The lawfully awesome celtic4 brings to our attention the fact that Christopher Tolkien has finished a book begun by his father, to be published next year, titled The Children of Hurin. Woo! Granted, having read The Sil now, I have to say they chose probably the most catastrophically tragic family therein. Which is really saying something, considering The ( Read more... )

One last note on The Silmarillion. In regards to this passage ( Read more... )

One way or another I ended up at MinasTirith.com, where they have a "Things Silmarillion characters wouldn't say" thread. I have culled my favorites here, properly attributed ( Read more... )

I have finished The Silmarillion (and associated "books" it's packaged with, such as the Akallabeth and all that), and henceforth I am not trying to apply any of the diacritic marks to the vowels. Sorry, Professor. I'm on a schedule here ( Read more... )

1. Those who have read Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell should come join the discussion at jedmiller's journal of who should be cast in the film version. Apparently the first draft of the script is done, and that's as far as it's gotten, so perhaps our voices will yet be heard! Well, we can dream ( Read more... )

Thank you for participating in yesterday's silly poll. I don't actually care if I'm a BNF, but felt like asking on a whim. I'm glad, in fact, that such a large contingent answered "No." :)

Anyhow:
I am finally tackling The Silmarillion. I'm only 146 pages in (my version has 378, not counting indexes and glossaries and genealogies and such), but ( Read more... )

This one is apparently making the rounds. I've gotten three or four emails about it today. The Silmarillion in 1000 Words, by camwyn:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/camwyn/328358.html

Er, confession: I haven't actually read the Sil. So while I trust that this ( Read more... )

I am back from vacation. Sorry for the hiatus.

Where was I? Oh...( nowhere special. )

Rec'ing someone else's journal for you to read, today.

teasel has been continuing to excel as a hard-working and scholarly Ringer. Check out her latest 4 or 5 journal entries: she's got screencaps up, comparing parallel moments from different points in the film. For instance, Frodo and Sam's hand-clasp lifeline in the River Anduin, from FOTR; next to ( Read more... )

Originally posted 10-18-2002Okay. Found in my email today a serious comment from one of my relatives, about why she didn't entirely like the FOTR movie ( Read more... )