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dernwyn
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Feb 20 2007, 3:56pm
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The cover of the original Grotta bio!
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That's one of the Hildebrandts that I'm actually fond of! The cover of my 1992 edition of that book replaced that with "JRR Tolkien" spelled out in tree-trunks. My edition does have 15 other Hildebrandts located throughout; do you know if the original had any, other than on the cover?
The bio itself has some nice details not found in Carpenter's.
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dernwyn
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Feb 20 2007, 4:07pm
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"Journey in the Dark" is the chapter title
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but that painting really should be titled "Attack of the Wargs", since that's what's happening (the Wargs being located at the viewer's standpoint...hmm, maybe the Hildebrandts were saying something about those who don't care for their pics?).
I like "Unexpected Party" also! The Dwarves playing their instruments are not done comically, and even their Bilbo, who's sitting there downcast, overwhelmed by what's been happening.
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dernwyn
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Feb 22 2007, 4:56am
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I took a look through the reviews! Seems like either people didn't realize that when reading it, they must understand that it was written before the Sil came out and when Tolkien's family had already selected an official biographer; or they didn't care for the Hildebrandt collection; or they knew how old it was and complained that it had not been updated with Sil information.
It does have its innacuracies, but I've found it to be a pleasurable companion to the Carpenter bio!
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a.s.
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Feb 22 2007, 12:17pm
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I took a look through the reviews! Seems like either people didn't realize that when reading it, they must understand that it was written before the Sil came out and when Tolkien's family had already selected an official biographer; or they didn't care for the Hildebrandt collection; or they knew how old it was and complained that it had not been updated with Sil information. Well, maybe if they ordered it online without looking through the pages, but luckily I bought mine on the sale table at B&N (one year in the post Christmas sale markdowns...I got it for I think $2!) and it is clearly "updated" in the sense that it has an epilogue discussing the fact that "in 1977 Tolkien published the Sil" etc. A short chapter on the Sil is included in this edition (the one I bought). I had read it years ago, pre Epilogue date. I think it was the first bio I ever read of Tolkien, except for maybe Carpenter's "The Inklings".
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The Lost Mod Power: An Elegy (with apologies to Wordsworth)
What though the mod power which was once so bright
Be now FOREVER taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the stats, of glory in the power,
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind.
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N.E. Brigand
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Feb 23 2007, 11:23pm
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I think the reviewer meant that people would get to see the author as a real person not just the creator of a beloved tale, there having been I think only one poor (and little-read? I'm thinking of William Ready's book) full-length biography of Tolkien to date when Grotta-Kurska's work appeared.
I note that the cover of the biography promises to "breathe[] life into J.R.R. Tolkien." That strikes me as odd. If you don't find LotR lively enough, I hardly think that accounts of languages learned, papers graded and deadlines missed are going to change your views.
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N.E. Brigand
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Feb 23 2007, 11:44pm
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...The normally heavy front plane is broken instead by a “triangle” of light, contrasting nicely by 2 triangles of shadow adding great visual interest (as contrast will).... "The Siege of Minas Tirith" (1977) This one is OK. It doesn’t have a heavy front plane, which is good for me...
I like that explanation, which clarifies my dissatisfaction with the BH's use of a shadowed foreground.
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