Magical Stamps

[TragicMonkey]

This was the point where you were supposed to take a break, roll up a really fat doobie, and read Bored of the Rings instead.

Whether or not you made it back to Tolkien was the big step.

Well, since I read LoTR when I was seven years old, that really wasn't an option. I was advanced in geekiness, but not in other areas!

 

[quadraginta]

Well, since I read LoTR when I was seven years old, that really wasn't an option. I was advanced in geekiness, but not in other areas!

It's never too late.

 

[Rolfe]

I enjoyed the Silmarillion. It was "Unfinished Tales" I gave up on.

Most aptly-named book in the catalogue.

Rolfe.

 

[Mark6]

I read "The Hobbit" in school.

Then I read LoTR in one marathon session (I think it took 20 hours) and never read it again.

 

[AvalonXQ]

I object to using photographs of movie characters and presenting them as book characters. Use book illustrations or provide fresh illustrations, or admit that it's the movie (not the book) that you're honoring.

 

[Mirrorglass]

I object to using photographs of movie characters and presenting them as book characters. Use book illustrations or provide fresh illustrations, or admit that it's the movie (not the book) that you're honoring.

I don't really see the logic, here. Unless the author of the book did the illustrations themselves, they aren't really any more the real book characters as the actors portraying them are.

 

[AvalonXQ]

I don't really see the logic, here. Unless the author of the book did the illustrations themselves, they aren't really any more the real book characters as the actors portraying them are.

It's a specific hostility to people believing that a movie based on a book is a proper substitute for a book.
The movie character is not the same as the book character, and a photograph of a movie character is not the same as an illustration of the book character.
So, yes, a drawing of a book character (even done after the fact) is a depiction of the book character in a way that a photograph of an actor portraying the film (or even stage) version of the character is not.

 

[Beerina]

Indeed. For my generation, the population was long divided into four parts, listed below in order of increasing geekiness:

1. Those who had read nothing of Tolkien
2. Those who had read "The Hobbit" only
3. Those who had read "The Lord of the Rings"
4. Those who had read "The Silmarillion"

By the time you got to the last group you were down to about a hundred people, all of whom were very geeky indeed.

 

[AvalonXQ]

Indeed. For my generation, the population was long divided into four parts, listed below in order of increasing geekiness:

1. Those who had read nothing of Tolkien
2. Those who had read "The Hobbit" only
3. Those who had read "The Lord of the Rings"
4. Those who had read "The Silmarillion"

By the time you got to the last group you were down to about a hundred people, all of whom were very geeky indeed.

Just to prove how geeky: this is the first time in recorded history that that list was related in a language other than Elvish.

 

[PhantomWolf]

I enjoyed the Silmarillion. It was "Unfinished Tales" I gave up on.

Most aptly-named book in the catalogue.

Rolfe.

It took me 2 days to read The Hobbit.
It took me 3 weeks to read Lord of the Rings.
It took me 6 months to read The Silmarillion.
I didn't even try Unfinished Tales.