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"santosh" <santosh.k83@gmail.com> wrote in message news:fquoif$9dj$1@registered.motzarella.org... > Hi all, > > I have finished reading The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings. Enjoyed > them immensely. > > But now I'm a bit lost as to which book to take up next from Tolkien's > vast body on Middle Earth. Specifically I'm confused as to which to > read next from the three books: Unfinished Tales     

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Author: Gregory Hernandez
Date: Mar 8, 2008 12:28

santosh wrote: Hi all, I have finished reading The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings. Enjoyed them immensely. But now I'm a bit lost as to which book to take up next from Tolkien's vast body on Middle Earth. Specifically I'm confused as to which to read next from the three books: Unfinished Tales, History Of Middle Earth or The Silmarillion. Does anyone have any opinion
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On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:45:58 GMT, "William Cloud Hicklin" <icelofangeln@mindspring.com> wrote: >On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:10:25 -0400, Paul S. Person ><psperson@ix.netscom.com.invalid> wrote: > >> On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 16:12:23 GMT, "William Cloud Hicklin" >> <icelofangeln@mindspring.com> wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 03:14:41 -0400, Graham Lockwood >>> <g-ng_@_yahoogroups.com> wrote:     

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Author: Jamie Armstrong
Date: Mar 8, 2008 11:39

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 05:24:26 GMT, Graham Lockwood <g-ng_@_yahoogroups.com> wrote: Paul S. Person wrote: {snip} Since neither Hobbits, nor Elves, nor Maiar, nor Balrogs, nor Rings exist in our world, I would call them "nonexistent", and infer that no such retellling is possible. The problem isn't that LotR is set in an (idealized) past, the problem is that it is set in
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On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:24:42 GMT, Graham Lockwood <g-ng_@_yahoogroups.com> wrote: >Paul S. Person wrote: >{snip} >> Actually, that's not entirely true: further reflection suggests that >> Gandalf's exit from the world and reinsertion by Eru could be >> considered "supernatural" in that the nature of the world in LotR (or >> for JRRT's work more generally) does not normally involve the direct     

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Author: Paul S. Person
Date: Jul 23, 2007 10:34

? "Paul S. Person" <psperson@ix.netscom.com.invalid> ?????? ??? ?????? news:ia0q93p1ud1rtn9ul3ct01ivtrt5ukso1k@4ax.com... On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:09:29 GMT, Graham Lockwood <g-ng_@_yahoogroups.com> wrote: Dirk Thierbach wrote: Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de> wrote: {snip} etc. And just like in the book, the story should progress from the ordinary to the extraordinary
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Paul S. Person wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:09:29 GMT, Graham Lockwood {snip} >> I dunno, I think it would be POSSIBLE to make a decent LotR-based modern >> story that STARTED OUT mundane and then began to introduce more and more >> supernatural aspects. After all, LotR itself starts out pretty mundane. >> In fact, Book 1 has very little that is supernatural other than a couple >> uses     

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Author: Paul S. Person
Date: Jul 23, 2007 10:23

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:09:29 GMT, Graham Lockwood <g-ng_@_yahoogroups.com> wrote: Dirk Thierbach wrote: Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de> wrote: {snip} etc. And just like in the book, the story should progress from the ordinary to the extraordinary, But what do you take as extraordinary, if you're restricted to the ordinary in a modern setting? {snip} I dunno
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Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de> wrote: > Dirk Thierbach wrote: > Hmmm... "Shakespeare created characters and developments, Tolkien > created worlds and myths." This quote (I forget who is being quoted) was > printed on the flap of the German "Silmarillion" for a long time. It's not on mine, unfortunately, but I guess whoever said this has a point :-) > I agree that the "worlds" part     

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Author: Paul S. Person
Date: Jul 21, 2007 10:30

Dirk Thierbach wrote: IMHO, such a consciously modernized setting might have made a better LoTR movie. Anybody care to speculate? I think it's very hard to move LotR into a new setting without essentially creating something new. It works well with Shakespeare, because an important part of his plays are interactions between humans who, while not really archetypes, still represent
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Author: Tzortzakakis Dimitrios
Date: Jul 17, 2007 12:12

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Author: Graham Lockwood
Date: Jul 17, 2007 11:35

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Author: Paul S. Person
Date: Jul 17, 2007 10:56

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Author: Dirk Thierbach
Date: Jul 17, 2007 02:16

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Author: Linards Ticmanis
Date: Jul 16, 2007 14:05

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