I am sure many of you are aware of the excellent site The Tolkien Library run by Pieter Collier. It is a great way to keep up with print news regarding JRRT and Middle-earth. They have a feature article which came out over the weekend titled BEST TOLKIEN BOOKS OF 2007. Among the books featured was The Frodo Franchise by Kristin Thompson.
The Collier site says this about the Thompson book:
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This is one of the books that I enjoyed a lot. It was even hard to put down and I had to read it until the end before I could let it go. On the inside flap of the book The Frodo Franchise, to be published on the 1st of August 2007, we read these words by Tom Shippey and this is exactly how I feel about this book:
"This is the best all-around view of the Tolkien phenomenon. Thompson understands the books, she understands the movies--she also understands the money and the franchising. Best of all, she understands the people. Thompson offers cultural criticism of the highest order, examining one of the most significant shifts in contemporary popular media." It is a must read for any Tolkien fans. I have always been very much against the movie adaptions, but now have changed my view almost completely - thanks Chrisitine Thompson! Read an interview with the author here.
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The part I felt was worth noting was the sentence near the end where the author says they were
"very much against the movie adaptions, but now have changed my view almost completely..."
Looks like the Purist camp has a major defection and the film buffs have gained a well known convert.