I had the junior single volume edition and couldn't get enough of it, if only
we'd had the internet when I was little. The OP has probably only ever read
comic books and novelizations of action films, he seems to be suggesting that
Tolkien not writing
his novel like a movie script, is somehow a flaw. I wonder if he is even aware
of what a cultural phenomenon the Lord of the Rings was, long before Star
Wars, and what other cultural phenomena have been directly or indirectly
inspired by Tolkien's
writing.
On Friday, 14 February 2014 07:19:00 UTC+1, Wayne Brown wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:52:39 in article <201402131352396809-om
allymdatgeemaildotcom@news.giganews.com> Bill O'Meally wrote:
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> > On 2014-02-13 16:02:15 +0000, O. Sharp said:
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> >
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> >> Cutting out much, but tmc1982@gmail.com writes in part:
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> >>
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> >>> You can argue whether or not Jackson's adaptation is faithful (hint:
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> >>> it's not. Tolkein writing has more in common with the Encyclopedia
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> >>> Brittanica than it does an action film)
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> >>
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> >> A small hint: If I were to go out to Usenet to promote my blog, I'm not
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> >> sure going straight to newsgroup.fans.name-of-author and insulting said
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> >> author is a good strategy.
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> >
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> > Not to mention spelling said author's name correctly.
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>
>
> This might explain why I like Tolkien's books so much more than Jackson's
>
> films. As a child I often read the Encyclopędia Britannica for fun,
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> whereas I'm rather lukewarm about action films in general.
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>
>
> --
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> F. Wayne Brown
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>
>
> Žęs ofereode, šisses swa męg. ("That passed away, this also can.")
>
> from "Deor," in the Exeter Book (folios 100r-100v)
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