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08-08-2004, 03:55 PM
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Hungry Ghoul
Join Date: Jun 2000
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I don't really care about the languages, so I'm ok with that list.
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08-14-2004, 06:27 PM
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Regal Dwarven Shade
Join Date: Jan 2002
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I wanted to bump this up and politely inquire how Child was progressing with The Real List.
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08-14-2004, 07:00 PM
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Beholder of the Mists
Join Date: Dec 2002
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Interesting list, interesting order, and I have to agree that it is way too movie-centric.
I have to admit though that I really am not familiar with many of the names on the list. Mainly just the writers and scholars of Tolkien's works. I think though that he tried to come up with a list of the people who would have been mentioned the most times in a Biography of Tolkien and LOTR. And I think that if you look at it from that angle then many of the choices make sense. But, even though PJ would have been talked about a lot, and I guess that he is the one who I should owe my Tolkien fandom too because of the films, I still don't think that he belongs at number one.
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08-14-2004, 08:34 PM
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Shade of Carn Dūm
Join Date: Nov 2003
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Ah, the flaming...
Personally, I'd have liked to see Christopher Tolkien higher up on the list. It can't have been an easy task, sifting through his father's notes.
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08-14-2004, 09:43 PM
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Spirit of the Lonely Star
Join Date: Mar 2002
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 OK, OK....I will try and get something up for the first list: that of those sources that influenced Tolkien. I have been thinking about that for a while.
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08-14-2004, 11:49 PM
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A Northern Soul
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Valinor
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Righto, Saraphim. Personally, I cannot accept anyone but Christopher Tolkien in the number one slot. Without The Silmarillion and numerous subsequent publications he has provided, Tolkien's world would be much thinner - the bits and pieces of depth are hinted at in the tales of the Third Age, but we would have no idea just how deep, thorough, and ultimately enchanting Arda is.
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