Kevin's Watch

A big part of the story of the Land is about the sanctity of nature and the importance of protecting it from harm.

Do you support such views in real life? After all if you loved the stories of the Land that should mean you support its views about the subject.

Or are you the opposite in fact and hate our nature because its not as loving and giving as the Land's nature?

shadowbinding shoe wrote:After all if you loved the stories of the Land that should mean you support its views about the subject.

How did you draw this conclusion? Does that mean everyone who loved Lord of the Rings should want to live in a hole and run around barefoot?

Yes, I love nature. I own land in the woods, and go camping quite bit (not as much as I'd like). But I'm definitely not a "greenie." I don't take something I love and turn it into an obsession or a political movement. I care more about human suffering than the "suffering" of rocks and trees--as the people in the Land do.

Do you realize how many trees Donaldson has killed with his story about the evil of killing trees? He has sold millions of books . . . all of them printed on the corpses of trees. The existence of Donaldson's book don't even support the views within them. And you buying them creates a market for tree killing. All for a few hours of entertainment.

Meh. The tree-killing is performed in self-renewed forests. It's forest-killing for conversion of lands for (short term) farming purposes, such as in Brazil that causes the real damage.

So are you a Reddy or of the Purple Order?

urm..what's purple again?

If I vote red, does that mean I'm a dirty filthy commie?

...or worse still, that I am casting my lot with an obese former (?) drug-user who's name implies haste?

(we're drifting out of TCTC territory and into IRL. Shun!)

Red is the opposite color to green. It's also related to fire. It's true though that the Commies weren't taking very good care of their environment.

I know, you know, at the rate they're going, their potato mines will be completly spent by the end of 2010?

Malik23 wrote:

shadowbinding shoe wrote:After all if you loved the stories of the Land that should mean you support its views about the subject.

How did you draw this conclusion? Does that mean everyone who loved Lord of the Rings should want to live in a hole and run around barefoot?

Yes, I love nature. I own land in the woods, and go camping quite bit (not as much as I'd like). But I'm definitely not a "greenie." I don't take something I love and turn it into an obsession or a political movement. I care more about human suffering than the "suffering" of rocks and trees--as the people in the Land do.

Do you realize how many trees Donaldson has killed with his story about the evil of killing trees? He has sold millions of books . . . all of them printed on the corpses of trees. The existence of Donaldson's book don't even support the views within them. And you buying them creates a market for tree killing. All for a few hours of entertainment.

Malik...actually caring for the suffering of people was the lords first concern..they didnt run around hugging trees while people were being butchered. The lords revered trees but they didnt place them above human or any of the lands inhabitants lives...you dont think they spoke to the tree..gave it a massage and then asked it nicely if it could drop a limb for them to make a new staff? heh..maybe they did.. it was never explained how the lords made their staffs.. I imagine it may have been something like the Pitchwives ability to meld stone.

Malik...dont let a Dem hollywood face poison a cause worthy of your involvement, just because the Green cause is infested with people who do the cause more harm than good with their extremism. (considering you own woodlands you should be willing to protect it if some developer wants to hack down and clear the area your cabin is in)

as for the killing of trees in SRDs name.....

The trees saw it as a good cause, their time was numbered and they knew it, they preferred to go down being part of an SRD novel than being part of the wall street journal or Nixons biography.

Savor Dam wrote:...or worse still, that I am casting my lot with an obese former (?) drug-user who's name implies haste?

(we're drifting out of TCTC territory and into IRL. Shun!)

LOL are you talking about Rush Limbaugh? lol

Not sure how to answer here; seems to be some negativity. I am thinking about the Second Chrons, the war that made them have to go into the Forest, and they had to ask the Forestal to let them pass. The Lords would have fought against the Forest to save their comrades; that doesn't make them red. Red and green don't make purple, so I am not sure what my answer would be here. I didn't do the poll for that reason.

Purple is a pretty color. I'm not sure what it means, but it sure is pretty...