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davem · 11-06-2008, 01:19 PM

The poster (2nd link) was the item the really touched a chord with me. Its a different, now almost 'alien' take on Middle-earth. I suppose that 'hippy-trippy' take died almost at exactly the time Tolkien himself did, & was finished off with the publication of works like UT & HoM-e. Now we're all Tolkien 'scholars' rather than Hobbits & Elves....Its very much a Roger Garland-ish Middle-earth & one that, strangely enough, as I get older I feel an increasing pull toward... http://www.imagenetion.net/matrix/tolkien41.htm

11-06-2008, 01:19 PM	#3
davem Illustrious Ulair Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: In the home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names,and impossible loyalties Posts: 4,240	The poster (2nd link) was the item the really touched a chord with me. Its a different, now almost 'alien' take on Middle-earth. I suppose that 'hippy-trippy' take died almost at exactly the time Tolkien himself did, & was finished off with the publication of works like UT & HoM-e. Now we're all Tolkien 'scholars' rather than Hobbits & Elves....Its very much a Roger Garland-ish Middle-earth & one that, strangely enough, as I get older I feel an increasing pull toward... http://www.imagenetion.net/matrix/tolkien41.htm __________________ “Everything was an object. If you killed a dwarf you could use it as a weapon – it was no different to other large heavy objects."