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This was one of the best talks I’ve ever heard.

This is wonderful. I'm going to read it again right away !

I’ll be honest: I’m more of a fan of the movies. All the same, I acknowledge that if it weren’t for Tolkien, I’d never have heard of the Lord of the Rings. In fact, Peter Jackson, the director of the movies, sought to make his movies as a love letter to Tolkien. And to say that everyone involved had worked hard to pay tribute to Lord of the Rings would be a gross understatement.

For anyone who might find this, the relevant paper has been retracted for inappropriate use of statistical techniques.

Thank you

Very interesting- thank you 😊

50 what? Like, age ?😢

I wept at the end of the book and this lecture.

He is popular cause he is good!!!!!!

"Himself" doesn't alliterate with "Hador and Hurin", it actually alliterates with "assembled". The Old Norse verse, which I assume is what Tolkien was referencing with that poem, only ever alliterated on the stressed syllables, not the unstressed ones. The stressed syllables in both "himself" and "assembled" are the second ones, which both start with an S-sound. This actually makes the poem work better: Hador and Hurin are connected through alliteration, while Hurin and Turin are connected through rhyme, but the line with Beren breaks the pattern and starts a new alliterating couplet. This reinforces the feeling that "Beren himself" is somehow set apart from and stands above the three people mentioned before him. The poem from the lecture I'm referring to, for reference: elf-friends of old, Hador and Hurin, and Turin, and Beren himself were assembled

The prof’s conclusion is why I majored in English in early 60’s. I’ve had to justify my degree for years saying Lit used to be taught without a party line. I’m glad such professors as he continue to explain the way of the human heart.

Excellent

Thank you.

This is terrific, I would make one suggestion, steadily expanding economic inequality makes being a parent, especially a single parent very hard. Parents also need healthy environments and this economy does not provide sustainable or even steady security, in fact, zero sum goals of paying millions less than it takes to live, so a few can be mega powerful, must change for true improvement to neurodevelopment

This is terrific👍

It is actually not improbable that people in a strong oral culture would "burst out" in well-formed poetry. If you know your meters and know traditional formulae, that is exactly what they can do.

What do u conclude on curiosity??

Interesting.

How powerful would it be to make these presentations to high schoolers and middle schoolers to create more time in student lives that students live without the misconceptions and stereotypes that persist in educational vacuums that are not providing your information.

1. Open the book 2. Read

Bless Linda Flower. "What kind of a question is that?!" 🤣

Excellent work! I would love to see this specifically focusing on tickertape transmitters after 1860 up until around 1935.

This is hilarious!

The other thing that Tolkien did an extraordinary job of was "delivering" his love of nature right onto those pages. As I read the descriptions of the settings and so on, first of all I felt like I was "there," but even more I felt that it was BEAUTIFUL and wholesome and very much a place that it would be pleasant to live in - a place that I could "feel love for." That's good writing.

There's a professor who knows how to see to it that her class makes.

I've read the 17 (so far) books of The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher seven times (so far).

So what’s the order?

Greetings from Ukraine ❤️ thanks for your interesting point of view

Sorry I'm so late I just usually am

I first read the Hobbit and LOTR when I was 12, and then read them every 2 years since then. I read them to my kids too. These books are part of my life.

this is interesting for children's rights

I think that the literary critics of the mid 20th century were pissed off because Tolkien burst the comfortable bubble of intellectual and cultural superiority they had built for themselves asserting a pseudo-scriptural canon of approved modern literature. Not only was he evoking earlier literary traditions which were in no sense inferior, but he was demonstrating a superior level of knowledge about writing in doing so. Their pride was offended, and so they never forgave him and the fantasy genre, and later all genre fiction and the comic book and graphic novel form and later still Manga and Anime, and continue to assert their worthlessness _ab ovo_ and overwhelmingly site unseen. Snobs gonna snob, especially in mid 20th century Oxford at the heart of the British Empire. But ultimately their pride is on ruins, as all the works of human vanity must eventually be. A new generation of art snobs is defacing and desecrating Tolkien and genre fiction right now, asserting a contemprary form of the "modern canon", in which "representation" and "diversity" and identity politics must take precedent over lore, faithfulness to original source material, plot, character, narrative logic and all other considerations, because ultimately fiction must not be fiction but only a documentary facsimile of present day suburban and establishment America and its twisted values, pretensions, anti-moralist moralism and anti-religious religious zeal.

What a wonderfully enriching lecture from one of the foremost scholars on Tolkien. My only complaint and point of disagreement is when Drout remarks that Tolkien is not literature but pop culture. I agree that he's a pop culture phenomenon but I think that hi work is nevertheless literature. In fact, Drout's entire presentation demonstrates ever more deeply that Tolkien is and should be studied as literature.

A great talk!

Solid lesson. It is from Carnegie Friend university, after all.

The true cost or the true benefit,who knows what's the true benefit or the true cost, individuals in the study or the experimenter ? How do we know that individuals shared their privacy information,for reasons other than cost/benefit reasons ? Or is he equating pecuniary benefits with all benefits? Is that the appropriate way of analysing individuals behavior ?

Incrível. (Amazing!)

Nice.

When you have the non elected billionaires of the UN claiming they own the science, you’ve got government legislating and manipulating everything in the name of that owned science

THATS MY TEACHER ISTG

Killer Barney: There can be only one!

One of his first lines "Lord of the Rings is pop culture not literature"... lost me there... Obviously a Quack.

yep

He wrote it like a professor lives his life. When students ask questions, the professor tells some of what they need to know, but if he told them all he knew, they would be his age by the end of the telling.

wonderful

If the French had won the French and Indian War, the plural of “vous” might be “vinz”.

First off...anyone who who is paid by a voting machine company abs cannot be trusted to give an honest assessment of the machines owned by the same company that is paying you, that is what is called a conflict of interest. you left out a few things in your presentation. first, you said that we don't have to rely on the count of voting machines because ballot images are preserved and can be audited...problem is there have been numerous audits that have proven ballot images can and have been corrupted. Also, many of the states refused to hand over the ballot image files or simply erased them or didn't even save them in the first place. in terms of certified systems, again audits have proved that the EMS stations are in fact connected to the internet and on computer systems that have not been hardened, and often using outdated software. another thing you didn't cover is the lack of proof of chain of custody for the "encryption keys" which again have been proven to be yet another vulnerable point of access. Also while its great the public can view a voting machine counting ballots correctly be4 the election it has been proven that there are hacks that can be turned on or off at certain times or on certain days so again, this process is meaningless. You also said the voting machines are secured and can't be tampered with because they have 24 hr security...well that has also proven to be a vulnerability since they don't keep cameras on the voting machines 24/7 and we have no way of proving that the security officers can be trusted to not let county officials, or voting machine venders in to access the machines. you mentioned the number of machines and their weight as a security feature, well again only a small number of precincts would need to be changed to effect the outcome of an election and whats stopping the people who put the machines there from putting the specific precinct machines they need erased or altered in the front row for easy access, You also said to prevent this all you'd need to do is look at the hash function of one machine, well auditors have found it to be nearly impossible to get these hash functions from the machines because the county simply delays the FOIA request or simply ignores them completely. and finally RLA's have been shown to not be successful in proving fraud since they can pick to count the ballots from precinct where they know there was no fraud..., just go back and look at some of philip Starks old reports before 2017 he does a great job explaining y they an effective means of proving an election is secure.

This is amazing! What a fantastic discovery. This suggests incredible possibilities for understanding the relationship between human emotions and thoughts, and eventually saving countless lives.

Is there ANY way to go wrong with the word "moonlight"?