Have the Mods removed a recent Tolkien book thread?
Posted by: Deane F on 18 April 2007
I can't find the thread that was posted recently about a new book that the late JRR Tolkien's son has released. If it has been removed I am mystified as to possible reasons.
Can anybody enlighten - or find the thread?
Can anybody enlighten - or find the thread?
Just got my copy today - wonderful illustrations - Can't wait to read it.
£4 off too 
quote:Originally posted by acad tsunami:
ps - I've nearly finished it already
I knew it!
I pretty much agree with Mark. If I had never read the books I would think the films were an awesome achievement (Mike is right - there is some wonderful stuff there)but as it is they annoy me considerably in places. The words 'heresy' and 'blasphemy' spring to mind! Also I miss the 'thees' and thous' as in 'I have loved thee since ere I first saw thee'. The director sold out to the computer game generation imo. I wonder what Tolkien would have made of the films - I suspect he would have hated them.
I agonised about seeing the damn films, I really did. In the films I don't see my Middle Earth I see someone elses. I don't want to see the film in my minds eye when I read the books I want to go back to the Middle Earth I discovered as a thirteen year old and have loved ever since. Middle Earth for me is now a strange and unwanted hybrid.
My introduction came when my history teacher came into the classroom one morning and dumped his briefcase on my desk and took out three pristine volumes of hardback and placed them carefully in front of me. 'These books are my own personal possessions, read them over the (easter) holiday and tell me what you think'. I was stunned, teachers just don't single a pupil out and lend them their personal possessions! So I read it and I was hooked. Much of what I adored about the LotR I could not fully articulate until I had read 'Master of Middle Earth' by professor Kocher a few weeks later and it is this stuff that the films don't come even close to getting right but this why books are nearly always better than films.
My old history teacher, who subsequently became a friend, retired last year after 36 years in the same school and I bought him the special anniversary edition of the LotR (see pic below)as a thank you for having lent me his books all those years ago.
I only have a battered paperback copy these days . I lost my vast Tolkien collection a couple of years back
I agonised about seeing the damn films, I really did. In the films I don't see my Middle Earth I see someone elses. I don't want to see the film in my minds eye when I read the books I want to go back to the Middle Earth I discovered as a thirteen year old and have loved ever since. Middle Earth for me is now a strange and unwanted hybrid.
My introduction came when my history teacher came into the classroom one morning and dumped his briefcase on my desk and took out three pristine volumes of hardback and placed them carefully in front of me. 'These books are my own personal possessions, read them over the (easter) holiday and tell me what you think'. I was stunned, teachers just don't single a pupil out and lend them their personal possessions! So I read it and I was hooked. Much of what I adored about the LotR I could not fully articulate until I had read 'Master of Middle Earth' by professor Kocher a few weeks later and it is this stuff that the films don't come even close to getting right but this why books are nearly always better than films.
My old history teacher, who subsequently became a friend, retired last year after 36 years in the same school and I bought him the special anniversary edition of the LotR (see pic below)as a thank you for having lent me his books all those years ago.
I only have a battered paperback copy these days
. I lost my vast Tolkien collection a couple of years back