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Knarl
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Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 11:53 pm Post subject:
Anyone read the new Tolkien book? Subject description: The Children of Huron |
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I want to get it, but I've heard mixed reviews about it, and I'm already in the middle of another book that I want to finish, as well as finishing out my last semester of college.
So has anyone here read it at all? Or is anyone currently reading it?
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Dao Jones
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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 12:02 am Post subject:
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He's pretty prolific for a dead guy.
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breakbeatz2
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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:08 am Post subject:
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I'll be reading it soon.
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Knarl
You're Doomed
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Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:34 am Post subject:
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Dao Jones wrote: | He's pretty prolific for a dead guy. |
Yeah, when I heard there was a new Tolkien book, I was like..."wait, he is dead, right???"
I guess his son has spent quite some time putting this story together. I think CNN news said it took around 30 years to compile completely.
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 4:25 am Post subject:
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I've been wanting to read this book to, sounds like my kind of book and I have only heard of good reviews of it.....
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Mimes
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 2:32 pm Post subject:
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i love Tolkien books. LOTR ftw. neone wanna inform me on what exactly this book is about.
On the topic of LOTR i wish they would make a "The Hobbit" movie.... the other 3 were pretty good.
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Meegz ?
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 4:55 pm Post subject:
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return of mimes wrote: | i love Tolkien books. LOTR ftw. neone wanna inform me on what exactly this book is about.
On the topic of LOTR i wish they would make a "The Hobbit" movie.... the other 3 were pretty good. |
They did, it was animated, and sadly I have yet to be able to find it on dvd ><
They also made a Fellowship of the Ring animated version too. Yet again, haven't been able to find it on dvd...
Dao Jones wrote: | He's pretty prolific for a dead guy. |
That was my first thought when I saw the thread title, lol...
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oleo79
Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 1092 BNet Acct/Realm: USWest nonladder + ladder
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Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 8:30 pm Post subject:
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if it's anything like The Silmarillion, it wil be comparable to reading the book of Genesis combined with War and Peace
Hopefully it's more of a tale than a history/genealogy.
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enjoi353
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:02 am Post subject:
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Meegz ? wrote: | return of mimes wrote: | i love Tolkien books. LOTR ftw. neone wanna inform me on what exactly this book is about.
On the topic of LOTR i wish they would make a "The Hobbit" movie.... the other 3 were pretty good. |
They did, it was animated, and sadly I have yet to be able to find it on dvd ><
They also made a Fellowship of the Ring animated version too. Yet again, haven't been able to find it on dvd...
Dao Jones wrote: | He's pretty prolific for a dead guy. |
That was my first thought when I saw the thread title, lol... |
there's animated movies for all of the LOTR books and the hobbit
shortly after LOTR:fotr came out in theaters, they played all 4 of the animated movies on tv iirc
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Mimes
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 3:00 pm Post subject:
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well i did not know there were animated moveis of all the LOTR books, but i was talking about movies like the non-animated that is.
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mike_roch
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 3:12 pm Post subject:
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Well there was a hobbit and all three of them combined into one. I had the trilogy one. I found it in a $5.50 bin at wal-mart.
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Dao Jones
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 6:57 pm Post subject:
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Mike_Roch wrote: | Well there was a hobbit and all three of them combined into one. I had the trilogy one. I found it in a $5.50 bin at wal-mart. |
And it's god friggin' awful. Ralph Bakshi directed, and he must have been freebasing airplane glue and licking toads the entire time. The elves of Mirkwood (where Legolas comes from) are blue in the cartoon. Blue. Like giant, pointy-eared Smurfs. It's hilariously bad. The animation is truly in the style of the awesomely cheap 70s-80s kids cartoons.
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Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 8:13 pm Post subject:
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Mike_Roch wrote: | Well there was a hobbit and all three of them combined into one. I had the trilogy one. I found it in a $5.50 bin at wal-mart. |
OMG you bin'd it for 5.50?!?
Walmart was a NEWB, setting a BIN too quickly...
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Meegz ?
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 1:18 pm Post subject:
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Dao Jones wrote: | Mike_Roch wrote: | Well there was a hobbit and all three of them combined into one. I had the trilogy one. I found it in a $5.50 bin at wal-mart. |
And it's god friggin' awful. Ralph Bakshi directed, and he must have been freebasing airplane glue and licking toads the entire time. The elves of Mirkwood (where Legolas comes from) are blue in the cartoon. Blue. Like giant, pointy-eared Smurfs. It's hilariously bad. The animation is truly in the style of the awesomely cheap 70s-80s kids cartoons. |
VOUCHE!
That sh*t is on crack! I'm pretty sure there was some mescaline in there too though...I mean damn...
Although it was hilariously bad, I did enjoy it as a kid, quite a bit in fact. Although the dragon in the Hobbit scared the bejeezus out of me, haha. I like super-cheap 70/80's cartoons. Voltron...Thundercats...GI-Joe....Transformers...Love em all
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Dao Jones
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 5:06 pm Post subject:
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Meegz ? wrote: |
Although it was hilariously bad, I did enjoy it as a kid, quite a bit in fact. Although the dragon in the Hobbit scared the bejeezus out of me, haha. |
Oh, absolutely. I actually went back as an adult and bought The Hobbit again. Watched it, was vaguely sad for my lost childhood (it's easy to like this movie when you're too young to know better).
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