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Uigher

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:25 pm
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Anyone read this "retelling" of the Lord of the Rings?

http://www.salon.com/books/laura_miller/2011/02/15/last_ringbearer/index.ht
ml

Is it as awful as it sounds?

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:25 pm
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:46:30 -0700, Uigher wrote:

> Anyone read this "retelling" of the Lord of the Rings?
>
> http://www.salon.com/books/laura_miller/2011/02/15/last_ringbearer/index.ht
> ml
>
> Is it as awful as it sounds?
>
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Well, it's a free download in English. Here's the opening paragraph:

"Is there a sight more beautiful than a desert sunset, when the sun, as if
ashamed of its
whitish daytime fierceness, lavishes a bounty of unimaginably tender and
pure colors on its
guests? Especially good are countless shades of purple, which turn dunes
into a charmed sea
– don’t miss those couple of minutes, they will never happen that way
again… Or the last
moment before sunrise, when the first light of dawn interrupts in
mid-movement the staid
minuet of moon shadows on the lacquered hardtops – for those dances are
forever hidden
from the uninitiated, those who prefer day to night... Or the
never-ending tragedy of the
hour when the power of darkness begins to wane and the fuzzy clusters of
the evening
constellations suddenly turn into prickly icy crumbs, which by morning
will rime the
bronzed gravel of the hamada?"

I'll give it a go this weekend and see how far I get. Thanks for the link!


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www.dwimordene.net

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Bill O'Meally

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 12:26 pm
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On 2011-02-16 15:46:30 -0600, Uigher said:

> Anyone read this "retelling" of the Lord of the Rings?
>
> http://www.salon.com/books/laura_miller/2011/02/15/last_ringbearer/index.ht
> ml
>
> Is it as awful as it sounds?
>
> --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news RemoveThis @netfront.net ---

I'm glad one of the commentors (a David Schlaefer) called Ms. Miller
out on her, "Led by an utterly evil disembodied entity who manifests
himself as a gigantic, flaming, pitiless eye..." line:

"The flaming eyeball is Peter Jackson's creation, and only exists in
the films. No snark intended, but it's intellectually lazy to review a
parody or whatever you wish to call it and not even bother to read, or
at least fully read, the work it parodies".
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Bill O'Meally
"Wise Fool" -- Gandalf, _The Two Towers_
(The Wise will remove 'se' to reach me. The Foolish will not!)
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:25 pm
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Good day everyone,

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:26:21 -0600, Bill O'Meally
wrote:

>On 2011-02-16 15:46:30 -0600, Uigher said:
>
>> Anyone read this "retelling" of the Lord of the Rings?
>>
>> http://www.salon.com/books/laura_miller/2011/02/15/last_ringbearer/index.ht
>> ml
>>
>> Is it as awful as it sounds?
>>
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>
>I'm glad one of the commentors (a David Schlaefer) called Ms. Miller
>out on her, "Led by an utterly evil disembodied entity who manifests
>himself as a gigantic, flaming, pitiless eye..." line:
>
>"The flaming eyeball is Peter Jackson's creation, and only exists in
>the films. No snark intended, but it's intellectually lazy to review a
>parody or whatever you wish to call it and not even bother to read, or
>at least fully read, the work it parodies".

Has any of the movie crew, Jackson et al, actually said that the
eyeball was Sauron personified?

As opposed to a grandiose projection of the malice of Sauron, a
magical equivalent of the old Soviet style propaganda loudspeakers
that used to hang from power poles at every street corner, so that no
one need miss the slightest snippet of wisdom from the omniscient
Party.

Tolkien describes the characters feeling the malice of the searching,
lidless eye from afar, so Jackson may have just gone with the don't
tell the audience, don't show the audience, smack them over the head
with it approach.

Walter
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Bill O'Meally

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(Msg. 5) Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 12:10 am
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On 2011-02-18 19:56:38 -0600, Amrodel.RemoveThis@iinet.net.au said:

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> Has any of the movie crew, Jackson et al, actually said that the
> eyeball was Sauron personified?

<snip>

The point is that the author of the article was discussing the *book*
LotR, but described things that were only found in the movie which
Tolkien never wrote or even implied.
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