The Blood is The Life 08-01-2013
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Author Peter David has had a stroke, and because he lives in the USA the financial implications of this are pretty bloody terrifying. If you want to help out there is information on how to do so here.
- Son of JRR Tolkien feels like he has been screwed by the movie business
Reads to me like his dad got a hell of a lot better deal than most authors.
- James McAvoy says he wants to play Gandalf in The Silmarillion
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This is made of awesome.
- Emma Pickles' Makeup
scraped from the Daily Fail, but on the plus side it means I can link to the story without linking to the Daily Fail.
- Voters 'brainwashed by Tory welfare myths', shows new poll - UK Politics - UK - The Independent
Linking this story again because the first comment is made of awesome.
- 'It's like I'm an axe murderer': MP tries to find out why voters hate politicians | Politics | The Guardian
"The consensus was that politicians came from different backgrounds, had more income and job security than was usual, and appeared – almost always on television – to spend their time bickering and avoiding difficult questions, rather than trying to find solutions to everyday problems."
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Top three contains two girls and two Roald Dahl characters
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- The journey with no destination
Journo spends a night bussing with some boys. When asked about going to the job centre, the anchor boy, Keiran says: “I’ve got more chance of meeting Elvis than getting a job there.” “Who’s Elvis?” asks his friend. “Some dead brother,” says another. Kieran kisses his teeth. “Elvis was white, he just sounded black. Like Eminem.”
- How to design the perfect welfare system
Clue: it's not easy
- Reasonable summary of what it feels like to be a lib dem half way through the coalition
- Jon Worth examines the reasons for the hated of politicians
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Date: Tuesday, January 8th, 2013 11:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Wednesday, January 9th, 2013 12:40 am (UTC)"Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age" is in the volume printed as "The Silmarillion".
Olórin is mentioned in the Valaquenta, also.
Re: Tolkien
Date: Tuesday, January 8th, 2013 03:01 pm (UTC)PJ has changed, added and edited Tolkien's work but that's what adapting a book for another medium is and as far as I am concerned, this adapting was done very well and very respectfully*, unlike, say, some of the adaptations of Alan Moore.
* The sentence "In the new Hobbit movie, for example, the audience will discover characters Tolkien never put in, especially women." made me chuckle, though. I can just about hear the horrified academic.
Re: Tolkien
Date: Tuesday, January 8th, 2013 03:48 pm (UTC)Re: Tolkien
Date: Wednesday, January 9th, 2013 12:51 am (UTC)He discovered later (in the History of Middle Earth) that he didn't have to add to his father's notes, and convert them into a coherent story, but could publish notes and outlines with his own commentary on the textual development, without the need to intervene in the master's words.
If he can do that with mere notes, why can't Peter Jackson do that with a complete novel?
The Silmarillion was, essentially, an adaptation (from notes and isolated stories, not all at the same point in the legendarium, to a novel). And he regrets doing it. So he's taking it out on Jackson for doing the same thing.
Every time you hear anything from C.Tolkien, it references the Silmarillion and how it was wrong. It's been preying on his mind for 36 years.
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Date: Tuesday, January 8th, 2013 06:26 pm (UTC)