Monday, December 15, 2014

Link Round-Up: December 15, 2014

A Long Long Adventure with Hobbit by Breathing2004

Prints available for purchase from DeviantArt.



Interview: The Hobbit director Peter Jackson on his last Tolkien movie, his favourite villain—and why his kids haven’t read Lord of the Rings. (Presumably, because he's going through a rebellious phase.)

7 Reasons Why Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings Should Be Required Reading

An art student hand-illuminated The Silmarillion.

The Hobbit: Farewell and thank you to Middle-earth


How fairytales grew up: With Hollywood spending millions on new versions of age-old characters, from Frozen’s Snow Queen to Cinderella, fairytales are more popular than ever. But they’ve had to adapt, with lots of dark twists and no more sweet, biddable girls.

How I Learned to Stop Falling Asleep and Love the Hobbit Movies

How Middle-earth changed Hollywood for the better

So this critic, Laurence Dodds, over at The Telegraph, has just slapped nerdom in the face with a stiff, leather glove of an article which not only rakes nerds over the coals for being way too enraptured with meticulous world building: "It's one of the great literary tragedies of our age that Lord of the Rings, not its sprightlier prequel, served as the blueprint for modern fantasy. Returning to The Hobbit is like visiting a lost world, one which 20th century fantasy left behind. It’s almost surprising in how much fun it is compared to the exhausting trudges that followed. So with the third and final Hobbit film now upon us, it’s worth asking: why was it Lord of the Rings, not this sprightlier prequel, which served as the blueprint for modern high fantasy?"

Tolkien's myths are a political fantasy: In a world built on myth, we can’t ignore the reactionary politics at the heart of Tolkien’s Middle Earth.


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