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Even within that genre
Post #91,956
by
pwhysall
3/26/03 5:37:00 PM
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Even within that genre
Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy eclipses LOTR on any number of levels - descriptive power, emotive content, characterisation, plot, etc.
LOTR is basically a meditation on language and God. There's precious little plot or characterisation there.
Peter
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I think I am beginning to understand LOTR the movie
- (
Arkadiy
)
- (24)
- Feb. 10, 2003, 11:33:26 AM EST
Yes, but not so much budget as screen time.
- (
tseliot
)
- (3)
- Feb. 10, 2003, 05:11:42 PM EST
Pardon my optimism,
- (
Arkadiy
)
- (2)
- Feb. 11, 2003, 06:07:52 PM EST
Only problem I have with that analysis is:
- (
tseliot
)
- (1)
- Feb. 11, 2003, 07:45:30 PM EST
And so is David Wenham.
-NT
- (
static
)
- Feb. 13, 2003, 04:59:54 AM EST
Re: I think I am beginning to understand LOTR the movie
- (
qstephens
)
- March 26, 2003, 03:29:25 PM EST
Re: I think I am beginning to understand LOTR the movie
- (
deSitter
)
- (18)
- March 26, 2003, 03:31:13 PM EST
What's the point then?
- (
admin
)
- (2)
- March 26, 2003, 03:35:16 PM EST
Re: What's the point then?
- (
deSitter
)
- (1)
- March 26, 2003, 03:38:03 PM EST
Rent the movie.
- (
admin
)
- March 26, 2003, 03:41:45 PM EST
LOTR is considered by many as the best novel of 20th century
- (
Silverlock
)
- (5)
- March 26, 2003, 03:36:18 PM EST
Vox populi, vox dei
- (
rcareaga
)
- (4)
- March 26, 2003, 03:49:35 PM EST
Might have to qualify that "best"...
- (
bepatient
)
- March 26, 2003, 03:55:32 PM EST
best of genre perhaps but conrad, mailer(early stuff)
- (
boxley
)
- March 26, 2003, 04:05:35 PM EST
Only so much room in subject line
- (
Silverlock
)
- (1)
- March 26, 2003, 04:11:55 PM EST
Even within that genre
- (
pwhysall
)
- March 26, 2003, 05:37:00 PM EST
So who's this Homer guy everybody talks about?
- (
CRConrad
)
- (4)
- March 26, 2003, 04:32:01 PM EST
Its about the head of a family in Springfield America
-NT
- (
boxley
)
- (3)
- March 26, 2003, 04:34:12 PM EST
point==missed;
-NT
- (
inthane-chan
)
- (2)
- March 26, 2003, 04:35:28 PM EST
joke!=gotten the blind poet is the other guy
-NT
- (
boxley
)
- (1)
- March 26, 2003, 04:36:29 PM EST
Naw, was talking about you... Got the joke. :)
-NT
- (
inthane-chan
)
- March 26, 2003, 05:04:01 PM EST
So who's this Shakespeare guy everybody talks about?
- (
CRConrad
)
- March 26, 2003, 04:32:16 PM EST
So who are these Dumas guys everybody talks about?
- (
CRConrad
)
- (2)
- March 26, 2003, 04:33:09 PM EST
dumas is spelled dumass
- (
boxley
)
- (1)
- March 26, 2003, 04:35:54 PM EST
Naah - for *you* (and Ross), it's spelled "dumb-bell".
-NT
- (
CRConrad
)
- March 26, 2003, 04:44:26 PM EST
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