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In Reply to: RE: Your not alone, brother! posted by C.B. on March 17, 2010 at 09:48:13
The heroic quest, the most common theme in literature; some would argue
the only theme in literature; some would argue the only theme in
everything. At the very least, it's a recurring theme. Try reading
Joseph Campbell's "The Hero with a Thousand Faces." Precocious ignorance
is a ludicrous combination; it makes one look like a dumb fuck. Regards,
J.R.
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If I'd insulted you, kid, you'd be in intensive care somewhere. Look
above you; Victor's insulting Auph without provocation. It's what he
does. By the way, did you know that J.R.R. Tolkien held the Rawlinsonian
Chair of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford for twenty years? He was a world famous
philologist and a close friend of C.S. Lewis, but I bet you don't like
or understand the Narnia films either. Go bite some tires or suck some
trailer hitches. Yours,
J.R.
I've even re-traced many of the rooms and buildings that Tolkien inhabited at Oxford.
I just don't think the films (especially the mind-numbing computer-effects) did justice to his books.
But then, most film adaptations of great literature fall short, don't they?
I wrote my Master's thesis on Tolkien many years ago; it was entitled
"An Annotated Glossary of the Proper Names in the Mythopoeic Fiction of
J.R. Tolkien." I thought Jackson did a pretty fair job with an
extremely difficult task and I thought most of the CG stuff was adequate
especially in the opening battle scenes where the One Ring is taken from
Sauron. With the advances in CG, as evidenced in "Avatar", I would think
that a remaking of LotR would be astonishing. Anyway, I thought Jackson
did rather well the primitive technology at hand. But, hey, I'm hardly
an objective observer. I really wanted to like the films, and I did, but
I've been told I'm a cheap date. Regards,
J.R.
Be happy, health care reform is on the way. That means you can afford stronger meds and shock therapy!
NT
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