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The Tolkien Professor 3 weeks, 4 days ago’I’ve got things to do, my making and my singing, my talking and my walking, and my watching of the country…and Goldberry is waiting!’
I have just begun to wonder what it is that Tom Bombadil makes. Any ideas?
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The Tolkien Professor 5 months agoSooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo……………………
Has anyone else seen, ehem… The Hobbit: The Unexpected Journey”?
And, if you did.
Were you as apoplectic as I at the complete evisceration of Tolkien’s carefully crafted Mythology?
Here is my thought on what I saw Peter Jackson do to The Hobbit
It’s as if a three year-old has…[Read more]
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The Tolkien Professor 5 months, 2 weeks agoI’m not sure the Bull or Haggard are necessarily allegories of capitalism, but rather modern rationalism as it is this philosophy that sucks the wonder out of life. Not the excesses of Haggard and his lack of […]
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The Tolkien Professor 6 months, 1 week agoDear Prof,
I have hope to buy you a pint after the Dec 4th NYC Exploring the Hobbit event, I recently found out of it from a colleague at Houghton Mifflin, and have hope we can toast The Professor […] -
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The Tolkien Professor 7 months, 3 weeks agoMy copy of Olsen’s new book has arrived, I am enjoying it immensely. He writes so clearly
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You really need to lighten up or you will have an early demise just from your own vitriol! Listen to yourself! You are literally choking on hate now and I worry for your health.
Honestly! You sound like the kid who owns the ball and wants the game played his way and ONLY his way or he will take his ball and go home!
The problem is the kid…[Read more]
I’d like to think you are kidding but i guess not. I consider myself mostly a “purist” where the JRRT books are concerned and have read almost everything he wrote about middle earth. Silmarillion, most of the Histories, etc. So there is a very small part of me that sympathizes with your position. BUT the movies you want to see will NEVER…[Read more]
You wrote:
“The general public will not go see fan fiction.”
But this is EXACTLY what Jackson has produced.
By the definition of “Fan Fiction”, ANY ALTERATION of Tolkien’s work would be thus defined.
Jackson produced a work of Fan Fiction.
And the 1970s Animated Version of “The Hobbit” was a great work compared to this one, and not at…[Read more]
I liked it. I was just as irritated as you sound by Return of the King, so I wasn’t expecting much. But this was good. I’m surprised by how much of the book made it in to the movie — even that silly story about Golfimbul!
I appreciated how he worked in the many other parts of Middle-earth history.
But I was horrified and appalled by his alteration of history.
To use another (recently discovered) analogy.
This is as if someone did a movie about the Texas Revolution, and somehow or another, British Admiral Horatio Nelson survived the Battle of Trafalgar…[Read more]
Hi can you please send me some link of where i can find more information about the curved sword symbolism?
Thanks for your time.
There is nothing online.
The most recent publication by Christopher Tolkien, of his father’s work, on King Arthur and the Arthurian Mythology will have some of his writings about the symbolism of swords. As does his work on Beowulf. Most of it is not couched in explicit language, but it is very clear that the “straight sword” is analogous with…[Read more]