tags: Lord of the Rings
2001
September
- 2001 Sep 1
- Septembers and LotR
Get up, get up—it’s the first of the month…. Memories. From the corner of my mind…. It’s time to read the trilogy again.
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2007
March
- 2007 Mar 4
- torque, dust, and mist
In contrast to The Lord of the Rings and Middle Earth, where magic remains mysterious and arcane and it is never explained and dissected, there seems to be a tendency to technologize—or at least scientify—magic in more recent works of fantasy. In various worlds, magic is seen as a substance, a commodity, that can be altered, stored, and redistributed.
· Read more… - 2007 Mar 31
- lord of the rings by squaresoft
I don’t know how I find these random things, but I stumbled upon Chris Hazard and Ky Kimport’s take on what a Tolkien RPG would look like in the hands of Squaresoft.
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July
- 2007 Jul 21
- archetypes dying in media res
Because of the release of Deathly Hallows today, I had to catch up and read Half-Blood Prince. One of the reasons why I had decided to put off reading it was because everyone had ruined the “big surprise,” which was the death of Albus Dumbledore.
· Read more… - 2007 Jul 25
- magic: earthsea, middle-earth, et al.
I think The Earthsea Cycle will always have a place in my heart. The three key fantasy novels/series that I am heavily influenced by are The Lord of the Rings, The Last Unicorn, and The Earthsea Cycle. And because of the accidents of time and space, I think I will never escape the popular culture influences of “Star Wars” or of the Harry Potter series. Not that the latter two don’t have any merits. It’s just that I simply don’t consider them to be in the same class as the first three.
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August
- 2007 Aug 24
- harry potter and the lord of the rings
This idea was stolen shamelessly from this page that satirically insinuates that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is a thinly-veiled rewrite of The Lord the Rings. Being the Middle-Earth
· Read more…loserotaku that I am, I had to adjust a few plot points: