Or to look at it another way — they appear to be offering a selection of the most highly-populated areas that are also low-lying and coastal, trying to bring home how many people could be affected. It would be interesting to have this for the entire coastlines, but that's really not the point the article is trying to…

I guess my theory would be that in Christopher Tolkien's head, the action in LOTR is stately and majestic, or something, rather than what someone from the last 30 years (post Star Wars) thinks of as "action", which is I recall him being careful to say that what he objected to was that it was "made for 18-25 year olds"…

I thought we did have a quote from him, along the lines of he hates that the films are action-adventures made for sub-25 year olds, or something like that?

I've seen an animated GIF of him saying that line, and to be fair — he says it with a pretty big smile. So at least this time, he wasn't all that angry about it.

Yes, Paramus can go fuck itself and the horse it rode in on. And you know where else? PARSIPPANY. It may be fun to say out loud, but if you get off 287 there, you can never ever ever get back on going north, unless you drive way the hell and gone on stupid back roads up to Boonton or some shit, because SIGNAGE,…

Plus, Rivendell.

If "schwag" stood for "stuff we all get", then that would be nonsensical, since the only acronym you can form from the phrase is SWAG.

Sorry, but none of these beat the other year when they came out with the Kirk/Spock (formatting is deliberate) Amok Time ornament. Because nothing says "Christmas" like a Pon Farr death-match between friends! Complete with musical cues. And they didn't even have Santa hats.

Then I salute your preternaturally accommodating hair! Although, now that you mention that it's hip-long, two things occur to me. One — to get to hip length, I'd assume it's fairly strong hair (a lot of people's hair starts breaking before it will grow that long); and two, at hip length, I'd tend to assume it's that…

It's not just this show, though. It's nearly every show and movie featuring a female action hero. She's going to have long, flowing hair. She's never going to wear it in a ponytail or tie it up in any way. She's going to be crawling through the forest or whatever, constantly inviting it to get snagged and in her…

My first thought was, "but there's a reference to it in a Tom Petty song! when was that? that was only 1989!" ("Yer So Bad" got a fair bit of airplay.)

This, plus the Oliver Reed comparison below, REALLY makes me want to see this. (But, the Ben Franklin comparison would hold if Crowe's character is more of a womanizer — TR was always a bit prudish.)

(I think the actual lyric is "Star Trekkin' Across the Universe".)

Yeah, first thing that popped into my mind.

Well... one of the prevailing theories (which I find pretty convincing) is that Tom is the Vala Manwe. That would put him on a level with Melkor, who was the master of Sauron, not with Sauron himself. Sauron was a Maia, one level down from Vala — on the same level as Gandalf.

What I loved the most about the RAPTORS IN THE KITCHEN scene was that it did something really unexpected. I get what The Squid is saying above, the T-Rex sequence is very tense and scary... but it's also pretty much what you know you'd fear about dinosaurs once you knew there was a T-Rex amongst them. Up to the…

Takes a while to type all of that. ;-)

The actual span of time, 77 years, is indeed an eye-blink to the elves. However, it's not incorrect to say that between the time of The Hobbit and LOTR, the elves passed a tipping-point in their relationship with Middle Earth. There isn't any indication in TH that the elves are aware of their Age coming to an end...…

The point is, your definition of who "looks" Mongolian is too narrow, if we're talking about half-descendants of the historical Mongol Empire, and not about "people who live in Mongolia today".

No, but if as other posters are saying, the Mandarin in the comics is half Mongol, then the Mongols aren't "Chinese" either... although, some Chinese are, to some extent, Mongol. However, the Mongols also conquered parts of India — go look up "the Mughal Empire" (i.e. builders of the Taj Mahal, etc.). Direct…