JRR Tolkien & Battle of the Somme

[Lamp]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5133000.stm

 

[Mey]

um' and your point?

 

[AngelHeal]

um' and your point?

that candy is liked by many, but not by people who don't like it.!!! strong point ey?

 

[Rellik]

couldnt be arsed reading even half of it...


idd whats your point?

 

[Adlatus Hellbringer]

an interesting read I never realised tolkien served in the great war. It would explain his need to write about good triumphing over evil.

 

[Thadius]

Lamp, some of the stuff you post is just crap

 

[Mey]

Lamp, some of the stuff you post is just crap

agreed!

 

[old.Tohtori]

an interesting read I never realised tolkien served in the great war. It would explain his need to write about good triumphing over evil.

Didn't tolkien say that his writing had no message at all. That it's just "stuff".

 

[Thorwyn]

lol yes!

Despite all those 1968 Flower Power Treehuggers trying to interprete his works with all kinds of stuff.. communism, Hitler etc.etc. Tolkien was pretty annoyed by them iirc.

 

[Lamp]

Lamp, some of the stuff you post is just crap

Thanks

 

[Tilda]

Mey, Thadius & Rellik chill the heck out.
Its downright rude to say something like this is crap. did you even bother reading it?
I read it and found it interested and insightful, particularly one users comments about how the german cavalry were what the black riders were based on.

If you can't say something nice, dont say anything at all.

 

[Thadius]

Mey, Thadius & Rellik chill the heck out.
Its downright rude to say something like this is crap. did you even bother reading it?
I read it and found it interested and insightful, particularly one users comments about how the german cavalry were what the black riders were based on.

If you can't say something nice, dont say anything at all.

Yes I did read it

 

[Mirari]

Good read this, gonna read the rest of the comments when I get home from work.

 

[Cadiva]

I thought it was a fascinating piece of writing examining a side of Tolkein that many people probably don't even think of when reading his works.

 

[Lamp]

Much of Tolkein's ideas came from real life influences. Tolkein was very good at languages. Elvish was a blend of Finnish, Welsh, Greek, and something else. The Hobbit was written for his son Christopher as a kind of bed time story. Funny how it turned out to be one of the most read works of fiction in the western civilised world.

 

[Gahn]

Bbc discovered it tis late? No news tbh -.-

 

[Tijl]

Nice reading. A shame about some comments...