Nobody was forcing Tolkien to write fiction at all, he could have lived on just teaching and scholarly work. But LOTR is much better for the languages. They were Tolkien's gateway to the cultural background of his stories.
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No one forced him?
He was recovering from World War I. He had to do something ...
World War I was very, very bad.
It so terrified that generation, that in order to get a handle on it early cinema had the good guys shot guns out of the bad guys hands. Because the Veterans of World War I were so messed up, with what they experienced that they needed escape.
Side note: This is why Phasers have a stun setting.
He was recovering from World War I. He had to do something ...
World War I was very, very bad.
It so terrified that generation, that in order to get a handle on it early cinema had the good guys shot guns out of the bad guys hands. Because the Veterans of World War I were so messed up, with what they experienced that they needed escape.
Side note: This is why Phasers have a stun setting.
No, not at all. Tolkien was a philologist. Tolkien's approach to writing the masterpiece followed the thesis that language does not exist apart from mythology [link]. You just don't have The Lord of the Rings without the languages.
O ' Brien becoming transporter chief.
(They didn't create that huge golden statue of him in that role in the distant future and call him perhaps the most important figure in Starfleet history for nothing, after all).
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A gazillion years ago, when the internet was but a infant, I used to modem into BBS. My favorite one was a BBS called NCC 1701 BBS. Anyone remember that? I was doing a search for that and this page popped up. I love it here.
A gazillion years ago, when the internet was but a infant, I used to modem into BBS. My favorite one was a BBS called NCC 1701 BBS. Anyone remember that? I was doing a search for that and this page popped up. I love it here.
I don't know about BBS, but the first website I registered with to post on the forum, FilmScoreMonthly.com, is still here! I joined there like 2003-ish. Over twenty years of wasting my life.
We know the Ferengi are capitalists, but has there ever been a 'socialist' Trek species? (Not talking about the Federation, which some say is an idealized socialist state (with none of its drawbacks), or the Borg, who could perhaps be considered the ultimate communists, but something not too far from how real world socialist states operated).
I don't think there has been an actually Socialist (in the sense of actual Socialist principles, not just an authoritarian regime that pretends to be) society.
I agree to that, so my in-universe rationalization would be that no socialist state survived till the interstellar stage.
But I myself was thinking in the direction of the Cardassians or Romulans, too.
They certainly have the police state aspect and they might have the centrally planned economy, too. But I don't think Cardassian or Romulan society has embraced the class struggle dogma and I do think they allow private property.
Socialism does not work, because people are not slaves.
That's because it's a fantasy and would not work in real life.
Economics has never been much of a story factor beyond the occasional throwaway line about money and that one episode of DS9 where Jake wanted to get his dad a baseball card (In the Cards).
But this is fiction. In all these years, one would think someone would write something similar.
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