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You Got The Red Armor: New Nanotech Armor 5x Stronger Than SteelInstalanche me! It's war! It's nanotech! It's the singularity of body amor! An Israeli firm has developed armor based on nanotechnology. They hope to begin selling the armor by 2009.
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CommentsNo hat tip? ATTENTION MUST BE PAID. Posted by: Allah on January 9, 2006 04:31 PM
I AM IRON MAN! Posted by: Ozzy Ozbourne on January 9, 2006 04:32 PM
Hey, Ace actually read Drudge all by himself for once Allah. Gotta cut the guy a little bit of slack. Posted by: Enas Yorl on January 9, 2006 04:36 PM
Argh. I sent that to Ace just before it went up on Drudge. All right, I'll stand down on this one. This reminds me of the scene in Three Amigos where the German challenges Martin Short to a duel. "No one can be as fast as you appear to be." "I am that fast!" I am that fast. Posted by: Allah on January 9, 2006 04:38 PM
"Holy crap Bill! Did that hit you? Your body armor's fine. Oh, all that's left of you is Jello. Dang." Posted by: harkyman on January 9, 2006 04:44 PM
These Buckyballs? Posted by: Iblis on January 9, 2006 04:44 PM
Ace: http://hotzone.yahoo.com/b/hotzone/blogs2182 My favorite Iranian chant after a religious ceremony: "At the end of the political speech there is the obligatory chant, "Death to America." Microphones and cameras are always poised for the moment. Today the chant is fairly lackluster. "It doesn't have much meaning anymore," one insider tells me." The hell is doesn't! Posted by: Greg on January 9, 2006 04:47 PM
Just to put this into some military perspective, 1.5km/s is almost twice the muzzle velocity of the M82 .50 rifle (0.854km/s). Posted by: MMDeuce on January 9, 2006 05:01 PM
This story isn't really *real* until MythBusters confirms it. Posted by: BumperStickerist on January 9, 2006 05:25 PM
I thought you got best conservative blog? How come I have to go to yesterday's posts before I get anything to do with the Abramoff, Delay or NSA scandals? Oh, wait one, those aren't going so well for your team, so not posting about them is going to make people forget about them? Pull your head out of the sand and start encouraging your readers to keep informed, keep active and tell thier representatives to prosecute lawbreakers (of EITHER party) and maybe people will have some faith in the conservative cause. Otherwise, ur an apologist for the culture of corruption. Posted by: Larry the Urbanite on January 9, 2006 05:28 PM
You know, we workshopped "Death to America" and. . .SNOOZERS! Posted by: tachyonshuggy on January 9, 2006 05:29 PM
ace: Instalanche me! allah: No hat tip? If I knew where either of you lived, I'd probably drive over to your houses right now and slap the both of you, on principle. Posted by: sandy burger on January 9, 2006 05:30 PM
Thanks for your editorial input, Larry the Urbanite! I don't know how Ace ever got to be as popular a blogger as he has become without kowtowing to your particular demands. Glad to know you are assuming content patrol duties now, though. Cause that means the sky is the fucking limit! Although, I do suspect that the time you spend making editorial decisions will take you away from your day job at NASA, in which you are this close to finally discovering how to split atoms with the crazy delicious power of your mind! Posted by: Jack M. on January 9, 2006 05:40 PM
Larry's got a point. I think. Posted by: Bravo Romeo Delta on January 9, 2006 05:41 PM
How come I have to go to yesterday's posts before I get anything to do with the Abramoff, Delay or NSA scandals? Funny, I'd have thought that your post would have contained some news, something relevant and important that had happened between yesterday and today which would justify Ace putting up a new post. But I don't see it. If I didn't know better, I might think that you're an apologist for the culture of corruption. Why do you hate the little guy, Larry?! (I'm probably gonna regret posting this when Larry the Urbanite posts a link dump of everything he knows about those stories, completely missing the point.) Posted by: sandy burger on January 9, 2006 05:42 PM
Larry's got a point. On his head. Posted by: holdfast on January 9, 2006 05:44 PM
If they could have made condoms out of this stuff, Dick Cheney might never have had a lesbian child.
Posted by: Biff Boff on January 9, 2006 05:51 PM
I dunno..I think Larry the Urbanite (if that is his real name) needs to become acquainted with either Thomas Jefferson's quotes on the subjects he likes, or that he should be introduced for a session with Timmy in the Well to determine what's really behind his bile. Either course of action would be interesting. Posted by: Jack M. on January 9, 2006 05:53 PM
larry maybe you should be worrying about those 40 dem senators who were on the abramoff take because we kkkknnnnooooooowwwww how sincere you are about getting to the bottm of this pile. throw them all out and most like we'll end up with 60-40 repub majority. smirk Posted by: ron on January 9, 2006 05:54 PM
If they could have made condoms out of this stuff, Dick Cheney might never have had a lesbian child. That's a mighty big if there Biff... I'm sure this stuff is outstanding against small arms fire, but Cheney's cock? Surely you jest... Posted by: Hector on January 9, 2006 05:55 PM
Well, Larry it’s because no indictments have been handed down in the Abramoff thing, and anything blogged about it is useless speculation. Besides, Abramoff was pretty liberal (heh) in spreading the money around, so it’s likely the Dems will get smacked by this one too. The case against Delay is flimsy as hell, and until he gets his day in court everything is more useless speculation. AND the biggest thing about the NSA “scandals” is how bad the CIA is about leaking highly classified National Security stuff. Finally, being a conservative isn’t ALL about politics, politics, politics, politics, politics, politics, politics, politics, politics, politics, politics, politics, politics, politics. Posted by: Enas Yorl on January 9, 2006 05:56 PM
I'm jest sayin'. And don't call me surely. Posted by: Biff Boff on January 9, 2006 06:00 PM
You know, it just shows how in the bubble Bush really is. In his headlong, frenzied rush to war, he failed to consider that if he waited a short 6 years, our poor, defenseless, redneck, babykilling, no-other-option-in-life soldiers could have had this armor. Spin that, bitches. Larry does have a point, why is this thread not devoted to what he wants it to be about? Posted by: joeindc44 on January 9, 2006 06:22 PM
OK, Larry the Orkanite, here is some actual "news" relating to your "NSA scandals", domestic surveillance, etc. Reported by MSNBC no less! Now there's quality for ya. "Homeland Security opening private mail"!!!http://www.ms*nbc.msn.com/id/10740935/ I suppose the headline "DHS Carefully Follows Its Own Non-Secret Publicly-Posted Rules Which Have Been In Existence Longer Than DHS or the Patriot Act: Opens Foreign Letter, Finds Nothing, Passes Letter on to Recipient with Notification of Opening" wouldn't grab the attention, ya know? Damn you Larry the Orkanite for forcing me to post according to your whims! Damn You! (remove the * from the url of course) Posted by: Mark on January 9, 2006 06:46 PM
Back to ace's point, though: this armor is great and all, but where the heck are we gonna get the nanosoldiers small enough to wear it? I mean, you gotta think these things through. Posted by: Mark on January 9, 2006 06:53 PM
Hmmm, target rich environment. Let's see: My point was, this is supposed to be the BEST conservative blog, and the top three posts are about armor, the Dow going over 11000 (inevitable, so not really news), and Chris Klien? Poor stuff, with major investigations going on all about DC. I'm jest saying (and that's what comment threads are fer, right?) And, silence implies consent (to those being investigated) Jack M. : It's called "feedback" and it's what blogs are all about. You are quite poetic in your frothy rage, tho' BRD: Thanx. Prolly the only support I'll ever get Sandy B: Oh, u know it all already I'm sure, down to the last GOP talking point. but See below. Ron: U ignorant, talking point slut. U know that them recieving legal money is not the issue here (as much as the GOP slander machine would like the masses to believe it is). Combine the words Democratic, illegal and abramoff in a sentence, and u'll have a story I haven't seen yet. Jack M. again: What's that Lassie? Timmie's in the Well and the Republicans are gonna lose a majority in the House or Senate in 2006 AND the WH in 2008? I'd believe the talking dog, Mark. Enas: Every other traditional news outlet and blogger in the country is writing (ok, speculating, but still) about the scandals. Why not here, is what I'm saying. It's suspicious and makes me respect the blogger less.
