Tolkien 4.0 (A dark and hungry sea lion arises)

[Ser Drewy]

Also, goddamit, but I'd willingly join with Mordor to see Tolkien's notes on James Joyce. 

[Ran]

12 hours ago, Ser Drewy said:

Yeah, Carpenter does not come out of it looking good.

I feel like the fact that Carpenter was very open about his point of view in these interviews seems to go against the idea that the biography is some sort of secret character assassination, especially if no one really ever took it that way. And the claim that a biography tells you a lot about the biographer is hardly the shocking revelation that it's presented as. Of course it is.

As to Letters, CT worked with Carpenter on it, as is explicitly acknowledged on the cover and has led him to being listed as co-editor in bibliographic sources, and that came out years after Carpenter's biography... so how much animus towards Carpenter could there really have been from CT's side? If he really thought the biography was a complete botch, why was he assisting Carpenter?

 

Edited April 5 by Ran

[Zorral]

On 4/1/2021 at 5:36 AM, Ser Drewy said:

That is trippy, to say the least. 

Article about it in the Guardian, with links to the YouTubes.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/05/soviet-tv-version-lord-of-the-rings-rediscovered-after-30-years

 

[The Marquis de Leech]

I've taken the liberty of compiling the Tom Bombadil scenes from the Soviet adaptation, and adding them to the Swedish and Finnish versions, to create a quarter of an hour of adapted (non-English-language) Tom:

The Complete Tom Bombadil: 1971-1993