BloodBoal 7,538 Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 Har-di-har har BB. Har-di-har-har.Then again JWFan has always been a place where we laugh at typos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Faleel 5,350 Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 Ah quite right, quite right. I have to say I am at times a bit bewildered by the nomenclature of all these "phases" and "drafts". I am re-reading through the History of the Lord of the Rings (Part 1: The Return of the Shadow) in the History of Middle-earth series at the moment. It is very interesting to follow the way Tolkien initially constructed the story and text and how much was actually changed and revised and surprisingly how much was retained from the early versions of the tale in the final text. I am very glad Marmaduke (Meriadoc) and Bingo Bolger-Baggins (Frodo) and Odo Bolger/Took (Pippin) were left by the wayside as names for the protagonists and Tolkien supressed much of the "hobbit-talk". Also Trotter is quite a character at this point.I thought the capture of one of the Hobbits by the Nazgul was an interesting development, and it is a shame Tolkien did not set down what happened before he abandoned the idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Story of Kullervo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Man they are really scraping the bottom of the Tolkien's unpublished works barrel with this one. Still it will be interesting to see how Tolkien adapted the storyline of Kullervo poems from the Kalevala in his own treatment of the legend.I am expecting a release of all the grocery store lists Tolkien left behind in the foreseeable future. They will unravel the buying habits of the author and give a luminous inkling to his literary inspirations and relationship with food. Gollum Cat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 17, 2015 Author Share Posted July 17, 2015 Pity PJ doesn't have the rights to this one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 I am sure he'll suddenly find interest in our national epic and start systematically tearing it down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 It's not even "unpublished" really. It's been available since 2010. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 So you're saying the Tolkien Library is lying?Anyway, I might get it. The story sounds interesting, and I really like the cover (no matter how weird it looks). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 It was available in the Tolkien Studies journal in Volume 7 (2010). So yeah it was previously published but I guess not that accessible. I too will get this release though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkgyver 1,645 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 The Silmarillion will be made in some form, and Jackson will be involved in some form. Mark these words, and mark them well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,350 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 IMHO the only members of the "old crew" I would want near a Silmarillion film are Alan Lee, John Howe, and Howard Shore. Incanus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 IMHO the only members of the "old crew" I would want near a Silmarillion film are Alan Lee, John Howe, and Howard Shore.Amen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,350 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 I wouldn't really mind the Weta Workshop guys either, but that's it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnald 365 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 You'll take what you're given and like it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted July 21, 2015 Share Posted July 21, 2015 You'll have what daddy gives you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 IMHO the only members of the "old crew" I would want near a Silmarillion film are Alan Lee, John Howe, and Howard Shore.I wouldn't really mind the Weta Workshop guys either, but that's it.The whole crew can stay. It's just PJ that needs to go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnald 365 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Don't forget those pesky Warner suits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Indeed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,350 Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 IMHO the only members of the "old crew" I would want near a Silmarillion film are Alan Lee, John Howe, and Howard Shore.I wouldn't really mind the Weta Workshop guys either, but that's it.The whole crew can stay. It's just PJ that needs to go!What about Boyens and Walsh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted July 27, 2015 Share Posted July 27, 2015 Walsh can stay.Boyens? I'll have to think about that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,368 Posted August 11, 2015 Share Posted August 11, 2015 The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Story of KullervoKindle version drops August 27th: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00S5LDX3C/jwfancom-20Hardcover version drops October 13th: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0008131368/jwfancom-20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Got the Art of the Lord of the Rings yesterday. It's a very nice book and it's great to see so many hand drawn maps by the professor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 So, are you truly back? You come back to us, at the turn of the tide? