Harry Potter

[The Beatles]

I did read the Silmarillion, I just meant by going West that they had no place remaining for them on Middle-Earth, because the West was an analogy for heaven. (Now I see Volkov wrote that too. ) Anyways, you're right about the losses sustained. But our favourite characters did mostly survive.

The very fact that he knew that he had to die and then willingly went to it is quite astounding and if you do not read it: you will not understand it.

I get that. That's a great piece. I just think it's ruined by his resurrection, because it cheapens his sacrifice.

Yes, more important characters died than in a fairy tale, so I half-retract my previous statement. I still think it's cheesy, but yes it's darker than a fairy tale.

[Nuclear Raunch]

Yeah, going to heaven is terrible.

You're kidding me? So when you die you fly through the air like Tinkerbell to some magical floating city to play a harp?

Or do you go to the Happy Hunting grounds in the sky where you do nothing but kill deer, elk, and buffaloe?

Or do you go to go become a slave in the Fields of Yalu and ride around on the sun?

Or do you come back to life as a cow and chew your cud all day?

Or do you go hang out in Abraham's bosom?

Or do you go redeem those wandering in darkness?

Or do you respawn on a magically transformed earth that is suddenly perfect?

Hmmm now that I'm thinking about it there's an awful lot of people throughout history who have all wanted to believe in an afterlife and all have different versions, I wonder if there's really 3 billion different types of an afterlife or if it's just basic human psychology to not want to accept mortality. Ahhh nevermind that's just crazy talk, what really happens is you go hang out in Odin's house for forever

[Nuclear Raunch]

Kraken, I'm fluent in vague, quasi-fluent in retard, and wrote the language for disturbed. I knew what you meant and I also knew by your spelling that it wasn't so much a typo as it was you had misheard the word and were trying to phonetically spell out what you thought you had heard. As far off as you were I didn't think you'd be able to google it very easily and had Devari not ruined it I would have been able to jerk you around with it indefinately.

[Devari]

Sorry, but we already know that Kraken is a dinosaur anyway.

[The Beatles]

Heh, I just caught on to the whole carnosaur subtopic. I guess I don't read topics attentively, do I?

I had just assumed that he coined "carnousaur" because of the analogy of "voracious reader" and the fact that it didn't actually make much sense, I passed over as typical.

[Gen. Volkov]

Yeah, that's what I assumed too, he was a carnosaur in that he consumed books. Made some sense to me.

[Nuclear Raunch]

Hey Kraken, will you do me a favor and add some things to your sig? I never supported the war in Iraq so I clearly hate America-which you covered-but you missed a few other things. I didn't think we should give up our freedoms over Al Qaeda so I obviously support terrorists. I also don't believe Iraq had anything to do with 9/11 so I'm unpatriotic. I thought we should have kept our focus on Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, and Bin Laden so I'm jealous of America's freedom, and I think it's insane to not save everyone money by giving them good quality universal healthcare for less than they are currently paying so I must be a communist as well. Oh, and since I believe in the 2nd ammendment I should also be considered to support gun crimes.

So in short I am an unpatriotic, terrorist supporting, Communist who supports gun crimes, hates America, and I'm jealous of America's freedom. Thanks for advertising so all my terrorists contacts can better locate me.

[The Beatles]

You forgot godless heathen.

[Kraken]

buffaloe?

indeed

anyways......

[Arthus]

Hey Kraken, will you do me a favor and add some things to your sig? I never supported the war in Iraq so I clearly hate America-which you covered-but you missed a few other things. I didn't think we should give up our freedoms over Al Qaeda so I obviously support terrorists. I also don't believe Iraq had anything to do with 9/11 so I'm unpatriotic. I thought we should have kept our focus on Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, and Bin Laden so I'm jealous of America's freedom, and I think it's insane to not save everyone money by giving them good quality universal healthcare for less than they are currently paying so I must be a communist as well. Oh, and since I believe in the 2nd ammendment I should also be considered to support gun crimes.

So in short I am an unpatriotic, terrorist supporting, Communist who supports gun crimes, hates America, and I'm jealous of America's freedom. Thanks for advertising so all my terrorists contacts can better locate me.

That was hilarious.

[Kraken]

yes! it most certinatly was.
however; it was sad that he decided to use this thread to throw his rant.
tsk tsk.
too bad he had nothing constructive to say about Harry Potter.

[The Beatles]

The free market favors Voldemort, as population reduction and slavery introduce wealth into the economy. Squibs are a drain on the honest wizarding taxpayer.

[Kraken]

ah, but the enslavement of so many...especially when you consider that Wizards and Witches are a vast minority, would have been impossible.

[Urran Voh]

Bah! To avoid reading the first 7 pages of this thread, I'd like to put in my $0.02. To me the last book was the saddest and most thrilling of the series...Sure JK could do without killing off some of my favorite characters, but hey she's got to keep us on edge somehow. There was also that most un-expected ending where one certain character wasn't so bad after all (don't know how much is revealed in here so far, so I won't spoil it for anyone). Will possibly write more later (once I get through the novel of this thread).

[Devari]

There was also that most un-expected ending where one certain character wasn't so bad after all (don't know how much is revealed in here so far, so I won't spoil it for anyone).

I think we already discussed this, and how it wasn't unexpected for some people.