Interesting Links for 07-01-2013

[andrewducker]

• My Father's "Eviscerated" Work - Son Of Hobbit Scribe J.R.R. Tolkien Finally Speaks Out
  (tags: TheHobbit lotr Tolkien )
• Brilliant book cover design for Orwell's 1984
  (tags: design book 1984 )
• James McAvoy says he wants to play Gandalf in The Silmarillion
  (tags: Tolkein movies lotr )
• So, how many sexual partners did the characters in Friends have?
  

Comments

[philmophlegm]

I fear that the role of Gandalf in The Silmarillion would be something of a waste of Mr McAvoy's talents (I thought he was excellent in 'The Last King of Scotland').

Olorin ("Olorin I was in the West that is now forgotten") is mentioned once (as the "wisest of the Maiar") in the Valaquenta, which is a short essay which explains who all the Valar are, as well as some of the more notable Maiar. He also appears as often as you'd expect on the short essay "On the Rings of Power and the Third Age" which compresses three thousand years of the Third Age into twenty-odd pages. Olorin / Gandalf / Mithrandir / Tharkun does not appear at all in the main Quenta Silmarillion. Most of that is set in Middle-earth in the First Age, while Olorin is safely away in the West.

He only arrived in Middle-earth around the start of the second millennium of the Third Age, together with the other four wizards.

If you wanted to do a Gandalf movie, you have about two and a half thousand years of exploring Middle-earth that isn't really covered in any of the books to use.

[cartesiandaemon]

I was thinking that, although I've not read all the way through yet so I wasn't sure if I was right. (I mean, if he wants to play a small but important cameo, that's fine, it's not really a waste, but it is if want you want is more gandalf :))

[andrewducker]

I am looking forward to Gandalf: The College Years.

[philmophlegm]

http://philmophlegm.livejournal.com/268065.html

March: Peter Jackson announces plans to make 'Farmer Giles of Ham' into a trilogy of films.

Et cetera...

[philmophlegm]

That I could see. Except that isn't Pixar owned by Disney, and didn't JRRT despise Disney so much that just about the only creative stipulation he ever made with movie rights was that they could never fall into the hands of the evil empire?

It'll have to be Dreamworks instead.