away with any machine translations. I have done...
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MMSadiq replied to the thread To map, or not to map?.It helps to visualize the relative size and location of your different geographies and locations, but it doesn't have to be detailed...
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MMSadiq replied to the thread Your Most Hated Tropes.I think it's more accurate to say that he was fond of anything that's traditional of England, not in any xenophobic way. As a matter of...
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MMSadiq replied to the thread Tired of using the same word.It's a Lovecraft invention. Supposedly the mad "Arab," Abdul Alhazared, which means nothing. It's literally Servant of the (abdul) the...
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MMSadiq replied to the thread Tired of using the same word.I know you said you were deployed to the Middle East, but it's surprising that you can read such literarily perverted titles, which I...
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MMSadiq replied to the thread Tired of using the same word.Lexicon is the closet thing, in Modern English, but if you want to adapt an Old English term, wordhoard is the closet thing to thesaurus.