Posted by: Larry the Urbanite on January 9, 2006 06:58 PM
Boy, I needed that just the other day when five locomotives landed on my breasts. Posted by: rd on January 9, 2006 07:07 PM
Mark: Well, that has nothing to do with any of the scandals, except as background filler as to what is legal, like when Carter and Clinton didn't break the law.
It's just straight forward reporting, but at least it's political. Posted by: Larry the Urbanite on January 9, 2006 07:08 PM
But . . . by posting on a variety of topics, aren't we kept more informed than we would be if Ace posted on just three stories over and over? Posted by: Lord Floppington on January 9, 2006 07:12 PM
Is this asshats-drink-free week here at AoSHQ? I'm thinking I missed the memo because a new one shows up everyday. Somebody get Larry his cocktail! Posted by: BrewFan on January 9, 2006 07:19 PM
Larry, I have a great idea. Why don't you type up the posts and links you'd like to see here, and pass them on to me via email, and I'll promptly put each of them up? Wait, there might be some delay before your email and the actual posting... okay, how about this: to cut down on the time it takes to get your scary-important musings on the internet, why don't you go over to Blogger.com and start your own blog, and then I'll read that every fifteen minutes, and then re-copy your posts on to my blog. That way, your posts will already be up for some period of time before I get around to reposting them here. Actually, I just had an even better idea! It goes like this: you start your own blog, I never read it, not even once, and I never hear from you again! Sound good? Let's give it a shot! Thanks for all the attention, now get out of my face already. Posted by: ace on January 9, 2006 07:20 PM
Urban Larry, Ace's site sucks. He is teh real terrorist. Not only does routinely violate the sacred copyrights of serious bloggers, he uses the blog to creat a false consciousness for mind-numbed robots, where so-called conservatives are distracted from real issues like Bush's pending impeachment for listening in on American citizens who were innocently speaking to Al Qaeda's non-profit Afghanistan public school systems.He certainly never dares speak of Delay's impending death sentence. As for this Abramoff, Ace dares not speak his name. Really, Ace knows he can't speak on the issues, so he peppers this copyright violating "blog" solely with entertaining trinkets. All in all, I prefer the conservative New York Times, where true conservatives get their talking points. They don't placate. Posted by: joeindc44 on January 9, 2006 07:21 PM
Ha Ha. The Lefty trolls are all wound up because nobody cares about their latest moment of outrage. The MSM and the DNC have finally been compromised in the public's eye. They have cried wolf too many times to keep their credibility. What's the flavor of the week, Bill? Same old shit, Phyllis. More whining and investigations of alleged wrong-doings of the Republicans from the Democrats. Oh, okay then, Bill, let's watch Wheel of Fortune. Posted by: Bart on January 9, 2006 07:26 PM
No, this site really does suck. Time, anyway. I keep looking for ALL the news here, and I can't find it. It's full of stuff Ace wants to comment on only. What the fuck is up with that? Where do I get comprehensive news commentary? Posted by: rd on January 9, 2006 07:27 PM
Hit a nerve Ace? I'm jest saying your blog is ppretty sucky, far as political content goes. The competition must be pretty poor if you won for best conservative blog. Don't like my opinion? Ban me, fascist. They let all kind of wingnuts at the liberal sites, because liberals think a good discussion is productive, not threatening. Which, by the way, is what your reply to me was. You sound very angry, Ace. Let me guess, not enough hugs from Mommy and Dad was very strict? Posted by: larry the Urbanite on January 9, 2006 07:28 PM
He said "fascist." Posted by: rd on January 9, 2006 07:31 PM
He said "fascist." Yeah - I need a shower now. You guys know nothing gets me off like someone resorting to the old standby. Remember the dude who (1) called me fascist (2) because I'm Jewish stated that when I was circumsized my testicles were chopped off. That guy was the best. Cliched political insults and Jew baiting - two classics that go great together. Posted by: steve_in_hb on January 9, 2006 07:39 PM
Don't like my opinion? Ban me, fascist. They let all kind of wingnuts at the liberal sites, because liberals think a good discussion is productive, not threatening. Which, by the way, is what your reply to me was. I threatened you? Butch up, sissy. You sound very angry, Ace. Yes, indeed, I'm the angry one here. Let me guess, not enough hugs from Mommy and Dad was very strict? They did their best. They was just circus folk, after all. I'd ban you, but that would be placating, and I don't placate. Sometimes you just have to tell her "no." I mean, if it's a two-week spark-off, fuck it, have a blast. But otherwise, you just have to be firm. Posted by: ace on January 9, 2006 07:40 PM
"Let me guess, not enough hugs from Mommy and Dad was very strict?" Now I get it--Larry=Bart!
