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Tolkien’s own annotated map newly discovered loose inside copy of LOTR
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| 10/23/15
| MrCere
Posted on 10/23/2015 10:31:03 PM PDT by Kartographer
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To: Kartographer
You can see my interest!
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posted on
10/23/2015 10:32:21 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Kartographer
LOTR has always been one of my favorites. Since I was very young...a long time ago.
I look at those maps and see the story again.
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posted on
10/23/2015 10:36:45 PM PDT
by
berdie
To: Kartographer
To: Kartographer
Whoever owns that owns.... Well, that.
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posted on
10/23/2015 10:58:35 PM PDT
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Bullish
(Face it, insanity is just not presidential.)
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posted on
10/23/2015 11:31:28 PM PDT
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SWAMP-C1PHER
(HOMINIS OECONOMICUM CIVITATIS)
To: Bullish
Thanks, needed that laugh!
To: Kartographer
Pauline Baynes was by far his favorite illustrator for The Lord of the Rings, as he remarked to son Christopher in one of his letters when the two of them were working on the map.
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posted on
10/23/2015 11:50:14 PM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(Reading this tagline over an extended period of time causes cancer.)
To: Kartographer
To: berdie
The books were amazing, I read all of them years ago, the movies though were absolute garbage, I could barely get through the first two and that was it for me. That idiot Elijah Wood was just utterly miscast “Oh Saaaam” ugh, plus I think this was something that really couldn’t be made into a movie, these were books that required the imagination of the reader, the movies did away with that.
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posted on
10/24/2015 12:37:13 AM PDT
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(B. Hussein Obama: 20 acts of Treason and counting.)
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Elijah Wood was my one criticism of the movies. Reading the books, Frodo was self-doubting but tough. Watching the movies, Frodo was a complete whimp with perpetually watering eyes.
Otherwise, I thought they were well done if too short.
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posted on
10/24/2015 12:42:33 AM PDT
by
Textide
(Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Most movies do away with imagination, imho. In most cases the books were better.
The movies, for what they were, weren’t too bad.
disclaimer: I still prefer my own imagination and the original books.
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posted on
10/24/2015 12:44:41 AM PDT
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berdie
To: Kartographer
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posted on
10/24/2015 1:52:15 AM PDT
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Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: GrandJediMasterYoda; Textide
I agree that the casting of Elijah Wood was a poor choice. Not that he isn’t an okay actor, but he did not suit the role.
On the other hand, the casting for Elrond and Eomer, among others, was outstanding. My reading of Elrond, going back to his first appearance in the “Silmarillion,” is enriched now that I picture him resembling the young Sam Neill.
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posted on
10/24/2015 4:05:00 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Why can't [number][adjective][noun] marry?)
To: Kartographer
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posted on
10/24/2015 4:05:31 AM PDT
by
Engraved-on-His-hands
(Conservative 2016!! The Dole, H.W. Bush, McCain, Romney experiment has failed.)
To: Kartographer
Mordor is Turkey and the Ottoman Muslims. Harad, Khand, and Haradwaith is Africa - - more Muslims.
The Shire was England (Late Middle Ages). The Elves were Nordic. The Dwarves were Hebrew.
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posted on
10/24/2015 4:07:54 AM PDT
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SkyPilot
("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
To: Kartographer
Fitting, given your FR handle Kart!!
I would welcome a new LedZep song based on this new discovery as well
To: SkyPilot
I thought Tolkien wrote with WW2 in mind. Mostly Nazi influence.
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