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Well also in LOTR you're looking at just SHEER volume. ANYONE trying to come up with a manageable yet respectable movie version of the trilogy would have to DECIDE what was going to go in and what was going to come out. (Tolkien was good but I seriously can not stand the way the man wrote battle scenes. Even in The Hobbit it was like "Orc number 15 attacked human number 12" Every single person of the entire MULTITUDINOUS armies are accounted for. It's Just CRAZY his level of detail).

Back on Jackson and interpretation, I mean he plucked the Arwen/Aragorn thing out of the appendices from the original books. I had this discussion with a friend of mine. I have the gold box second release of the books that my dad passed down to me and they have the appendices in them which includes Arwen/Aragorn romance. But Andy he only read the books ONCE the movies started coming out and he wanted to argue round and round with me that there was NONE of that in the books, and it'd been a long time since I had read them so I went back and flipped through them and sure enough I was remembering information from the Appendices.

Also, I was the one who mentioned Terry Brooks, he also wrote the book for Ep. I. It was like two of my favorite things coming together Terry Brooks and Ep. I. I have a signed version of the Tangle Box. Tacoma is Terry's home town so he was here when I was like in 8th grade and got to meet him and talk with him. He praised my well used 60 cent library sale copy of Magic Kingdom for Sale, Sold.

omg... i was standing outside with naaman waiting for the bus. it didn't come; and i lost the number to the bus depot. so i'm trying to call the school and everyone with no answers. adn i'm like what's going on??? lol.. then i look at the time and somehow I managed to wake up an hour early.. not realizing i was up early.. redface lol.. so um.. yeah. boy is that weird. he'll still go to school.. so yeah!

DUDE Been there done that. I ended up with Gallstone Pancreatitis and an inflamed liver after a gallstone attack (Turns out the pancreas and the liver not so much in love with gallstones) I was in the hospital for a week on a liquid diet waiting for the imflamation to go down before having my Gallbladder removed.

Pregnancy can cause it (it was what caused it in my case. I was having attacks at 7 mo pregnant that the nurse kept telling me was just bad indegestion). Pregnancy slows down the processing of cholesterol and it can build up in the gallbladder and make stones. You can even have it and not have any symptoms for a long time.

If you'd like to ask any questions go ahead!

dang... what are symptoms of pancreatisis? and gallstones? is that like kidney stones.. but in your gallbladder?

The nurses would look at my chart and they'd get this really really soft look on their faces and go..."Are you okay do you need more morphine?"

And they apologized and apologized for keeping me waiting in the emergency room because it is damn near one of the most excruciating pains you can experience. Even the lady picking me up on the gurney and changing my sheets the week I was in the hospital was like "Ooooh gallstones I hear that hurts like a sumabitch!"

Grace - Symptoms of a gallstone attack are a severe SEVERE pain ( I seriously thought it was a heart attack) RIGHT under where your breast bone is, it almost feels as if pain runs along the bottom of your ribs and up the back of your shoulder blades. But the most excruciating part is RIGHT at that point where the bottom of your breast bone is. It's hard to breath, you feel like you can't catch your breath and no matter how you move or what you do it doesn't go away or lessen at all. It feels sorta like gas in that you can't breath and feel like if you coudl just stretch out and give your stomach more room the pain would lessen but it doesn't. If you eat anything it gets worse, you'll probably throw up whatever you ate within seconds.

Attacks can last from 30 minutes to HOURS. Mine had never been longer than like an hour so I just thought it was gas and indigestion when I was pregnant (no s**t, a nurse actually said "yeah that indigestion can be a killer at seven months" when I described it to her) I went to the emergency room because it had lasted for 12 HOURS that time. The Liver Function Test they do to find gallstones will show up elevated in pregnancy REGARDLESS of whether you have gallstones so it's hard for them to tell by just looking at your blood work.

Although there are a few lucky people that can live with asymptomatic gallstones...meaning they have them but never present a problem. The reason they want to get TDK's gallbladder out is because if any go into the intestines they are harder to get, they have to go down your throat.

It used to be "Fat Fair Fourty and Female" was the diognostic to even look for gallstones. However they are finding boys and girls as young as 12 with gallstone attacks now that they are actually looking. They think it's partially hereditary. Also they are finding people who have LOST a lot of weight quickly with gallstones caused by rapid weight loss. As well as pregnant women especially those that have more than one child.

The only thing that can alert you is an "attack" and if you catch the attacks early enough you can have them blow up the gallstones with sound or take medication to break them up. The thing is about prevention is they can only suggest a low cholesterol diet, but sometimes (in the cases of heredity and pregnancy) it doesn't help.

What aggravates it...I mean I guess spurns the attacks is when the Gallstones block the bileduct so bile backs up in the system into the liver and pancreas. Eating causes pain because when you eat your body produces more bile for digestion.

I'm finally about done with school at least until August. I turned in my last take-home final this afternoon, and I'm editing my last paper to turn in Monday. It'll be nice to hopefully get back into things here. I've missed a ton since I started school.

Thats some pretty cool information we have going here.