Posted by: Lipstick on January 9, 2006 07:46 PM
Steve and RD Oh, you act like u've never heard the word fascist before. It's a political label just like "commie", "moonbat", and "just to the left of Marx". Get over urself.' (Now, if I had said "nazi", u culd get indignant. And Goodwin's law would apply.) Posted by: larry the Urbanite on January 9, 2006 07:48 PM
larry - It is exactly like commie. I've made the point before that people coming here throwing out fascist relentlessly is just as stupid as right wingers who throw commie at everybody they disagree with. Besides the fact that it indicates the user is not really looking for respectful discussion, it's just tired and uninspired. Predictability is a drag. Posted by: steve_in_hb on January 9, 2006 08:03 PM
Who let Larry the Suckweasel Commie in? Posted by: Sue Dohnim on January 9, 2006 08:07 PM
Larry_U, OK, you're right. The blog sucks. Really, it does. All good things are inevitable. All bad things are Bush's fault and that of his NeoConMcHaliburtonJewNaziBloodforOil Cabal. OK, you made your point. We all agree, you're smart. You're Urbane. You're better. There, I said it. ... Do you feel better? ... Now, if you don't mind, we were having a fine time without you. Run along. K? Posted by: MTT on January 9, 2006 08:08 PM
And furthermore... COMMIE. Posted by: Sue Dohnim on January 9, 2006 08:08 PM
You'd think even the libs could understand the difference between "Best Conservative Blog" and "Best Conservative News Blog." Posted by: geoff on January 9, 2006 08:16 PM
Ban me, fascist are you kidding? you're the primo entertainment Posted by: Dave in Texas on January 9, 2006 08:16 PM
Did I say COMMIE? I really meant to say FUCKING TROTSKYITE PIECE OF KARL MARX WORHIPPING SHIT. Posted by: Sue Dohnim on January 9, 2006 08:21 PM
Now you meanies done it. Larry the Sophisticate tries to raise a valid point, about how come a thread devoted to a new type of body armor doesn't deal with Delay, Abramoff or the NSA "scandal." Ace, like many fascists, responded by brutally (and unilaterally) suggesting that if Larry of the City doesn't like it, he can piss on a tree. As Thomas Jefferson said, "beware the blogger who beats the drum of 'suck it, wuss'." This attempt to disenfranchise the Larold led to the only rational response, Larry curled up in a fetal ball and started calling us you home-schooled morons names. Larry raises a valid point for all of us who try to make bloggers care about what Larry cares about. That's why Larry hasn't bothered to click on some of my links or reading posts that actually discussed these issues. BTW, if you want a real blog, this guy, Tubino, is really with it. He usually links to the kind of insiteful blogs that Ace wishes he had. Check it out, he grew into himself fairly late. The first girl he was ever with, you know, kissing and getting blow jobs, he was a freshman in high school and she was a senior. And she was hot too, by the way. Posted by: joeindc44 on January 9, 2006 08:25 PM
Wait! Wait! I missed a good troll-beating! Is it too late to take my shots at Larry The Amazing Marxist Fuckwit, or did he run off crying already? Posted by: Monty on January 9, 2006 08:26 PM
Ban me, fascist. I'm in a helpful mood so, if you want to get banned, go here and tell the host he's wrong. Don't worry if you're not sure what he's wrong about, it doesn't really matter. Posted by: BrewFan on January 9, 2006 08:26 PM
My favorite part is how wordy he is, but he's still too stupid to spell out "your" or "you're" instead of "ur". Which is it, Larry? Are you too stupid to know the difference between the two, or are you too stupid to realize that you can save a lot more time by SHUTTING THE HELL UP instead of saving two or three keystrokes with "ur"? Posted by: Sortelli on January 9, 2006 08:31 PM
Brew, don't be silly. There's nothing to comment on over there. Posted by: Sortelli on January 9, 2006 08:32 PM
"...TROTSKYITE..." Sue - I hope you really are a woman, because I just fell in love. If you work "proleteriat" in to a sentence, I'll have to take another shower. Posted by: steve_in_hb on January 9, 2006 08:32 PM
