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08-06-2007, 02:31 PM
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Mighty Quill
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Well Tolkien did describe them the way he wanted to, and it did not say that they were say...from the middle east or Africa or the Americas. and since the he was writing about middle earth which was essentially England, I wouldn't think that they would have people of other races in that particular time period, now the Easterlings would probably be a bit darker of skin as the people of Rohan, right? So the same thing would apply to hobbits. Thats just my opinion.
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08-06-2007, 02:37 PM
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Pittodrie Poltergeist
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No no, Middle Earth is meant to be the whole of Eurasia and Africa. Only the north-west of Middle Earth is meant to be Europe and the Shire Britian. (I like to think of the north Farthing being Scotland
 ) There were 'swarthy' Easterlings and I'm sure he talks about black men from Harad, from the 'burning heats' down South.
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08-06-2007, 02:45 PM
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Mighty Quill
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Oh so does that mean that the Men from Numenor were uh like Africans?
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08-06-2007, 02:51 PM
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Mighty Quill
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Oh wait Numenor was uh drowned and it was kinda a magical country so to speak.
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08-06-2007, 02:54 PM
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Pittodrie Poltergeist
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No
 , I just don't believe you can read Tolkien and not believe there were races of men in his story which basically followed the present day arrangement. It was a fictionalised version of our own world. He did not envisage a monochromatic one by any means.
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08-06-2007, 02:57 PM
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Mighty Quill
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I see, I just thought... oh nevermind. I'll go back to smoking my invisible pipe and singing Bilbos bath Song.
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08-13-2007, 01:53 PM
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Sorry this is the thread about the hobit movie ? ;)
Mandrake in the Telegraph yesterday claims that PJ has made it up with New Line and will make the Hobbit with Sir Iam McLuvvie reprising his role as Gandalf. I find it rather depressing. I had got rather excited about seeing a different vision of ME. If it is to be PJ again I almost feel I know whatit will be like already
 . Tolkien is big enough not to be reliant on one director's interpretation...
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08-13-2007, 02:43 PM
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There won't be anything new at all - but that's what audiences want from sequels - exactly the same story with the same actors, but with bigger sets & louder explosions. Personally, I find the idea of a Hobbit movie holds no appeal at all. Now, if we were talking about a Guillermo del Toro 'Smith', or a Terry Gilliam 'Giles'..... |
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