Tolkiens language does bear some resembelence to Sanskrit, the language of ancient India, which is ordered according to the sounds of spoken language..
Ya, the whole good and evil thing, no metion of god or gods, but the characters in the book are almost polarized into the good and the evil. The compassionate, the ones who work for others win out in the end, the evil ones loose since they often turn on their own kind (e.g. orcs). Although it would be difficult to find a Christ figure in the trilogy, his teachings of love and compassion are one of the main themes of the work.
There are now plans to explore lakes under Earth's antartic ice sheets (see article below). Its possible that similar lakes exist on Europa, caused by pressure from overlaying ice and/or from a geothermal heat source. Given the presecne of liquid water it is possible that some form of life would develop.
http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20011105201728dat a_trunc_sys.shtml
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OSX is running great for me. Have been using it as a web server for our office and it has been up for weeks.
Dave, wise up and get an Apple. New iLamps look George Jetsony but with OSX they will be far more relaible then any Wintel machine.
Tolkiens language does bear some resembelence to Sanskrit, the language of ancient India, which is ordered according to the sounds of spoken language..
Ya, the whole good and evil thing, no metion of god or gods, but the characters in the book are almost polarized into the good and the evil. The compassionate, the ones who work for others win out in the end, the evil ones loose since they often turn on their own kind (e.g. orcs). Although it would be difficult to find a Christ figure in the trilogy, his teachings of love and compassion are one of the main themes of the work.
Wow, a whole planet covered by sand and rocks. I could almost see a band of fremen walking across the canyon or a sandworm beginning to surface.
There are now plans to explore lakes under Earth's antartic ice sheets (see article below). Its possible that similar lakes exist on Europa, caused by pressure from overlaying ice and/or from a geothermal heat source. Given the presecne of liquid water it is possible that some form of life would develop. http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20011105201728dat a_trunc_sys.shtml
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