Flats / LOTR

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

Saitaina wrote:

> It is like our American that go up to 4 bedrooms?

Saitaina, dear, there is no limit that apartments can have no more 
than four bedrooms. There are five- and six bedroom apartments. I 
remember some little thing on the news years ago about some 
Rockefellers paying some ridiculous amount of money to knock down the 
wall between the six bedroom apartment they had in one Manhattan 
building and the six bedroom apartment they had in an adjacent 
Manhattan building to create one twelve bedroom apartment. 

Amy wrote:

>  thinks the problem is that the Council of Elrond is cut short and

Long ago I heard a radio with (the scriptwriter?) who described the 
whole creative team bashing their heads over the Council of Elrond 
until they realised it was one long committee meeting, and committee 
meetings, no matter how thrilling in written form, don't make good 
movie scenes.

John wrote:

> I *still* agree with Ursula LeGuin. I think that the "sir" thing
> could have been left out. They're meant to bloody well be 
> contemporaries... *frowns*

It's social class, not age. For Tolkien, one of the things that was 
good about the Shire and the old days and bad about Mordor and modern 
times is that social class was rigid and taken for granted in the old 
days, and nowadays people try to get above their upbringing. Tolkien 
was fabulous in many ways, but that was not one of them.