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Old 11-06-2008, 01:19 PM   #3
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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
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