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serai1

Expanding the canon

Sep 22, 2006 22:23

News on the Tolkien front:

Christopher Tolkien has completed the Narn i Hin Hurin

A quiet huzzah. Reading that story in Unfinished Tales was one of the most supremely frustrating literary experiences of my life, because the expanded version of Turin's tale - intense, tragic, downright operatic - was so well-written, and yet there was this big ( Read more... )

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ex_rogerpit September 23 2006, 05:44:31 UTC

This one will definitely be going in my collection - right alongside my copies of Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion.

serai1 September 23 2006, 21:24:15 UTC

I'm gonna end up with a whole set of bookshelves filled with Tolkieniana!

illyria_novia September 23 2006, 12:03:39 UTC

I beg to differ. I think Joaquin Phoenix will make a very good Turin. And somehow when I think about that man who sort of married his mom, the Easterling (?), I think Oded Fehr. And Saeros...um...Jude Law? Who do you think should play Beleg? :)

serai1 September 23 2006, 15:08:52 UTC

Oh geez. Joaquin Phoenix I would not pick, simply because he gives me the creeps. Maybe it's the roles he's chosen, but there's something slimy about the guy that sets my teeth on edge. For me, although Turin is dark and overly obsessed with his own history, there's a core of goodness in him that is overwhelmed by fate, and that makes him a character that I sympathize with despite his tendency to shoot himself in the foot on a regular basis. And I just don't get that from Joaquin.

Oded Fehr is wonderful, and I'd love to see him in any Tolkien film. Jude Law? Eh. Overrated, in my opinion. Beleg I'd have a hard time casting. It should be someone unknown, I think. Elves having that veneer of perfection (at least compared with Men), I think it would be distracting to cast someone that's too familiar.

starlit_woods September 23 2006, 12:27:25 UTC

Now that's a mathom! :)

serai1 September 23 2006, 21:24:46 UTC

But we have no intentions of giving it away!

rubynye September 23 2006, 13:27:04 UTC

Eh, I could go on! But hey, New Tolkien! Now that's a lovely gift from the Professor on this Hobbits' Day, woudln't you say?

Yes, yes it is.

*bounces quietly*

serai1 September 23 2006, 21:23:01 UTC

*bounces with you*

By the way, I did read that Five Characters thing you wrote. It was lovely! I was trying to figure who the Bad Guy was - the syntax felt too formal for an Orc, but I can't imagine a Nazgul wanting to eat anybody.

rubynye September 23 2006, 22:22:29 UTC

You read it! Yay!

*rereads* *bonks head on wall* #4 was meant to be an Orc. Maybe he's an Orc who's getting a degree from Lugburz College. At any rate, I'm glad you liked that Five Things! It was fun.

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serai1 September 23 2006, 21:12:13 UTC

It's basically the whole middle third of the story. The version in Unfinished Tales is expanded from the terse scriptural style of the Sil into the novelistic style of LOTR. But since Tolkien wasn't up against any deadlines for it, he was writing as he felt like writing, and the middle section just never got finished. So that's what he's filled in.