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JRR Tolkien, born January 3rd 1892.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, first aired January 3rd 1993.

Never noticed this before. How daft am I? Anyway - huzzah!

Date: 2011-01-03 01:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com
Surely that can't be a coincidence...

Date: 2011-01-03 01:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
If it was Blake's 7's birthday as well, I might start suspecting intelligent design - but that's January 2nd.

Date: 2011-01-03 01:43 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] kalypso-v.livejournal.com
Roll on January 3rd 2094!

Date: 2011-01-03 01:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katlinel.livejournal.com
It's like it* was meant, or something.

* I am refusing to define 'it'. You can insert your own definition. I think that will be for the best.

Date: 2011-01-03 01:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] parrot-knight.livejournal.com
DS9 can vote, then, at least in the UK; and if television programmes had the franchise.

Date: 2011-01-03 01:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
I wonder what was first published in 1791?

Date: 2011-01-03 01:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
I shall define "it" as "a thing that gives me mild pleasure". Yes. Yes. A good definition.

Date: 2011-01-03 01:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Not in time for the election though.

PS Only television companies have the franchise ba-dum TISH.
Edited Date: 2011-01-03 01:52 pm (UTC)

Date: 2011-01-03 01:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katlinel.livejournal.com
I heartily concur in the excellence of this definition.

Date: 2011-01-03 03:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] telperion1.livejournal.com
Ah, sinchronicity! What a cool coincidence.

Date: 2011-01-03 04:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
I thought you might appreciate it! :-)

Date: 2011-01-03 05:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jhall1.livejournal.com
Thanks to the wonder of Wikipedia:

February–March - Publication of Part I of Thomas Paine's pamphlet "Rights of Man"
Publication of Elizabeth Inchbald's novel "A Simple Story"
Publication of James Boswell's biography "Life of Johnson"
Publication of Ann Radcliffe's novel "The Romance of the Forest"

So it was a pretty good year.

I wonder what Tolkien would have made of DS9. I have a feeling that he wouldn't have approved. :)

Date: 2011-01-03 07:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fallingtowers.livejournal.com
Clearly an auspicious day, that 3rd of January.

Hmmm, tonight might also be the perfect occasion to uncork that bottle of mead I bought at the local Christmas market...

Date: 2011-01-03 07:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ithilwen.livejournal.com
I'd never noticed it either! Two great things, even if they don't exactly go great together. :D

Date: 2011-01-04 08:36 am (UTC)

Date: 2011-01-04 09:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Garak's worked well in other crossover, but I've never seem him dumped into Middle-earth...

Date: 2011-01-04 11:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Sterling work! And some good texts.

I really don't know what Tolkien would have thought of DS9! I think he and Lewis used to read science fiction. Didn't Lewis's SF trilogy come from a bet they had with each other? One to write time travel, the other to write space travel. Tolkien's time travel story, The Lost Road, was never finished (of course) although it's rather wonderful.

Date: 2011-01-04 05:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jhall1.livejournal.com
I read one of the books in Lewis's SF trilogy as a teenager, but was rather put off when it became clear that he regarded science and all scientists as tools of the Devil!

Date: 2011-01-04 05:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
I haven't read them. Oh, Lewis... *shakes head*

Hmm, now I feel a bit like Inspector Morse.

Date: 2011-01-06 11:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ithilwen.livejournal.com
Garak loose in Middle earth - now that's a scary thought!

Date: 2011-01-07 09:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
He'd be running Isengard within a month.

Date: 2011-01-07 11:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ithilwen.livejournal.com
And Mordor a month or two later (and doubtless doing a much better job with the place than Sauron ever did!).

Date: 2011-01-08 10:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com
Then a massive crisis of conscience and exile to Osgiliath.

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