This caught my attention!
Click on the image above for the story. I agree with Stephen Fry – what pointless, self-defeating bullying!
“To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered”.
Voltaire (1694 – 1778)
Click image to read my short story 'The Inn at the Edge of the World' in Bardic Tales and Sage Advice, Vol. 8.
Click image to read my short story 'The Witch of Wicken Fen' in Aphelion, the Webzine of sci-fi and fantasy.
It is something of a relief, having looked last month at his critics, to turn this time to Tolkien’s many admirers. It would not be true to say that there was no such thing as epic fantasy before Tolkien: there was a tradition of English and Irish writers before him, such as E R Eddison and […]
“This is not a work that many adults will read right through more than once.” With these words the anonymous reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement (25 November 1955) summed up his judgment of J R R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. It must have seemed a pretty safe prophecy at the time, for of […]
1920s Oxford: home to C S Lewis, J R R Tolkien and, in Paul Kearney’s novel The Wolf in the Attic, Anna Francis, a young Greek girl looking to escape the grim reality of her new life. The night they cross paths, none suspect the fantastic world at work all around them. Anna lives in a […]
In The Lord of the Rings a strange and primitive folk named the Woses came to aid the men of Gondor in breaking the siege of Minas Tirith. These wild woodland people lived in the ancient forest of Druadan, below the White Mountains. In form they were weather-worn, short-legged, thick-armed and stumpy-bodied and they knew wood-craft […]
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I agree! I saw this on Fry’s twitter, it’s pretty disgusting. Just let them be, they’ve clearly meant no harm and done no harm.
No! Not more trouble in the Shire! Call Gandalf, he’ll fix ’em!
Sounds like he already has – just read that Ian McKellen has joined the cause!
Their FB page is here: https://www.facebook.com/SaveTheHobbitSouthampton
I believe they’re winning against the bullies from Hollywood as well…
I wonder if any creative person involved in anything remotely Tolkien – i.e. who actually helped tell the story – is behind this. It doesn’t seem like the kind of move Peter Jackson, or Fran Walsh, or Viggo Mortensen, or I don’t know, the entire Tolkien estate, maybe, would support. Stupid, stupid, stupid.