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I love Tolkien. I think everyone knows this by now. So I want elves to return from the Undying Lands and declare themseves to be real. And when I say elves, I don't mean the long-blonde haired Orlando Bloom styles elves. I mean these guys:
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| If you don't tell me what I want to know, I'll imprison you for a hundred years |
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| We want the treasure, but we hate goblins more. |
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Great answer and great descriptions of the characters. :)
ReplyDelete@Jenni Elyse: Thank you. If I can clear the backlog of books I wam working on I will eventually get to rereading and reviewing The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and the various movies that were made of them.
ReplyDeleteLol, I like how you specified your elf preference!
ReplyDeleteI'm a new follower BTW. Here's my Follow Friday: http://goldiloxandthethreeweres.blogspot.com/
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Hopping through. Sigh...I still need to finish the LOTR series. I think I'd like it more now that I'm a fantasy fan.
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Wow! I too miss the days of nasty elves - nasty creatures that go bump in the night. Now they've been tamed and turned into romantic figures, like Orlando Bloom - he is very cute tho!
ReplyDeleteYES. Another Tolkien fan! One of my recent posts is about elegaic poetry in old english literature and it's influence in King Theoden's speech before the Battle of Helm's Deep in the movie. I also am a huge fan of science books (I love Carl Sagan).
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@Goldilox: I figure if we are going to choose what kind of mythical creature is turning out to be real, we should specify which version of the myth we want.
ReplyDelete@Alison Can Read: The Lord of the Rings starts off slow, much slower than the movies do. BUt that gives it more charm in my opinion. You get a sense of what normal is in Middle-Earth before the war starts. You get a sense of what "normal" hobbits consider to be a grand adventure before Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippen get involved in world-changing events.
ReplyDelete@Julia Rachel Barrett: I like elves that are more than just pretty people. Maybe it is my reading in Welsh mythology that makes me think elves should be otherworldly, alien, and dangerous. And Tolkien captured that. Tolkien's elves will shut out the world, and might kill you just for trespassing.
ReplyDeleteLari: One thing I found interesting about Theoden's speeches in the movies is that so much of them was taken from Eomer and Aragorn. Clearly Tolkien liked Eomer a lot more than Peter Jackson did.
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