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Re: A good use for Jar Jar figs.
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Thu, 20 Apr 2000 13:46:03 GMT
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John Robert Blaze Kanehl wrote:
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> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Jeff Stembel writes:
> > > In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> > > > I was having this conversation with Barbara a few days back. She's never
> > > > read the LotR books [...]
> > > Have you convinced her to try them? :)
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> > Yah, but they're too long. :-, I've described _The Hobbit_ to her many times,
> > and in some depth, and so I suspect that some time in her life, she'll end up
> > reading at least that one.
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> My sister knows how much I loved these books, but how little time i had to
> reread them when i was constantly on the road, driving all over creation for
> business, so she found 2 sets of cds at amaozon.com (I believe) that are
> from a BBC adaption.... there is a 3 cd box set for The Hobbit and 11 cds
> for LOR...a poor substitute for reading, but great when I was driving 1000+
> miles a week w/ 2 hours between sales calls...these are not straight read by
> a narrator voices, these are dramatizations...a little hokey sometimes, but
> very engaging...these may be an alternative, albeit expensive, way for
> Barbara to "be iniated"
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> The Ralph Bakshi 1980 LOR is ok, but only tells part of the story...
> > > > The thing of it is, that Tolkien had a far better understanding of basic,
> > > > core-level humanity than Lucas ever could have. I could go on, but I'll
> > > > refrain for now...
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> Lucas is a visionary of sorts, legitimizing sci-fi in mainstream movies,
> etc. Tolkien, however, was revolutionary...his writing (like C. S. Lewis)
> can simply be dismissed as "fantasies" or "children's stories" or critically
> on a scholarly level, analyzing war, politics, religion, society and
> philosophy...
And in fact is. I have a nifty little book which is a bunch of research
on Tolkien's writings.
--
Frank Filz
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Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
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| (...) Or, if you want the semi-pejorative analysis of Tolkien ("warts and all"), you can pick up the acerbic, possibly polemical, _Inventing the Middle Ages_ by Norman Cantor; he gets into the ugliness and downright weirdness involved in creating (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) My sister knows how much I loved these books, but how little time i had to reread them when i was constantly on the road, driving all over creation for business, so she found 2 sets of cds at amaozon.com (I believe) that are from a BBC (...) (25 years ago, 13-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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