Search Results for "J.R.R. Tolkien": 5 results
Tolkien, J.R.R.: (01) The Fellowship of the Ring (movie): In some ways, this is an anti-book log entry, because I deliberately did not re-read The Fellowship of the Ring before going to see the movie. I wanted to be able to see the movie on its own terms,...
Tolkien, J.R.R.: (01) The Fellowship of the Ring (re-watch of movie): After the King has recently been re-released as a trade paperback, which is unsurprising because it's an anthology of stories "in honor of J.R.R. Tolkien," and everything Tolkien is being re-released because of the movie. I did manage to see...
Tolkien, J.R.R.: (02) The Two Towers [movie]: Last year, I posted thoughts about the movie version of The Fellowship of the Ring to this book log. I'm not doing that this year, but if anyone's curious, I wrote a series of posts to rec.arts.sf.fandom: Things I...
Tolkien, J.R.R.: Hobbit, The (audio): I had been contemplating listening to The Lord of the Rings as an audiobook, as a way of forcing myself to pay attention to each word of a text that I must have read dozens of times. I tried...
Tolkien, J.R.R.: Silmarillion, The: I started re-reading J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion on January 3, Tolkien's birthday, on the theory that hobbits give presents to others on their birthdays and his books are the best presents he could give (if he were still with...