Andy's definitions
A merchant, met by Lone Wolf in Joe Dever's Lone Wolf 2: Fire on the Water. He is one of the passengers on the coach from Ragadorn to Durenor, which Lone Wolf is forced to flee in Gorn Cove.
In the Legends novels, Halvorc is slain in the fighting which followed Lone Wolf's battle with an assassin.
In the Legends novels, Halvorc is slain in the fighting which followed Lone Wolf's battle with an assassin.
Sounds like "half-orc", but confusingly, the character is fully human (though a little on the pudgy side). Anyway, there's no Orcs in the Lone Wolf universe.
by Andy April 25, 2004
Get the Halvorcmug. A region of Beleriand, in the north, just to the south of Ard-Galen/Anfauglith and separated by a thin strip of land from Doriath to the south. It is a plateau surrounded by tall mountains which can be reached only via a few dangerous passes, which seem to lead mainly to Nan Dungortheb. Notable features include Rivil's Well and Tarn Aeluin.
Its role in Tolkien's book The Silmarillion is mainly as a site of a rearguard action by a small, heroic band of 14 outlaws led by the human king Barahir and including his son, Beren. It was overrun by Morgoth's forces after Dagor Bragollach, and became a scene of guerrilla battles until eventually only the 14 remained, harassing orkish patrols in the region. After Sauron crushed the outlaws, it was renamed Taur-nu-Fuin.
Its role in Tolkien's book The Silmarillion is mainly as a site of a rearguard action by a small, heroic band of 14 outlaws led by the human king Barahir and including his son, Beren. It was overrun by Morgoth's forces after Dagor Bragollach, and became a scene of guerrilla battles until eventually only the 14 remained, harassing orkish patrols in the region. After Sauron crushed the outlaws, it was renamed Taur-nu-Fuin.
by Andy May 10, 2004
Get the Dorthonionmug. by andy October 24, 2003
Get the Fudge Packermug. CIA manual written in the 1980s and available on the web because it was released under official secrets laws pre-911.
It's revealing because many of the torture tactics now publicised by Iraq abuse photos and Guantanamo survivors' revelations were advocated in the section on "coercive interrogations". In other words, fuck this shit about bad eggs - this was US fucking policy even before 911.
It's revealing because many of the torture tactics now publicised by Iraq abuse photos and Guantanamo survivors' revelations were advocated in the section on "coercive interrogations". In other words, fuck this shit about bad eggs - this was US fucking policy even before 911.
by Andy May 14, 2004
Get the Kubarkmug. A woman who is appreciated by men for her extensive knowledge of the male anatomy and how to use it in new ways.
Hey man you should have seen what me and my girl did last nite. She was actin so gilland my leg started twitching.
by andy April 20, 2005
Get the gillandmug. As pornography is the "graphic depiction of sex," killography is the "graphic depiction of brutal violence."
by Andy December 11, 2003
Get the Killographicmug. In Lacanian theory, a signifier which stops the slippage of the signified under the signifier and fixes meaning, thereby forming a stable symbolic order. It is a particular signifier with no signified of its own, which stands in for the "fullness" of the meaning of the symbolic system itself. However, since contingency and lack are taken to be primary in Lacanian theory, it is necessarily arbitrary and is unable to guarantee its own primacy except through arbitrary and ungrounded violence. It is always haunted by the return of the Real.
In my view, this concept is useful but its basis is mistaken. What is repressed is active desire, held down for fear of punishment, and not some kind of ontological void. Lacan is wrong to pose his problems on such a metaphysical level.
by Andy May 7, 2004
Get the master-signifiermug.