Posted on 01/20/2020 7:28:34 AM PST by Kaslin
“I’ve been looking for a hardcopy set of TLoTR,..”
Technically this set is leather and not hardback but it’s only $32 for the whole set!
I look at the shelves of hard-back books I have, and have often told my kids to make sure they read all of them; there’s a wealth of historical information there.
Information that is probably being slowly lost over time. Intentionally, in some cases.
Stories like Lord of the Rings will be around for a long time... at least until some aggrieved snowflake group decides to get offended by it for some reason or other and demands that it get removed.
“with Sean Bean as Beowulf”
Ray Winstone actually.
Thank you... for some reason, I thought it was Sean Bean.
Was he Boromir in the Fellowship of the Rings movie?
“Thank you... for some reason, I thought it was Sean Bean.”
The cartoon character looks a bit like Sean Bean. Many other people have thought it was voiced by Sean Bean too if I am not mistaken.
Sean Bean was Boromir in LotR, yes.
Played it well, as he does in every role.
It was an interesting movie - looked kind of like animation over live actors...
A mutual labor of love, shared between father and son.
Each, an homage to the other.
How beautiful.
Marker
Yes, it was well done. I wouldn’t mind if they made more movies like that. Come to thing of it if someone made a Lord of the Rings movie with that level of animation, it could be excellent. The Ralph Bakshi LOTR animation I never cared for. The 1977 animated Hobbit film was okay in its look for the time, however. Richard Boone voicing Smaug and John Huston voicing Gandalf and Otto Preminger voicing the Elvenking - you can’t beat that!
Seamus Heaney produced a marvelous translation of Beowulf. One vacation, while driving across country, my wife and I took turns reading it to each other as we travelled. It is a story that is crying to be read aloud. One of my most pleasant trips I’ve ever taken. Our copy had the original text on the left side, and the modern English translation on the right. This was doubly fascinating in and of itself.
“...Richard Boone voicing Smaug and John Huston voicing Gandalf and Otto Preminger voicing the Elvenking...”
Damn... THERE’S some names from the past! Haha!!
For an epic story that was written somewhere between 925 and 1235 AD, it’s still amazing.
Ha! Guess what was on one of the showtime channels tonight???
Beowulf.
Coincidence that we were talking about it, and it was on. Haven’t seen it for a few years. Great CGI.
Beowulf actually was on one of the Showtime channels tonight. Just watched it.
Funny that we were talking about it, and there it was.
“Apparently it was required reading for high school students. Not for me though.”
Tolkien was an entirely grass roots reading phenomenon in the ‘60s. There was no way that we would be given something that wasn’t drugery to plod through.
"It's a pity I've run out of bullets, he thought".
-Bored of the Rings
Very early PC games and even before included the LOTR theme. I played a game called Moria on a Vax. Adventure was another popular game.
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