Saturday, 22 September 2012
Looking forward to the Hobbit film
Along with probably millions of others I just loaded The Hobbit onto my Kindle (not sure what J R R Tolkien would think of that) and it is my bedtime reading. I'm trying to limit myself to a chapter a day because I read too quickly and want to chew it over. There are many devotees of Tolkien who will, no doubt, be disappointed by the film because of inaccuracies and omissions that are inevitable in transferring a book to the screen, especially one like this.
Although it may make me a philistine among keen Hobbit fans, I am looking forward to the film. Unfortunately the release date seems to be 14 December in the UK which means that I will have to be quick off the mark to book a seat at Bluewater after the opening rush and before the schools break up.
Poor Tolkien lived to see his beloved traditional Mass eclipsed, and dying in 1973 he did not live to see its revival. NLM records how he used to make the responses loudly in Latin, and on one occasion made three low bows while walking out in the middle of Mass. For a man of his culture it must have been painful to see what passed for "renewal" in the sixties and early seventies.
Fr Z has some interesting reflections and a fascinating story about an aerogramme from J R R Tolkien.
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The Hobbit has just come out in a Latin translation. Kindle edition available -
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008TGOD1E
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008TGOD1E
I live in Wellington New Zealand, we are having the world premiere of it here in this little city. Its been great having the big film companies here
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No doubt I will watch it. The LOR films captured much of the feel of the books (but for me not all).
The most glaring 'breaches' for me were fabrications not adaptations:
- Faramir attempts to take the ring from Frodo - a complete departure from the contrast between he and Boromir - the blood of Numenor ran true in Faramir
- the conflict between Arwen and Elrond
- the supposed 'loss' of Aragorn before Helm's Deep
- the lack of the scouring of the Shire
I hope there is nothing too jarring in the Hobbit.
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