In a section of Unfinished Tales called "The Quest of Erebor", Gimli asks Gandalf this very question. Here is the response he gets:
Gandalf did not answer at once. He stood up, and looked out of the window, west, seawards; and the sun was then setting, and a glow was in his face. He stood so a long while silent. But at last he turned to Gimli and said: 'I do not know the answer. For I have changed since those days, and I am no longer trammelled by the burden of Middle-earth as I was then. In those days I should have answered you with words like those I used to Frodo, only last year in the spring. Only last year! But such measures are meaningless. In that far distant time I said to a small and frightened Hobbit: Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker, and you therefore were meant to bear it. And I might have added: and I was meant to guide you both to those points.
'To do that I used in my waking mind only such means as were allowed to me, doing what lay to my hand according to such reasons as I had. But what I knew in my heart, or knew before I stepped on these grey shores: that is another matter. Olórin I was in the West that is forgotten, and only to those who are there shall I speak openly.'
Nah, the reference is to Cato the Elder. He was once asked if he minded the fact that there was no statue to him; he replied that he would rather have no statue and people asking "why not" than have a statue and people asking "why".
Orthanc and Cirith Ungol, according to Letter #143 to Rayner Unwin, 22 January 1954:
I am not at all happy about the title 'the Two Towers'. It must if there is any real reference in it to Vol II refer to Orthanc and the Tower of Cirith Ungol. But since there is so much made of the basic opposition of the Dark Tower and Minas Tirith, that seems very misleading. There is, of course, actually no real connecting link between Books III and IV, when cut off and presented separately as a volume.
The law of physics in question states that no information can be propagated faster than light. This does not conflict with space itself expanding superluminally. I'd suggest this Usenet FAQ, Is Faster-Than-Light Travel or Communication Possible? for a more detailed answer.
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Your link is borked; it should be this.
He is clearly the penultimate prescriptivist.
"Gorthaur" was simply the Sindarin equivalent of Quenya "Sauron". His original name was Mairon, meaning "the admirable".
And very dangerous to say in front of the Librarian of Unseen University...
In a section of Unfinished Tales called "The Quest of Erebor", Gimli asks Gandalf this very question. Here is the response he gets:
Nah, the reference is to Cato the Elder. He was once asked if he minded the fact that there was no statue to him; he replied that he would rather have no statue and people asking "why not" than have a statue and people asking "why".
So, this is the hill which Java chose to die on? <ducks and runs>
I had mod points which were supposed to expire on the 20th, but in fact didn't expire until today! There is obviously a bug somewhere.
And, of course, he postulates a way of extending the human lifespan to multiple centuries.
Mod parent up. Here is a discussion of the various definitions of "species"; also, it's worth clicking through to this list.
http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/51/hares-breath/
But in Soviet Russia, CCCP has problems with you.
Actually that sentence is in the active voice.
So now we can pronounce it, we ought to write a volcano chantey, the way some people did for Eyjafjallajökull.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World_problem
Then what about Tomonaga and Schwinger; were they also greater than Einstein?
Reminds me of the legendary meeting of Diogenes and Alexander.
The law of physics in question states that no information can be propagated faster than light. This does not conflict with space itself expanding superluminally. I'd suggest this Usenet FAQ, Is Faster-Than-Light Travel or Communication Possible? for a more detailed answer.
The final name is – Soylent News!
http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/05/31/1616210
Not necessarily.
It's how they spell "Lets" in Llamedos.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, according to TwainQuotes.com (scroll down to the bottom of the page).
Nitpick: that quote is probably not due to Twain at all (see bottom of linked page); consequently it is self-illustrating.
Also, it isn't "Mt. Gox". It's "Magic, the Gathering online exchange".