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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 29, 2019 6:27:18 GMT -5
Are there any other books that give you a similar feeling to the Hobbit? For me, its chatty, humorous tone is part of a long tradition of English children's lit and reminds me of things like Kipling's Just So Stories, the early parts of TH White's The Once and Future King, the better passages of CS Lewis's Narnia series (i.e. when he isn't laying on the Christian allegory with a heavy trowel), and even Lewis Carroll's Alice books. Obviously there is wide range of variation amongst all these different writers, but to me each of them employs their own individual version of this kind of authorial voice. Anyone have any other favourites along these lines? , but I can’t vouch that I’d still say that if I re-read it today (I was in third grade). I do remember the same sense of wonder, mixed with a feeling of somehow being at home. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2019 19:13:32 GMT -5
I think I missed this when it was first posted back in July, but the LOTR series on Prime posted this video on their Twitter feed introducing the creative team behind the series. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2019 1:22:25 GMT -5
Something to think of for your next vacation... a Hobbit-themed airBNB in Vermont....    the inside not so Hobbity though, but it looks like they tried...  There are two buildings on the property, one known as the House and the other as the Hill. There's a link to the AirBNB listing in the article if anyone is interested. -M |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Dec 16, 2019 7:38:57 GMT -5
Something to think of for your next vacation... a Hobbit-themed airBNB in Vermont.... the inside not so Hobbity though, but it looks like they tried... There are two buildings on the property, one known as the House and the other as the Hill. There's a link to the AirBNB listing in the article if anyone is interested. -M My wife and I were actually just talking about a Vermont vacation for our summer trip last night...and now I know where I want to stay. The price is decent too, 350 a night for a whole house is great. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2020 0:14:39 GMT -5
How about some Hobbits courtesy of Frazetta...?  -M |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2020 23:17:27 GMT -5
Happy Belated anniversary of Tolkien's birth (it was January 3rd 1892).  -M |
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Post by Rob Allen on Jan 6, 2020 3:17:02 GMT -5
Something occurred to me yesterday. Before I read any of Tolkien's work, I already felt that it had a sort of mystique or aura of exoticism. And I think a substantial part of that was generated by his name. "Tolkien" is an unusual name to start with, but it's those initials that really send it into the stratosphere. "J.R.R. Tolkien" is a name that seems to invite you to another world.
Consider how different the books would feel if he and his publisher had made a different decision.
The Lord of the Rings
by John Tolkien
Does that look as interesting?
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Post by sunofdarkchild on Jan 6, 2020 7:39:52 GMT -5
Something occurred to me yesterday. Before I read any of Tolkien's work, I already felt that it had a sort of mystique or aura of exoticism. And I think a substantial part of that was generated by his name. "Tolkien" is an unusual name to start with, but it's those initials that really send it into the stratosphere. "J.R.R. Tolkien" is a name that seems to invite you to another world. Consider how different the books would feel if he and his publisher had made a different decision. The Lord of the Rings
by John TolkienDoes that look as interesting? That's a big part of the reason the name of the author on all the Harry Potter books is 'J.K. Rowling' and not 'Joanne Rowling' and 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' was known as being written by 'Lemony Snicket' instead of 'Daniel Handler.' |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2020 16:46:09 GMT -5
The publisher insisted on J.K. Because it was thought that the target audience for Potter: young boys would not want to read a book written by a female author.
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Post by Confessor on Jan 6, 2020 20:51:08 GMT -5
Don't mention Harry Potter in a Tolkien thread. You're liable to get struck down by a boulder from a stone giant.  |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jan 9, 2020 8:30:13 GMT -5
O.k., I'm not even into LoTR as much as I used to be, but this is such a good Tolkien-geek smackdown:
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Post by brutalis on Jan 9, 2020 8:39:18 GMT -5
Egads! Never when 1st reading Tolkien back in the 70's would I have in my wildest imaginings thought it would become such a well known entity in the worlds mindset that such a geek smack down would ever be seen, let alone make sense and be understood by so many. All hail the mighty Colbert!!!
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Post by Confessor on Jan 9, 2020 9:54:28 GMT -5
Egads! Never when 1st reading Tolkien back in the 70's would I have in my wildest imaginings thought it would become such a well known entity in the worlds mindset that such a geek smack down would ever be seen, let alone make sense and be understood by so many. Well, that's the power of three hit movies that are beloved by millions of people worldwide who have never and will never read the books, I guess. But yeah, I know what you mean. It's like, there's an insurance advert running on British TV at the moment that shows a guy in a call centre, and his dialogue implies that he is talking to the Marvel version of Thor about insuring his hammer. However, all the viewing audience hears is the call centre guy repeating the magical properties of Mjölnir, with no mention of Thor or anything Marvel related, and it ends with the guy saying, "but if it always comes back, why do you need to insure it?" Clearly the advertisers felt that most people would understand the reference and get the joke. Which I'm sure they do! But the fact that something as nerdy as the magical properties of Thor's hammer is now so widely known among the general populace of Great Britain that it can be used to sell insurance to the masses is really quite something. Geek culture sure has come a long, long way in the past two decades. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jan 9, 2020 10:15:11 GMT -5
Of course, Stephen Colbert is well-known as a legit Tolkien geek. I still remember this one from his old Colbert Report days:
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2020 13:45:51 GMT -5
Head shots don’t mean much, but nevertheless, I am so excited to see it getting started.  |
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