Oh the joys…

I’ve lost my voice again, drat it, so I’ve had to ring in sick – it’s a little difficult to answer phones with no voice, I barely managed to call my employer! I’m lying here in bed reading stuff on the internets to keep my mind engaged. It won’t pay the bills but it is interesting.Continue reading “Oh the joys…”

Gothic literature and the library

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Yesterday I took a trip down to London to go to the British Library. On the 20th the current exhibition, Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination, closes and I’m rather fond of certain aspects of the Gothic so I took a trip (also, I like old books).

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Possible Middle-earth films…

I’d just love more films from Middle Earth.

There’s so many potential films in Tolkien’s body of work, even if The Silmerilion is out of bounds for the foreseeable future. I thing a film covering the War of the Ring in other areas of Middle Earth, as the writer of this post suggests, is the most exciting, although some of the history of the Second Age would be interesting too.

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Middle-earth next film

Other promising stories contending for the silver screen 

Even during the initial stages of production on The Hobbit, people worldwide were already speculating what other future projects pertaining to the world of Middle-earth may grace our screens.

The Silmarillion is a vast horde of riches sitting beneath the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon; a source of material barred from cinematic adaptation within the foreseeable future – and perhaps, a good thing too.

However, copyright issues aside, we must not forget the other stories contained within the appendices of The Lord of the Rings; stories that have been virtually untouched by Peter Jackson’s expansion of his Hobbit trilogy.

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