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These are my top 5 Star Wars movies: 1. The Empire Strikes Back 2. Star Wars 3. Return of the Jedi 4. Ewoks: The Battle for Endor 5. Star Tours How do we feel about this?

You guys, I am seriously traumatized. Is anyone else going through the same stunned feeling I am suffering right now? It is a neutral feeling, as if pure joy and utter devastation rammed into one another and spat out a bastard child that can only be described as "confused".

Lucas selling it must be devastating to him when alls said and done. He's felt the hatred and is trying to move on, let go. He feels ostracised by those who made him wealthy; a stark contrast to once being their worshipful master. Is it even possible to pity him? I do.

But since The Lord of the Rings is fantasy, Professor Tolkien didn't have to be a professor to write it. He didn't have to know Norse and Germanic and Celtic mythologies, or absorb nearly every major epic and romantic archetype into his story. He could have been one of an infinite number of illiterate monkeys banging away on the typewriter until the story was complete.

And he still hasn't sent me the "Guidelines to definite measurement of artistic worth: An easy guide to setting the world of arts into perspective and neat order."

Quo Vadis Another hooray for Tadlow/Prometheus. It's a really good score actually and the recording/performance is clearly a labor of love. The music itself feels somewhat different from the later epics penned by Rozsa (maybe it's just me). There is something a bit more intimate about it, lot of beautiful woodwind solos and stuff like that (as opposed to more consistently massive Ben-Hur or El Cid), sometimes also quite noir-ish (for the lack of better word). Maybe it is simply a voice of a composer still new to this kind of a genre. It makes for a very varied and strong listening experience. I also really like all the source material. Karol