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Forum: The Movies 08-25-2014, 07:55 PM
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Views: 6,693
Posted By NogrodtheGreat
Here is as list of podcasts: Riddles in the...

Here is as list of podcasts:

Riddles in the Dark (http://www.mythgard.org/activities/riddles-in-the-dark/)

His 'Desolation of Smaug' reaction podcasts are the first couple toward the top: I...
Forum: The Movies 08-24-2014, 10:03 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 6,693
Posted By NogrodtheGreat
Corey Olsen and the Hobbit

Have you guys been able to listen to Corey Olsen's Riddles in the Dark podcast?

It seeks to analyse the films but I find that he most engages in apologetics...for those who have listened to it how...
Forum: The Movies 12-12-2013, 07:32 PM
Replies: 46
Views: 16,721
Posted By NogrodtheGreat
People of diverse opinion ARE welcome on this...

People of diverse opinion ARE welcome on this site and frequently contribute pro-movie points of view. The difference is that more critical points of view are also proffered in response and so a...
Forum: The Movies 12-12-2013, 05:21 AM
Replies: 179
Views: 114,533
Posted By NogrodtheGreat
Yes! I'm also in Australia and now, after having...

Yes! I'm also in Australia and now, after having read several reviews and seen the pandering, simpering praise the movie's gotten on TORN (as if you'd expect any better) I'm reconsidering my Boxing...
Forum: The Books 11-20-2013, 03:57 PM
Replies: 51
Views: 19,232
Posted By NogrodtheGreat
That wasn't the point of his talk. Rather, it was...

That wasn't the point of his talk. Rather, it was to explain why many readers respond to LOTR in a certain way. That's his argument about the "least knowledgeable character" intersecting with an...
Forum: The Books 11-19-2013, 08:56 PM
Replies: 51
Views: 19,232
Posted By NogrodtheGreat
Michael Drout expands on this thesis in the...

Michael Drout expands on this thesis in the following talk

Drout Talk (http://wormtalk.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/how-to-read-tolkien-lecture-from.html)

I think it is a brilliant explanation for...
Forum: The Movies 11-19-2013, 08:51 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 12,201
Posted By NogrodtheGreat
Yes you can call in "pro nature" if you like but...

Yes you can call in "pro nature" if you like but it's still artificial. Natural processes that would otherwise have taken place a disrupted by the Elves for their own philosophical purposes.
Forum: The Movies 11-19-2013, 03:36 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 12,201
Posted By NogrodtheGreat
Celtic Elves? Jackson’s design and the Elves of the films

I just finished reading a fascinating essay by Dimitri Fimi in the collection “Picturing Tolkien”, edited by Janice Bogstad. In the essay Fimi analyses several ways in which external non-Tolkien...
Forum: Chapter-by-Chapter 10-26-2013, 07:02 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 12,976
Posted By NogrodtheGreat
Fascinating

I've always found Aldarion and Erendis a fascinating little tale. Coming from reading the Lord of the Rings, one would never anticipate that Tolkien would've written something even remotely as, well,...
Forum: The Books 09-12-2013, 08:05 AM
Replies: 27
Views: 14,394
Posted By NogrodtheGreat
This is interesting and perhaps correct, but it...

This is interesting and perhaps correct, but it is belied by Sauron's utter patience and meticulousness in his take down of the Numenoreans. In some sense he was supremely rational in the way he went...
Forum: The Books 09-12-2013, 07:57 AM
Replies: 33
Views: 18,045
Posted By NogrodtheGreat
This is a great point. I think the notion of...

This is a great point. I think the notion of 'relating' to characters tries to express a whole gamut of feelings in one concept. On the one hand there is a sense of whether or not a reader engages...
Forum: The Books 09-12-2013, 06:39 AM
Replies: 33
Views: 18,045
Posted By NogrodtheGreat
I agree, aesthetic taste isn't arbitrary but it...

I agree, aesthetic taste isn't arbitrary but it isn't objective either - kinda like morality. Nor would i call you wrong for preferring one to the other. Of course, if taste were completely...
Forum: The Books 09-12-2013, 04:39 AM
Replies: 33
Views: 18,045
Posted By NogrodtheGreat
Well , the notion that aesthetic judgments are...

Well , the notion that aesthetic judgments are completely arbitrary is probably wrong I think. I'm not quite sure I'd go so far as to say some kind of objective (meaning "out in nature") standard for...
Forum: The Books 09-12-2013, 01:07 AM
Replies: 33
Views: 18,045
Posted By NogrodtheGreat
This is an interesting take - I've often felt the...

This is an interesting take - I've often felt the opposite, as thought The Children of Hurin captures the senselessness of human suffering where the Lord of the Rings tends toward "sacralising" it....
Forum: The Books 09-10-2013, 11:38 PM
Replies: 33
Views: 18,045
Posted By NogrodtheGreat
Interesting suggestion...

This is an interesting question - I think due to its comparatively shorter length, and its 'editorialized' publication, it hasn't received quite as much attention as it should. I like to think of the...
Forum: The Books 09-09-2013, 06:51 AM
Replies: 51
Views: 19,232
Posted By NogrodtheGreat
Tumun - I like that :p

Tumun - I like that :p
Forum: The Books 09-08-2013, 09:00 PM
Replies: 51
Views: 19,232
Posted By NogrodtheGreat
hmmm, "nog"? :smokin:

hmmm, "nog"? :smokin:
Forum: The Books 09-08-2013, 08:50 PM
Replies: 51
Views: 19,232
Posted By NogrodtheGreat
hmmm, "nog"? :smokin:

hmmm, "nog"? :smokin:
Forum: The Books 09-08-2013, 05:21 AM
Replies: 51
Views: 19,232
Posted By NogrodtheGreat
Thanks, and also welcome!!

Yes, this is correct. The Red Book of Westmarch, is, as I understand it, that copy of the memoirs of Bilbo, Frodo and Sam that is kept by Sam's family for generations at Undertowers in the Fourth...
Forum: The Books 09-08-2013, 04:41 AM
Replies: 51
Views: 19,232
Posted By NogrodtheGreat
Tolkien the Metafictionist

Hey, first time poster here!

As my first post I thought I'd start a pretentious thread about Tolkien and the notion of 'meta-fiction'. If anyone follows the journal 'Tolkien Studies' you may have...
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