steve_in_hb: You think Sue gives great Marxist dialogue so far? Wait until she unloads something like "running dog Capitalist opressors" or "Bourgeois neo-colonialist lackeys of Zionist paymasters". It's bliss. Sue doesn't placate. She kicks Karl Marx's goldbricking ass. Posted by: Monty on January 9, 2006 08:40 PM
Larry the Urbanite: No, I don't. I don't pretend to. I'm totally out of it. I'm waking up from a two-week Unicum bender, so I haven't read the latest GOP memo. And the last VRWC check from my neocon puppet masters bounced, so I'm in a pissed off mood. If the democrats can get some real dirt on the GOP, more power to 'em. Screw the GOP. Every month or two for the last five years, there has been some outrageous scandal which has reduced democrats to frothing at the mouth or literally weeping in congress. Some of them turn out to be real problems (always quite different from the initial hyperventilating accusations), most turn out to be absolute nonsense. Turn down the volume, tone down the beating of breasts and gnashing of teeth, and maybe I'll pay closer attention. I know republicans are capable of bad things, and I want a "loyal opposition". You complained that Ace hasn't posted about something which you said he posted on just yesterday. I gave that complaint the respect it deserves. So wake me up when anybody gets convicted. Until then, quit your screeching. My head is throbbing. Posted by: sandy burger on January 9, 2006 09:15 PM
joeindc44, LOL. Posted by: MTT on January 9, 2006 09:26 PM
Will they start calling SUPERMAN the MAN OF NANOTECH 5 now? Posted by: spurwing plover on January 9, 2006 09:43 PM
Larry, I would strongly encourage you to get your own blog. Philosophically, I would prefer to gut you from stem to stern (on an argumentative basis) but as that may not be possible, let us please engage head-on. Best, BRD Posted by: Bravo Romeo Delta on January 10, 2006 01:42 AM
How soon before Good Morning America starts blaming the Bush Administration for not having this body armor before going into Iraq? Posted by: SGT Jeff (IRR) on January 10, 2006 12:43 PM
A new moniker! Posted by: Inorganic Fullereness on January 12, 2006 02:54 PM
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I wouldn't click on it, it's not interesting, it's just stupid clickslop. I just want to share my annoyance with you.
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This is super-obscure and I only barely remember it. Given that, I'll give you the hint that it's by the Red Rocker. And I guess you think you've got it made Oh, but then, you never were afraid Of anything that you've left behind Oh, but it's alright with me now 'Cause I'll get back up somehow And with a little luck, yes, I'm bound to win Now twenty people will tell me it's not obscure, it was huge in their hometown and played at their prom. That's how it usually goes. When I linked Donnie Iris's "Love is Like a Rock," everyone said they knew that one and that his other song (which I didn't know at all) Ah Leah! was huge in their area.
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thanks to stevey You know we "joke" about the GOPe just "conserving" leftist things? I couldn't hate this queen of the cuck-chair more if it paid seven figures and came with a corner office.
In more marketing for Project Hail Mary, scientists say they've found the biosigns indicating life growing on an alien planet. It's not proof, just signatures of chemicals that are produced by biological metabolism, and it could be nothing, but scientists think it's a strong sign that this planet is inhabited by something.
In a paper published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, a team of scientists announced the detection of dimethyl sulfide (along with a similar detection of dimethyl disulfide) in the atmosphere of an exoplanet called K2-18b. This is actually the second detection of dimethyl sulfide made on this planet, following a tentative detection in 2023. He means they tried to prove the signal was caused by things other than dimethyl sulfide but they could not.
Artemis moon shot a go, scheduled for 6:24 Eastern time tonight
Great marketing arranged by Amazon to promote Project Hail Mary. Okay not really but it does work out that way.
