Christopher Tolkien Resigns

[Steve Morrison]

Christopher Tolkien resigned his position as an officer of the
Tolkien Estate back on August 29. MM has a blog post about it:

https://middle-earth.xenite.org/christopher-tolkien-resigned-tolkien-estate/

or https://preview.tinyurl.com/y7ye8x54 in case that wraps.

Can anyone translate the article in Portuguese which he links? At any
rate, this development is obviously relevant to the Amazon TV
adaptation news.

[Stan Brown]

Post by Steve Morrison
Christopher Tolkien resigned his position as an officer of the
https://middle-earth.xenite.org/christopher-tolkien-resigned-tolkien-estate/
or https://preview.tinyurl.com/y7ye8x54 in case that wraps.
Can anyone translate the article in Portuguese which he links? At any
rate, this development is obviously relevant to the Amazon TV
adaptation news.

"This is a bundle of news and no mistake."

The TV series reminds me of Tolkien's stance in /Letters/ number 202
of "Art or cash." I can't blame Christopher -- he's been holding the
line for decades, and he must be exhausted.

[John W Kennedy]

Post by Stan Brown

Post by Steve Morrison
Christopher Tolkien resigned his position as an officer of the
https://middle-earth.xenite.org/christopher-tolkien-resigned-tolkien-estate/
or https://preview.tinyurl.com/y7ye8x54 in case that wraps.
Can anyone translate the article in Portuguese which he links? At any
rate, this development is obviously relevant to the Amazon TV
adaptation news.

"This is a bundle of news and no mistake."
The TV series reminds me of Tolkien's stance in /Letters/ number 202
of "Art or cash." I can't blame Christopher -- he's been holding the
line for decades, and he must be exhausted.

You can’t just assume that Amazon’s version will be dreadful, y’know.
Their stuff has been pretty good. They’ve just announced that they’re
going to be carrying Stana Katic’s new series, “Absentia”, which has
been getting raves in the countries where it’s already been shown, and
in the one book-to-television conversion they’ve done that I know both
sides of, “Just Add Magic”, they actually improved on the original,
taking a pre-teen fantasy that was perfectly OK, but nothing to write
home about, and making it into a lovely Chinese puzzle box resembling a
kids’ version of “Babylon 5” more than anything else.

And I do believe Tolkien mentions somewhere that he foresaw future
artists filling in and extending his “mythology for England”. How many
versions are there—even restricting the list to those set in the bronze
age—of the tale of Elektra?

[Stan Brown]

Post by Stan Brown
The TV series reminds me of Tolkien's stance in /Letters/ number 202
of "Art or cash." I can't blame Christopher -- he's been holding the
line for decades, and he must be exhausted.

You can?t just assume that Amazon?s version will be dreadful,
y?know.

That's a fair point. I have enjoyed the Amazon original
/Catastrophe/. OTOH, /The Man in the High Castle/ didn't hold my
interest past about episode 4. We'll have to wait and see.

[Louis Epstein]

Post by Stan Brown

Post by Steve Morrison
Christopher Tolkien resigned his position as an officer of the
https://middle-earth.xenite.org/christopher-tolkien-resigned-tolkien-estate/
or https://preview.tinyurl.com/y7ye8x54 in case that wraps.
Can anyone translate the article in Portuguese which he links? At any
rate, this development is obviously relevant to the Amazon TV
adaptation news.

"This is a bundle of news and no mistake."
The TV series reminds me of Tolkien's stance in /Letters/ number 202
of "Art or cash." I can't blame Christopher -- he's been holding the
line for decades, and he must be exhausted.

You can?t just assume that Amazon?s version will be dreadful, y?know.

It's a moral obligation to always assume any attempt to dramatize
Tolkien will be dreadful...and continue to disparage it until it
is forgotten.

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at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

[Bill O'Meally]

Post by Louis Epstein
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It's a moral obligation to always assume any attempt to dramatize
Tolkien will be dreadful...and continue to disparage it until it
is forgotten.

Well, maybe at least until it proves to be less than dreadful.

[s***@gmail.com]

Post by Louis Epstein
It's a moral obligation to always assume any attempt to dramatize
Tolkien will be dreadful...and continue to disparage it until it
is forgotten.

It's a moral obligation to always disparage any attempt to dramatize
Tolkien when it's as dreadful as the PJV.

--SPQ--