Birthdays and Tolkienian This and That
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eldritchhobbitHappy birthday to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
brighteyed_jill, and happy early birthday to scribblerworks, mjolnir1964, altariel, pwilkinson, lukeski, seemag, and pinkfinity, and thrihyrne. May you enjoy many happy returns of the day, my friends!
I'm doing the start-of-semester shuffle as my classes get underway.
I thought this might be of interest to some of you. It's a 2003 documentary narrated by Sir Ian Holm called The Real Middle-earth, and it investigates how actual locations that featured in J.R.R. Tolkien's life helped to inspire his created world. There are some lovely insights and visuals here, and since I was sharing it with some of my students, I thought I'd share it here, too.
And speaking of all things Tolkien, just in case anyone missed this...
* from Le Monde: "My Father's 'Eviscerated' Work - Son Of Hobbit Scribe J.R.R. Tolkien Finally Speaks Out"
* from TheOneRing.net: "Concerning Christopher – An Essay on Tolkien’s Son’s Decision to Not Allow Further Cinematic Licensing of His Work"
* from The Tolkienist: "A Commentary on 'Concerning Christopher'" (Thanks tojan_u_wine!)
“I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama..."
- J.R.R. Tolkien to Milton Waldeman, about his Middle-earth works
brighteyed_jill, and happy early birthday to scribblerworks, mjolnir1964, altariel, pwilkinson, lukeski, seemag, and pinkfinity, and thrihyrne. May you enjoy many happy returns of the day, my friends!I'm doing the start-of-semester shuffle as my classes get underway.
I thought this might be of interest to some of you. It's a 2003 documentary narrated by Sir Ian Holm called The Real Middle-earth, and it investigates how actual locations that featured in J.R.R. Tolkien's life helped to inspire his created world. There are some lovely insights and visuals here, and since I was sharing it with some of my students, I thought I'd share it here, too.
And speaking of all things Tolkien, just in case anyone missed this...
* from Le Monde: "My Father's 'Eviscerated' Work - Son Of Hobbit Scribe J.R.R. Tolkien Finally Speaks Out"
* from TheOneRing.net: "Concerning Christopher – An Essay on Tolkien’s Son’s Decision to Not Allow Further Cinematic Licensing of His Work"
* from The Tolkienist: "A Commentary on 'Concerning Christopher'" (Thanks to
jan_u_wine!)“I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama..."
- J.R.R. Tolkien to Milton Waldeman, about his Middle-earth works
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Date: 2013-01-10 01:18 am (UTC)It is as Tolkien said in 1958 (!):
"I look East, West, North, South, and I do not see Sauron; but I see that Saruman has many descendants. We Hobbits have against them no magic weapons. Yet, my gentlehobbits, I give you this toast: To the Hobbits. May they outlast the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees.”
May dear Mr. Tolkien, who has labored so diligently all his life to bring his father's works to the public, indeed outlast the Sarumans.