19th December 2006, 2:38 PM
I too love trivial details, and that's one of the things I love about Lord of the Rings. LL differs with me on this, preferring to get to the "meat", so to speak.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)