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Pervinca Took · 10-26-2012, 10:27 AM

In no medium at all, Inziladun? How about radio?

Inziladun · 10-26-2012, 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Pervinca Took

In no medium at all, Inziladun? How about radio?

That'd be better, as long as it's something to require the use of imagination. I still prefer the books though. Why tamper with it, if it isn't broken?

Pervinca Took · 10-26-2012, 11:58 AM

For me, the reason is in what Tolkien called the "bloom" of a book, that you only get on a first reading. I got it on my second reading, too. But I can't enjoy the book again in quite the way a new reader does (although I enjoy it in other ways). A really good dramatisation can make me feel that sense of wonder again. The BBC radio dramatisation did that, and it's also extremely faithful to the book. So it doesn't try to mend what isn't broken.

Inziladun · 10-26-2012, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Pervinca Took

For me, the reason is in what Tolkien called the "bloom" of a book, that you only get on a first reading. I got it on my second reading, too. But I can't enjoy the book again in quite the way a new reader does (although I enjoy it in other ways). A really good dramatisation can make me feel that sense of wonder again. The BBC radio dramatisation did that, and it's also extremely faithful to the book. So it doesn't try to mend what isn't broken.

Fair enough. I don't feel the need personally for any other media versions of the books, but to each his own. Radio drama at least doesn't tend to play to perceived mass market desires that result in drastic changes to the basic story.

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10-26-2012, 11:58 AM	#3
Pervinca Took Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Treetops, C/O Great Smials Posts: 5,035	For me, the reason is in what Tolkien called the "bloom" of a book, that you only get on a first reading. I got it on my second reading, too. But I can't enjoy the book again in quite the way a new reader does (although I enjoy it in other ways). A really good dramatisation can make me feel that sense of wonder again. The BBC radio dramatisation did that, and it's also extremely faithful to the book. So it doesn't try to mend what isn't broken. __________________ "Sit by the firelight's glow; tell us an old tale we know. Tell of adventures strange and rare; never to change, ever to share! Stories we tell will cast their spell, now and for always."