Your Daily Tolkien Ping! Coming from many sources, these articles cover many aspects of Tolkien and his literary works. If anyone would like for me to ping them directly when I post articles such as this let me know. Enjoy!
Posted on 12/23/2002 5:01:00 AM PST by JameRetief
Your Daily Tolkien Ping! Coming from many sources, these articles cover many aspects of Tolkien and his literary works. If anyone would like for me to ping them directly when I post articles such as this let me know. Enjoy!
21) The Merchants of Middle-earth by Michael Martinez
22) Dear Gandalf ... by Michael Martinez
23) Why did Bilbo choose Frodo as his heir? by Ron Kittle
24) Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the wargs of fandom! by Michael Martinez
25) Tolkien and Chivalry by Scott Farrell
 Ring Ping!! |
I will be posting his articles from the beginning which will allow everyone a chance to read along if they so choose. He chose to read The Silmarillion first followed by The Hobbit and finally Lord Of The Rings. By posting his articles twice a week, this pace will finish with Return Of The King at about the same time that the final movie is released next year.
His pace is approximately 1 or 2 chapters per article and if you would like to reread the books (or even read for the first time if you are also a Tolkien Virgin) this would be a great way to do so. These running commentary threads could be great for discussions on the various chapters and could be a great place for people to ask questions about anything they are curious about.
The pacing will allow you the weekends to read the chapter or two being discussed on Monday, and the rest of the week for the chapter or two discussed on Friday.
Next Monday, we will begin The Silmarillion, starting with The Ainulindalë. This will give everyone a week to prepare and also give everyone the time to spend with their families for the Holidays. I will also post a reminder at the end of this week.
(raising my hand) Thank you, Professor. See you at the start of next term!
Also, after seeing this movie--I admit that this woman could steal the heart of any man.
I second that motion. If I could tell Tolkien one thing to change about LOTR, is for Aragorn to ditch the elf girl for the REAL woman Eowyn. ;-)
Their response?
"Daaaaaaaaaaddddyyyy! The elf-girl saw Aragorn first!"
I can't get out of my head what one critic said of Tyler:
"She looks like she is trapped in an Australian douche commercial."
Whoa! Give us the details!
"However, when it comes to understanding Beowulf as a work of literature, there is one publication that stands out. In 1936, the Oxford scholar and teacher J.R.R. Tolkien published an epoch-making paper entitled "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" which took for granted the poem's integrity and distinction as a work of art and proceeded to show in what this integrity and distinction inhered. He assumed that the poet had felt his way through the inherited material - the fabulous elements and the traditional accounts of an heroic past - and by a combination of creative intuition and conscious structuring had arrived at a unity of effect and a balanced order. He assumed, in other words, that the Beowulf poet was an imaginative writer rather than some kind of back-formation derived from nineteenth-century folklore and philology. Tolkien's brilliant literary treatment changed the way the poem was valued and initiated a new era - and new terms - of appreciation"
I apologise if you've had this inflicted on you before.
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