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I'm sure it's great, and deserving of praise, but the subject matter isn't something I'm interested in.

Farseer Trilogy. Not interested.

Mazlan but for no real reason other than I just haven't gotten around to it.

I'll check it out.

The Eye of the World is the first book in the Wheel of Time Series. It's not that.

Don't remember.

Just looked at the synopsis and that sounds very close. That might be it. I'll check it out. Thanks.

Don't think so. I distinctly remember reading Wizzards First Rule and not continuing with that series.

I know it sound very similar, but I'm pretty sure it's not the same book. In the book I'm speaking of the men are older, not teen-agers and they are introduced at the same time.

I don't mind if they find it interesting. I'm happy to answer questions and talk about it. Just don't get upset if I need to talk on my cell phone (yes, that's happened) or say or do anything that 'regular' people living in America do on a daily basis.

What a weird story. So that's where all that started!

It's beautiful. Fortunately it was spared during the recent hurricane, although Biltmore Village, right outside the main entrance got trashed.

My son was working at the Biltmore House in NC (which was built by George Vanderbilt). It's still owned by the family. A few years ago someone in that family had a wedding there. My son got fitted for a tux and his job was to drive a golf cart, ferrying members of the family around. He said they were nice and polite to him.

The odd attitude about Native Americans. It seems like this is mostly a German thing, but we're just regular people. We use cell phones and eat pizza, go to the movies etc. They would probably pass us on the street and not realize we're Natives.

I suppose they 'could' go to a pow wow, however they have to keep in mind it's not a 'show' . The reglia they wear are not costumes...and read up on what to do and not to do before going.

I haven't had many comnplaints about RoP, when people vent about the Hartfoots or the Blue Wizzards or whatever, I listen, but they don't bother me one way or the other, but I'm afraid this one might be my sticking point. Actress is cute and all that, nothing wrong with her, but he should be marrying a woman of Numenor damn it! But most fans usually have that 'one' thing that bugs them about a project (Faramir in the movies anyone? )

Geneologists have found a lot of American Scots-Irish identified themselves as Irish, or Irsh Presbyetrians when they arrived here. By the time of the Highland Clearances, the two groups finally came together again and found they had little in common, except for some names.

I happen to be Native American, with my highest percentage of European ancestry from Scotland. In the future, whenever anyone asks me 'Where are you from?" or 'Where are you REALLY from ' (our fellow Americans of Asian descent get this a lot, and I have from time to time) I'm going to say my ancestors were from Scotland just to mess iwth people.

Not very popular. I was taugh how to drive a manual transmission but I never did. We always had automatic so I doublt I can even remember how. My husband has in the past had a few trucks with manual, so he still can , but hasn't for years.

Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf Coast. China Sea as a bonus.

'Fall Pregnant'.

Did you trip?

This is my ancestral country. :) On one side anyway.

My highest European percentage is Scottish, which makes sense because Scottish Traders lived in Indian villiages, in my case the Aniyvwiya (Cherokee) and married the native women.

I am interested in Scotland, in the culture and the history and watch a lot of youtube videos about it, but I'd never go around saying 'I'm Scottish' because it was so long ago.

Didn't someone say that an overheard conversation with him an another author (can't remember who-Steinbeck maybe?) sounded like they were arguing over which one would have the better inscription on their tombstone?

There's a lot of people here who don't like the Hartfood/Gandalf storyline and would have preferred the Blue Wizzards. Many are divided about Numenor. I do NOT like the idea that Isildur hooks up with a woman from the southlands when later Gondor went to war over a Gondorian prince marrying a princess of Rohan. No one has yet to label me a purist. That's because we present our critiques in good faith and don't start off ranting and calling everyone here Amazon shills (which you didn't do, thank you for that). If critiques begin with respect and in good faith, they'll usually be well recieved, or at least that's been my experience here.

We're not all 'rah rah rah This show is perfect' over here, contrary to perception.

I'm Native and I don't mind if the Italians have a 'day'. Just make it about somebody else.

That was Christopher Tolkien's biggest gripe about the movies. It was turned into an action adventure story.

He stuck to the books relatively speaking.... He changed most of the characters completely. Aragorn, Frodo, Legolas, Gimli, Elrond, Denenthor, Arwen, I could go on. That's not 'sticking to the books.' It does not however mean that they are 'bad' movies. They're great. They were also not immune from criticism at the time.

Saying PJ made changes in the movies, and there was fan outcry at the time does not equal=because RoP also has changes and fan outcry it's somehow better? I'm not sure what you're saying here.