It seems to be going the other way in Nigeria... there you need to hope that the olds will outlive the current youths and somehow manage to get hold of the next generation before their parents/older siblings corrupt them.

Is this something she says in the book? Read it ages ago and I don't remember.

Please can we spare a few lines for Daenarys Stormborn, Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, Khaleesi of the Great Sea, Breaker of Chains, Mother of Dragons, wearer of the Impeccable White Dress and HBIC?! I thought this was... you know... a feminist website?

By all means, cast non-white actors as part of your main cast... Then treat them like the rest of your main cast. Useless Matt gets to have Melinda Clarke as his mom, we see his home, we know he is a quarterback and works in the bar... Bonnie Bennett didn't get a house or a dad until Season 4. Her mother was a plot…

Maggie Q also voices Wonder Woman in the Animated series. #fangasm

Exactly. See the backlash he got for making Arwen more visible in FOTR.

I forgot to add: the inter-racial romance was in Narnia, or rather in a Narnia book "Horse and His boy" the story of the lost Archenland prince and the Calormen princess that run away to Archenland together. They end up getting married and their son is the greatest King of Archenland.

Telmar really wasn't a dark skinned country: Caspian and his son Rillian (a.k.a. Hamlet) was as blonde as they come. (At least according to Phillipa Boylen's illustrations).

There were good Calormen and lots of evil White people (the White Witch being one, and just about every Telmarine born before Caspian). Lewis also wrote a happily-ever-after inter-racial romance in the 50s: something that a lot of Big Name writers have troubles getting right in the 21st century.

What need do a Christian apologist from Belfast [....] have for lady hobbits in [his] stories?

I feel like sideeffectofteamocil: the big appeal of Twilight is that it is a non-Mills&Boon, non-Halequin-Romance, non-Fabio-on-the-cover-boddice rippper book about romance. With a little action thrown in for variety. Unlike most genre books that are about action/thriller/mystery with a little romance thrown in for…

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lololol! I just said more or less the same thing in my comment. :)

Well considering that his Star Trek movie ripped off... sorry, paid homage, to the Star Wars films a lot... It's no wonder Abrams declined. He's already directing a Star Wars movie.

1, When does he do so?

Perhaps Alice sees Bella's future because it is intertwined with the futures of those that she can see? Bella was not immune to Alice's foresight when she was a human and that didn't change when she became a vampire. Who are the other people taking a more active role in solving her problems? The only person in the…

Found this recently and I remembered our conversation.

Your idea is brilliant. I wish one day you'll have an opportunity to make it a reality.

Nor I have heard much criticism about the Vampire Diaries and the romance between the two brothers and a girl who looks exactly like their former girlfriend, a vampire who sired them. Cue all the creepy Oedipal narratives, right? *birds chirping* None. Also you would think the fact that Damon Salvatore is a serial…