Under US law, and in most (but not all) circumstances. But Tom doesn't live in the US.
It was clearly self-deprecating humor when he said that, and he's clearly aware of his chronological age. But even if he's not physically aged, that doesn't mean he feels young, even before he gave up the Ring.
'I am old, Gandalf. I don’t look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed!’ he snorted. ‘Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can’t be right. I need a change, or something.'
But even if you're right and he was effectively only 67, that still leaves us with the problem of why Gollum's physical age isn't well over 100.
Bilbo was a stolid 50-year-old when he came by the Ring. Smeagol was almost certainly much younger than that when he murdered Deagol. That would put him right around 100, true, but see u/removed_bymoderator's reply.
There's nothing at all to indicate any longer passage of time, and no one other than Bilbo has aged. We'd expect Frodo not to, but Sam, Merry, and Pippin don't either.
The timing of when he wrote what later became Ainulindale in nearly the same terms tells us the music of the 50s and 60s cannot have been on his mind, but it almost might as well have been.
This is one reason I despise those films. So often, when people read the books afterward, they're inoculated by film imagery and tend to picture the book in the film's terms rather than by what's on the page.
I'm not saying that's your fault, it's just a normal human tendency to refer back to what we think we already know. And you didn't say you had seen the films, but I don't know where else anyone would get "definitely" from.
When Frodo meets Bilbo in Rivendell after 17 years, Bilbo has not aged any more than you would expect in that time. Nothing is actually said at all about his appearance, but he is alert and his conversation is lively. It seems rather that he had simply resumed normal aging. That would put him at around 67. When the film pictured him as extremely aged at that point, it was simply wrong.
It's only after the return to Rivendell after the Rings destruction that Bilbo seems to have aged greatly. As Arwen explained when Frodo expressed disappointment over Bilbo's absence at her wedding to Aragorn:
‘Do you wonder at that, Ring-bearer?’ said Arwen. ‘For you know the power of that thing which is now destroyed; and all that was done by that power is now passing away. But your kinsman possessed this thing longer than you. He is ancient in years now, according to his kind; and he awaits you, for he will not again make any long journey save one.’
Smeagol was probably younger than his 30s when he found the Ring. We're actually not told his age at the time, but he always struck me as maybe in his late teens.
You mean, do you need to ask someone's permission before using their intellectual property for yourself?
That would be a yes.
Shit like this is why I have a dashcam. It wouldn't bring back your tC, but at least you wouldn't also have to deal with the insurance company thinking it was your fault.
Its here for anyone interested. The appraiser pointed to the hole jewel for the center wheel as being a diamond. I don't know that he meant to say the rest of the jewels were also diamond.
There really isn't any advantage to using diamond instead of the usual ruby. Watch jewels function as low friction bearings, and all that's really necessary for them is that they be harder than the steel pivots that turn inside them. (He also called it an "end stone", which isn't really a thing.) Diamond - which had to be natural rather than synthetic, and is much harder to work with than ruby - would be a needless extravagance, not required by railroad regulations, on what was intended to be an extremely practical instrument.
I also wonder how the appraiser could tell. It's not as if he disassembled the watch so as to test it. Maybe he was judging from the color, but that's not a reliable guide. Nowadays synthetic rubies used in watches are a uniform deep red, but that wasn't always true in the old days. Sometimes they were barely colored at all.
I could be very wrong, but I suspect the appraiser erred when he said that.
Unless I'm looking at the wrong database entry - the serial number is a little difficult to read - or misunderstanding the specs, this is a railroad grade watch and therefore the highest quality and most accurate movement typically available at the time. Did your great-grandfather ever work for the railroad? He would have needed such a watch for his job if he did. Otherwise, he must have felt that keeping accurate time was extremely important.
Since they're entirely unlike his orcs, having in common almost nothing but the name, I'm not sure he'd care.
Okay, but one guy can actually create the whole website on his own. That's kind of hard for a steel plant.
That's true, but I think the basic structure there is the six books rather than the three volumes. Up until the end of Book 2 it's a single threaded narrative seen mainly through the eyes of Frodo. In terms of pacing, Book 1 pretty much stands by itself I think.
Just my interpretation, of course.
Which happens to be entirely correct.
I was directly addressing the claim in your previous post, which was wrong again. The house edge in blackjack presupposes that players do not keep track of what cards have come and what's left. If you do that, you are not playing according to the odds approved by the New Jersey Gaming Commission or any other gaming commission for that matter.
They can trespass you for it, just because they can ask you to leave for any reason they like, but they can't sue you for it.
In the case of Ivey, the house knowingly gave him the tools to gain an edge and they chose to look the other way, probably because of the massive bankroll he was going to be playing with. And no, it's not knowing exactly what cards the dealer had. Edge sorting isn't that precise.
The book reflects Catholic morals (at least, those they preach) and themes, not the Catholic Church as an institution. And honestly, I don't know how much of it would be noticeable if it weren't known that Tolkien himself was Catholic, and if he hadn't outright stated what he was doing in one of his letters.
However, Tolkien was also very clear that what he called applicability is entirely within the purview of the reader. It's not disrespectful in the least to find your own meaning in the work.
Your question presupposes that each volume of Lord of the Ring is a self-contained work. They're not. This is one continuous narrative originally broken up into three volumes for economic reasons. The Two Towers doesn't really have a beginning in that sense. It picks up exactly where Fellowship of the Ring left off, although that happens to be the point where it splits into parallel storylines.
By that logic, counting cards in blackjack would be a tort. Oh wait, it isn't.
Then it's on the employee. It's not Ivey's fault if whoever's responsible for dealing with requests like his doesn't run them by security first.
No, they just agreed to his request for a specific deck of cards that they didn't usually use. And for a specific brand of shuffler that they also didn't usually use.. And for a Mandarin-speaking dealer. And to allow the dealer and his girlfriend to converse in Mandarin at the table.
Yeah, how could anyone possibly anticipate all that would have something to do with an advantage?
He's a known advantage player. No responsible Casino official could look at such a set of bizarre conditions and not figure he's doing it to gain some kind of advantage, even if he can't tell what it is beforehand.
Yes, he changed the odds, and the casino agreed to it ahead of time. They were just being bitches afterwards.
Most of us don't think it was cheating, and fuck the courts for taking the big corporation's side. Even if we did, it wasn't us he cheated. It was the casinos, and everyone with half a brain wants to get as much value out of the casino as possible.
They're not, but it might not make too much difference unless you're hacking the kernel or something.
'Do not use linux' - Should I follow this ?
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