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10-04-2004 02:56 PM ET (US)
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The Bible just isn't as bloodthirsty as Lord of the Rings Given that I'm German and read Lord of the Rings 13 times as a child, this comes as no surprise to me. In a national project that mirrored the BBC's The Big Read, the German public placed the Lord of the Rings at the top of their most loved literature. The list of prized publications, in which the Bible ranked second, offers a glimpse into a German public which, according to some, is desperate to escape its "current air of pessimism." Home
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05-24-2004 10:16 PM ET (US)
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"Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a Hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."Tolkien's hole up for sale. (God, I've always wanted to write that...) Home
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04-21-2004 08:33 PM ET (US)
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Desperate to Escape Your Weird Survivalistish Family?Write a bad fantasy book. Home
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12-29-2003 09:23 AM ET (US)
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You better get Jonas writing, KK....
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12-29-2003 08:59 AM ET (US)
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Those crazy homeschoolers, eh? So backward, so out of touch, so inbred and kooky. Who woulda thunk...
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12-28-2003 11:11 PM ET (US)
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Only in AmericaA teenager and his recluse family strike it big with a fantasy bestseller. I want to be bitter and cynical about this, but ah hell, good for them. Home
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12-16-2003 01:17 AM ET (US)
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Article raises an interesting point regarding the modernist underpinnings of Tolkien’s book, but I begin to wonder about the analysis when the writer starts using phrases like “satirical whimsy” to describe the party at the start of the book. Last time I checked not much satire in the Lord of the Rings, at all...
Also a bit of a dodgy interpretation of the War’s influence on the book. Tolkien himself in his introduction goes to some lengths to discourage such a notion.
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12-15-2003 09:14 PM ET (US)
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Did Peter Jackson Get LOTR Wrong?The Scotsman on Tolkien's classic. Home
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11-16-2003 08:52 PM ET (US)
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Are Hobbits the New Crack?Is Tolkien too popular for his own good? I suspect he'd say "Why, my dear fellow, yes!" Home
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11-03-2003 09:57 PM ET (US)
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"The Wen on the Arse of Fantasy Literature"Weird Fiction uberkind China Miévelle goes after Tolkien. Home
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09-16-2003 09:55 PM ET (US)
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It's all Robert Jordan's fault. Damn you Moraine Sedai!
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09-15-2003 09:36 PM ET (US)
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Did Lord of the Rings Ruin Fantasy?Or did the writers? (Naw, it was the advent of the d20. Damn you Gary Gygax!) Home
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