... Watched a bit of 'Excalibur' last night. Yeouch! Gotta be thankful that, despite all the recent complaints about 'LOTR', about all its omissions, ...
... It sure doesn't seem old to me. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "A generation which ignores history has no past...
Hello! I'm new here, so I thought I would take the opportunity to post a couple of comments I made on another Tolkien list. Here's the first: I am not hopeful...
A disappointment of Jackson's film was the elimination (at least so far) of the Gollum backstory: not just the riddling session with Bilbo, but the murder of...
More than a year ago I set out to write a new edition of Parma Endorion: Essays on Middle-earth. I even arranged to have it translated into French, Spanish,...
I just noticed that the copies of _The Silmarillion_ that are being offered in a flyer from a book club has "Second Edition" on the cover. Did I miss ...
Okkkkkkk....a search on Google yielded this from B&N.com,then..: This new hardcover edition of The Silmarillion features a number of minor textual corrections,...
Lord of the Rings won the first American Film Institute award for Best Film. It also took honors for design and digital effects. [Non-text portions of this...
By the way, as a newcomer reading through the recent archives, I quite enjoyed the vigorous debate about "Hal's walking tree." Although the tome got a little...
1. The only viewers who can be immediately upset by changes that Peter Jackson has made in adapting The Fellowship of the Ring are those *who have read the...
There was a lovely full-page ad for LOTR in the New York Times on New Year's Day, picturing Frodo and Gandalf in Moria with this dialogue in large letters: ...
Anne Brode directed my attention to this obituary from _The Guardian_: Anne Ridler Poet and librettist whose early work was championed by Eliot, and who was...
Hi, Has anybody ever listened to Blind Guardian's, "Nightfall in Middle Earth?" It seems largely based on the events of, "The Silmarillion," and the style of...
... Maybe they were getting Za'ha'dum and Mordor mixed up, just as Aragorn resembled another Ranger. . . Message: 4 ... Nope. ... Yep. ... Nope! ... Well,...
Trudy wrote: "Since the maize was growing within the borders of the Shire, I assume the hobbits got it from the same source as their potatoes--considering at...
Here's a random set of lists of top ten movies for 2001 selected by various critics. You're invited to post more if you can find them. Note that _The Lord of...
... I suppose the Numenoreans could have brought it over, but then I'd expect something more like one of the many varieties of "indian corn" not 3780. . . ... ...
... Yes, but with some imagination and research it could have and should have sounded better. Actually, it did sound somewhat better in Dolby surround. I...
In a message dated 12/30/01 6:46:52 PM Central Standard Time, ... http://www.msnbc.com/news/674933.asp?0dm=L26QL</A> Well, but this isn't quite fair "Sam, who...
... If I ever get rich, I'll get the Folio Society edition. I covet it. That and the green leather-bound edition I saw in Hildifons Took's home south of St....
The United Methodist Reporter is covering Lord of the Rings this week. There's a review of the movie, and a review of a book, Finding God in the Lord of the...
I recently found a nifty site full of advertisements for used book sales sorted by locality. It's http://www.book-sales-in-america.com/. As the name...
... If you haven't got any "lips" and try to play one of those things, that is how they will sound. . . ... "A generation which ignores history has no past and...
Just in case anyone wondered, here are the results of the United Methodist Reporter poll on Harry Potter: 1. Do you think Harry Potter teaches witchcraft? Yes...
... Some of the same. I have some friends like that. I gave them LoTR for their wedding present, and they love the book, but they think HP is evil, having...
Intertesting thread on the Frodo-Sam relationship. Fundamentally, I don't think Tolkien was interested in sex at all in LOTR, and most of his other works. It...
... Yeah. No joke. Major peeve of mine. Sunday morning someone sent a URL to a site that condemned LoTR. It was full of lies and distortions. And, even if it...
