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04-05-2007, 07:12 AM | #1 |
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Drop Everything Right Now!!!
http://tolkien.hcp-uk.co.uk/ Desktops, avatars STUFF
AND a TRAILER for the book http://tolkien.hcp-uk.co.uk/thechildrenofhurin.aspx |
04-05-2007, 07:25 AM | #2 |
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Moving to N&N, as this is an announcement rather than a discussion - please drool there!
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Sorry, bit over excited.... |
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04-05-2007, 07:43 AM | #4 |
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WOW!
*breathless* ... (finally takes some breath after a while) Thanks very much, davem! Shame I already have my own avatar, otherwise I'd use one of these... or should we all for solidarity "wear" one of the avatars for the day the book comes out? But it still does not mean... (utilizes desktop wallpaper ) Waiting impatiently for the screensaver (trailer looks great. I never saw a trailer on a book before )
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Just waiting for the Tolkien Estate site now.... |
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04-05-2007, 08:17 AM | #6 | |
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But I think it would be good to do something on the day of release, something like "come all wearing red hats", you know... and the avatars are actually the only one I thought of...
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04-05-2007, 08:29 AM | #7 |
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Kind of interesting that in the little piece by CT on the site he refers to Morgoth as 'the God', when Tolkien himself stopped calling the Valar 'gods' in the 20's/30's? And the statement that CoH 'became the dominant story in his later work on Middle-earth.' is intruiging. I wonder why CoH came to be the 'dominant story' rather than Beren & Luthien? Or even Tuor & the Fall of Gondolin?
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Wow!
Thanks davem! *quickly goes to edit his avatar*
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04-05-2007, 10:15 AM | #10 |
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*faints*
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Nah, Serious we'll be back soon, but for a while I'll stay in the Narn I Chin Hurin mood
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Fantastic to see the author's publisher finally dipping their toes in to the internet medium. nicely done |
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04-06-2007, 07:44 AM | #14 |
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But I'm a trifle annoyed by this "oldest story of Middle-earth" business: untrue, whichever way you look at it.
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For your second question, the simple answer is that it is the most memorable and dramatic story - I didn't reread the Silmarillion for a long but the story of Turin stayed clearest in the memory. As for the first... maybe CT is rooting for the wrong side ! Seriously, having just read the Milton Waldman letter in its long form at the start of the Silmarillion second edition, I think it is just using a term which is perhas more understandable than "(angelic) powers", to those who don't perhaps know the Sil but have encountered Norse / Classical mythology..... however it surely should not have been capitalised ...how intriguing if CT did so himself!!!!
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Yes I think so - the Valaquenta says he was counted "no longer "among the Valar and in the letter Tolkien says that the word Valar is "englished" as gods.
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