The Parry Is Wrong." -

Beware The Engineers Of Society, I Say, Who Would Make Everyone In All The World Equal. Opportunitty Should Be Equal, Must Be Equal, But Achievement Must Remain Individual. - Drizzt Do'urden

There Is A Place Within Each Of Us Where We Cannot Hide From The Truth, Where Virtue Sits As Judge. To Admit The Truth Of Our Actions Is To Go Before That Court, Where Process Is Irrelevant. Good And Evil Are Intents, And Intent Is Without Excuse.

Because In Fantasy Perhaps More Than In Any Other Genre, The Character Is Rewarded For Making The Right Choices And Punished For Making The Bad. Ask Boromir.

Do We Behave Out Of Fear Of Punishment, Or Out Of The Demands Of Our Heart? For Me, It Is The Latter, As I Would Hope Is True For All Adults, Thought I Know From Bitter Experience That Such Is Not Often The Case. To Act In A Manner Designed To Catapult You Into Heaven Would Seem Transparent To A God, Any God,for If Ones Heart Is Not In Allignment With The Creator Of That Heaven, Then... What Is The Point?

As I Became A Creature Of The Empty Tunnels, Survival Became Easier And More Difficult All At Once. I Gained In The Physical Skills And Experience Necessary To Live On. I Could Defeat Almost Anything That Wandered Into My Chosen Domain. It Did Not Take Me Long, However, To Discover One Nemesis That I Could Neither Defeat Nor Flee. It Followed Me Wherever I Went - Indeed, The Farther I Ran, The More It Closed In Around Me. My Enemy Was Solitude, The Interminable, Incessant Silence Of Hushed Corridors.