What? Skeleton of the most famous Musketeer, D'Artagnan, possibly discovered in Dutch church closet.
Dumas picked four names of real musketeers out of a history book, D'Artagnan, Athos, Aramis, and Porthos. So there was an actual D'Artagnan, though he made most of the story up. (Or, you know, all of it.)* Charles de Batz de Castelmore, known as d'Artagnan, the famous musketeer of Kings Louis XIII and Louis XIV, spent his life in the service of the French crown. A lot of Dumas's stories are based on bits of real history. The plot of the >Three Musketeers, about trying to recover lost diamonds from the queen's necklace, was cribbed from the then-almost-contemporaneous Affair of the Queen's Necklace. And the Man in the Iron Mask is based on real accounts of a prisoner forced to wear a mask (though I think it was a velvet mask). * Oh, I should mention, Dumas says all this, about finding the names in an old book, in the prologue to his novel. But authors lie a lot. They frequently present fictions as based on historic fact. The twist is, he was actually telling the truth here. At least about these four musketeers having actually existed and served under Louis XIV. Fun fact: You know the beginning of A Fistful of Dollars where the local gunslingers make fun of Clint Eastwood's donkey and Eastwood demands they apologize to the donkey? That's lifted from The Three Musketeers. Rochefort mocks D'Artagnan's old, brokedown farm horse and D'Artagnan is incensed.
A commenter asked which should be read first, The Hobbit of LOTR?
Easy, no question -- read The Hobbit first. It's actually the start of the story and comes first chronologically. It sets up some major characters and major pieces in play in LOTR. Also, the Hobbit is Beginner-Friendly, which LOTR isn't. The Hobbit really is a delightful book, and a fast read. It's chatty, it's casual, it's exciting, and it's funny. In that dry cheeky British humor way. I love that the narrator is constantly making little asides and commentary, like he's just sitting next to you telling you this story as it occurs to him. LOTR is a very long story. Fifteen hundred pages or so. The Hobbit is relatively short and very punchy and easy to read. If you don't like The Hobbit, you can skip out on LOTR. If you do like it, you'll be primed to read LOTR. Oh, I should say: The Hobbit is written as if it's for children, but one of those smart children's stories that are also for adults. Don't worry, there's also real fighting and violence and horror in it, too. LOTR is written for adults. (It's said that Tolkien wrote both for his children, but LOTR was written 17 years later, when his children were adults.) Some might not like The Hobbit due to its sometimes frivolous tone. Me, I love it. I find it constantly amusing. Both are really good but there is a starkly different tone to both. LOTR is epic, grand, and serious, about a world war, The Hobbit is light and breezy, and about a heist. Though a heist that culminates in a war for the spoils.
The Hobbit Challenge: Read two more chapters. I didn't have much time. Bilbo got the ring.
I noticed a continuity problem. Maybe. Now, as of the time of The Hobbit, it was unknown that this magic ring was in fact a Ring of Power, and it was doubly unknown that it was the Ring of Power, the Master Ring that controlled the others. But the narrator -- who we will learn in LOTR was none of than Bilbo himself, who wrote the book as "There and Back Again" -- says this about Gollum's ring: "But who knows how Gollum had come by that present [the Ring], ages ago in the old days when such rings were still at large in the world? Perhaps even the Master who ruled them could not have said." In another passage, the ring is identified as a "ring of power." I don't know, I always thought there was a distinction between mere magic rings and the Rings of Power created by Sauron. But this suggests that Bilbo knew this was a ring of power created by Sauron. Now I don't remember when Bilbo wrote the Hobbit. In the movie, he shows Frodo the book in Rivendell, and I guess he wrote it after he left the Shire. I guess he might have added in the part about the ring being a ring of power created by "the Master" after Gandalf appraised him of his research into the ring. I never noticed this before. I know Tolkien re-wrote this chapter while he was writing LOTR to make the ring important from the start. And also to make Gollum more sinister and evil, and also to remove the part where Gollum actually offers Bilbo the ring as a "present" -- Bilbo had already found it on his own, but Gollum was wiling to give it away, which obviously is not something the rewritten Gollum would ever do. But I had no memory of the ring being suggested to be The Ring so early in the tale.
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