Tag: tolkien
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Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 4 (post 2 of 2)
And here is the rest of Chapter 4 of my Tri-lingual Hobbit Re-read! And ooh, now that I’m done with Chapter 4, Chapter 5 will bring Gollum! FUN!
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Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 4 (post 1 of 2)
It’s been several weekends since I last checked in on this, but here you go, O Internets! The first bit of Chapter 4 of my tri-lingual reread of The Hobbit!
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Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 3
My pace on this has, unsurprisingly, slowed now that I’m back at work! But I think a chapter a weekend will do me for a while. Here then is chapter 3!
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Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 2 (post 2 of 2)
Picking up where I left off in Chapter 2 of The Hobbit, the award for “next idiom found” goes to the German edition!
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Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 2 (post 1 of 2)
Starting off 2012 with a big ol’ geek-out over the first bit of Chapter 2 of The Hobbit. Really, I can’t think of many better books with which to start my 2012 reading. And yeah, I started this in the tail end of 2011 but will be finishing it well into 2012, so I think…
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A Beren and Luthien movie thoughts
I was yakking about this on Twitter tonight, mostly light-heartedly, but I thought I’d delve into this in more depth here: in the Ideal World According to Me, the next Tolkien movie after The Hobbit would be the story of Beren and Luthien. I think I’ve mentioned before on LJ posts that their story should…
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Hobbit news!
Word is going around the net that The Hobbit starts filming in July! Tolkien fans, please to be joining me in squee that Sir Ian McKellen will be reprising his role as Gandalf. However, that leaves plenty more important roles to be filled. I’m of course crossing fingers for Hugo Weaving to come back as…