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Na Vedui
Rohan
Nov 21 2013, 10:32pm
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... what will happen to the Middle-earth stories a hundred or two or three hundred years from now. Various goalposts will have moved: copyright issues will have passed or changed, English and other languages into which LOTR is translated- assuming they are still even spoken - will have changed such that the language of the book and the films is no longer current; technology will have changed (or collapsed) and if films are still being made, it will be in ways presently unimaginable. And so on. It could go several ways - either the story will pass into being one of those old-fashioned things that people may just have heard of but nobody much reads or bothers with. Or it could (like Jane Austen's works) have a long life as a classic, with the text still popular and adaptations more or less firmly rooted in the text. Or it could survive (with or without the original texts being extant) as a mythology, adapting and evolving in a protean way as has happened with the Arthurian matter or the legend of Robin Hood. I hope it will survive. I have a picture in my mind of a post-apocalyptic scene a long way into the future: a mixed group of ragged people sitting round a fire, raptly intent on a storyteller telling (maybe in English, maybe not), a version of the tale of the Ring...
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TORn gets the low-down on how Richard Armitage's inner Tolkien purist ticks
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News from Bree
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Nov 19 2013, 1:28pm
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These passages are interesting in light of the Purist vs Adaptist question
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Brethil
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Nov 20 2013, 10:37pm
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Great post
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acheron
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Nov 21 2013, 1:26pm
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Interesting definition of “purism”
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Riven Delve
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Nov 21 2013, 1:36pm
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Bomby loves when peeps
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Bombadil
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Nov 21 2013, 7:28pm
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The funny part is, Bomby
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Riven Delve
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Nov 22 2013, 1:04pm
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OR for a certain Dwarf King to round the corner....
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Brethil
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Nov 22 2013, 5:21pm
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As to waiting for a certain Dwarf king...
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Riven Delve
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Nov 22 2013, 6:23pm
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Too late!
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Kim
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Nov 22 2013, 10:25pm
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(*arriving out of breath*) Did I miss the ambush!
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Brethil
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Nov 22 2013, 10:35pm
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Oh dear
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Riven Delve
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Nov 22 2013, 11:41pm
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*applause*
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Eruvandi
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Nov 21 2013, 7:41pm
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*bows modestly*
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Riven Delve
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Nov 22 2013, 1:41pm
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Really, can there *be* a better metaphor?
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Brethil
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Nov 21 2013, 8:30pm
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Well, maybe...
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Riven Delve
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Nov 22 2013, 1:33pm
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Archetypes and allegory
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Brethil
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Nov 22 2013, 5:42pm
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Very good point, Brethil!
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Riven Delve
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Nov 22 2013, 6:42pm
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Quite right R-D!
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Brethil
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Nov 22 2013, 10:14pm
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Very interesting conversation Brethil and R-D
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Kim
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Nov 22 2013, 10:27pm
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You're most welcome! :) //
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Riven Delve
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Nov 22 2013, 11:43pm
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Another excellent interview with Armitage
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malickfan
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Nov 21 2013, 8:31pm
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I would love to know
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Na Vedui
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Nov 21 2013, 10:32pm
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LOL!
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entmaiden
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Nov 21 2013, 11:15pm
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I must look for that anthology
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Na Vedui
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Nov 21 2013, 11:25pm
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Not all Tolkien-related
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entmaiden
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Nov 22 2013, 12:23am
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Verlyn Flieger wrote a lovely short story
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entmaiden
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Nov 21 2013, 10:26pm
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In synch.
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Na Vedui
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Nov 21 2013, 10:39pm
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HEY!
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Magpie
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Nov 22 2013, 2:07am
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That was one of the most fun weekends I've had
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entmaiden
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Nov 22 2013, 1:38pm
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I remember...
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Magpie
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Nov 22 2013, 11:51pm
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I just wrote greendragon a 'fan letter' :-)
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Magpie
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Nov 21 2013, 11:45pm
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Good to see you Magpie!
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Brethil
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Nov 22 2013, 3:33am
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*warm hug*
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grammaboodawg
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Nov 22 2013, 10:36am
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I like his idea of thinking of these storeis as folktales.
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Dame Ioreth
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Nov 22 2013, 12:32am
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*exchanges fancy club handshake with Dame Ioreth*
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Magpie
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Nov 22 2013, 1:56am
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Thank you for the fancy handshake!
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Dame Ioreth
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Nov 22 2013, 2:54am
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re: Bettelheim
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Magpie
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Nov 22 2013, 3:06am
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Oh my... I'm so grateful for his observation
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grammaboodawg
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Nov 22 2013, 10:26am
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I was thinking the same thing grammaboodawg
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Dame Ioreth
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Nov 22 2013, 5:33pm
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