I'm pretty excited about E:TW too, but honestly Europa Barbarorum 2 is holding more of my interest right now. I wish they still needed people of my particular area of expertise, but apparently they've got classical military history interested persons coming out of their ears and are looking more for skinners and modelers.
What, that movie from back in the seventies? I never saw it (and don't want to; if it's porn you want there's much better out there), but from what I hear it's ridiculously over the top even comparing it to the lurid Suetonius (whose history reads like People magazine for some of the emperors he didn't like). There's a nugget of truth in there about some of the stuff, I suppose; Tiberius was a dirty old man, but not as dirty as in the movie, and Caligula was batsh*t crazy near the end. But loads of stuff is basically wrong. If you want weird sex stuff with a semblance of accuracy, look at a life of Alexandros, or something (not the movie, it was lame).
I read the Silmarillion (and the other works collected with it; I remember a certain elf of whom a NESer is the namesake, for example
) and was mildly impressed by the depth of the whole thing, as well as basically all the descriptions of the First Age, which IMHO was the most interesting. (The other Ages seemed to me to mostly be long, drawn-out, boring affairs with brief, short, sharp moments of terror and destruction periodically.)
Nobody likes Pasternak?
You haven't read that and you call yourself a teenager?
Tsk tsk, Heller comes first, then you go existentialist, then you grow out of it.You haven't read that and you call yourself a teenager?