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,350 Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Nah, he's only here to badmouth Abrama again when the TFA trailer comes out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted October 16, 2015 Share Posted October 16, 2015 Was just busy for awhile and didn't post. Was still lurking though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Got the Story of the Kullervo today as well as The Lays of Beleriand. Incanus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Got the Story of the Kullervo today as well as The Lays of Beleriand. Yeah got myself a copy of Kullervo a few days ago with some of the Tolkien miscellanea like The Tolkien Reader and Unfinished Tales. My Tolkien collection is now just about complete if you do not count art books for LotR and the Hobbit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 I still have loads of gaps but... Unfinished Tales? That's kind of a big one man!I'd have it completed if I didn't keep buying copies of The Hobbit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 I still have loads of gaps but... Unfinished Tales? That's kind of a big one man!I'd have it completed if I didn't keep buying copies of The Hobbit. I had The Unfinished Tales in Finnish but decided to get it in the original language now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Ah fair enough! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnome in Plaid 219 Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 A friend of mine has found Guillermo Del Toro the perfect scapegoat for everything that went wrong with the Hobbit films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 19, 2015 Author Share Posted October 19, 2015 Sure.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 A friend of mine has found Guillermo Del Toro the perfect scapegoat for everything that went wrong with the Hobbit films.Heh, everyone knows Peter Jackson is the goat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,350 Posted October 23, 2015 Share Posted October 23, 2015 http://comicbook.com/2015/10/23/middle-earth-map-annotated-by-jrr-tolkien-discovered-in-copy-of-/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bofur01 245 Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 Saw it in Blackwell's a few days ago while looking for textbooks, thought it looked a bit pricy :') Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted October 24, 2015 Share Posted October 24, 2015 Yeah a tad pricy to buy it to put on my wall too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 Might buy it out of next week's wages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 You have quite a nice salary then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 I really don't. I am looking at getting a nice hardback copy of the Silmarillion though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 I really don't. I am looking at getting a nice hardback copy of the Silmarillion though.I suggest a Ted Nasmith illustrated one. That version also contains a preface with a lengthy letter Tolkien wrote to Milton Waldman in 1951 (Also found in The Letters), which pre-dates Silmarillion but which lays out the whole mythology in one succint examination by Tolkien himself, which also shows how aware and deeply mindful he was of all the connections, layers, meanings and themes interlaced in his work. Bilbo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 I've seen that and I definitely will get it at some point but I'm trying to get a set of hardbacks that are uniform in size. I've got the 50th anniversary edition of the trilogy (lovely one volume edition with the red and black fold out maps), and then the hardbacks of S & G, Arthur, Beowulf, and Kullervo. So I need, Sil, Unfinished Tales, Hobbit, and Húrin. I have the Annotated Hobbit, an illustrated hardcover, and about 5 or 6 paperbacks but I want to get the lovely hardcover with the original dust jacket design. Incanus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 Ah I managed to get the Alan Lee illustrated Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy and Nasmith illustrated Silmarillion in the same hard cover size. Only blemish on the series is the fact The Hobbit and LotR are published by Houghton Mifflin and Silmarillion by Harper Collins so there are different logos on the back of the four books compared to the Sil. Otherwise I managed to get the whole History of Middle-earth in the same black paperbacks with John Howe cover art along with most of the other ancillary material like The Letters, Beowulf Monsters & Critics and Finn & Hengest etc. The few latest releases from Sigrud and Gudrun onwards in hard backs that are alas were not all printed in the same size. But I think I'll manage. Bilbo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 Ah I managed to get the Alan Lee illustrated Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy and Nasmith illustrated Silmarillion in the same hard cover size. Only blemish on the series is the fact The Hobbit and LotR are published by Houghton Mifflin and Silmarillion by Harper Collins so there are different logos on the back of the four books compared to the Sil. Otherwise I managed to get the whole History of Middle-earth in the same black paperbacks with John Howe cover art along with most of the other ancillary material like The Letters, Beowulf Monsters & Critics and Finn & Hengest etc. The few latest releases from Sigrud and Gudrun onwards in hard backs that are alas were not all printed in the same size. But I think I'll manage. Working on my History of ME collection too. Have 1,2,3, and 6 and I think they're the same as the ones you just described and they do match my copies of Letters, and Shipey's Road to ME. I need to focus on filling gaps rather than buying multiple editions of the same book! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,350 Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 I have all the Histories of Middle-Earth, the sil, Hurin, Unfinished Tales, Hobbit both normal and annotated, Lord of the Rings, History of the Hobbit, and the Music of the Lord of the Rings films. Bilbo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted October 25, 2015 Share Posted October 25, 2015 The Annotated Hobbit is so good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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