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Old 02-12-2007, 02:44 PM   #1
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We're showing our age here...
I read the Hobbit because of Jackanory - I missed the last episode becasue I had to go to Brownies... Thorin's death was the second thing in a book to make me cry - the first being the death of Ginger in Black Beauty.... who needs films eh
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Old 02-12-2007, 02:51 PM   #2
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I have the CDs with the BBC productions of both Hobbit and LotR, as well as their production of "Tales of the Perilous Realm". I love listening instead of watching (haven't dug out the DVDs of the EE movies in ages), so I'd be interested in sharing ideas, though I'm not sure just how regularly I could keep up.
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Old 02-12-2007, 02:56 PM   #3
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I have the CDs with the BBC productions of both Hobbit and LotR, as well as their production of "Tales of the Perilous Realm". I love listening instead of watching (haven't dug out the DVDs of the EE movies in ages), so I'd be interested in sharing ideas, though I'm not sure just how regularly I could keep up.
Double posting - I love TftPR! Giles is great (Brian Blessed!!!!), Niggle is nice, & the Bombadil adaptation shows that the episode is not undramatisable. However, Smith disappoints, & that's the one I was most looking forward to.....
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Well a quartet would be enough for me.... Will start a thread tomorrow unless Dave beats me to it.... The recordings are available through the library I believe...
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Well a quartet would be enough for me.... Will start a thread tomorrow unless Dave beats me to it.... The recordings are available through the library I believe...
Well, I'm in - though I may not be able to listen again & contribute anything till the weekend...
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Well, I'm in - though I may not be able to listen again & contribute anything till the weekend...
That would depend on whether you have caught my stinking cold and end up off sick!

I'd like to listen to them again and this will give me an impetus - I only have the first episode loaded onto my Zen and have listened to it several times already at work (very useful when waiting for important phone calls and drumming your fingers...) so I ought to load the rest up.
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The books have been around for some 60 years, I think, and I don't see them going away. The Lord of the Rings will always be mentioned as a classic and one of, if not the greatest book written in the 20th century.

The movies on the otherhand, will survive with us, I don't think they'll hang around. I absolutely love the movies, but I don't think they had the same impact as the books.
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I read the Hobbit because of Jackanory - I missed the last episode becasue I had to go to Brownies... Thorin's death was the second thing in a book to make me cry - the first being the death of Ginger in Black Beauty.... who needs films eh
I have very vague memories of the Jackanory Hobbit. I remember the cast (Bernard Cribbins, David Wood, Jan Francis, Maurice Denham & Jan Francis) & the set. There's info about it if you Google, but I don't even know if they kept the tapes

I did manage to see the whole thing, having been unceremoniously ejected from the Brownies just before earning my Cross-dressing badge....(it wouldn't happen in these more enlightened days )
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I did manage to see the whole thing, having been unceremoniously ejected from the Brownies just before earning my Cross-dressing badge....(it wouldn't happen in these more enlightened days )
... might have missed the age limit too

Well my excuse was that as Sixer of the Gnomes, the Noldor needed my leadership.... so I guess I was playing Fingolfin since I inherited the post from my domineering elder sibling......
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