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07-18-2014, 01:05 AM | #1 | |||
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Two different Tolkien biopics will compete for audiences
From the London Telegraph, 17 July 2014:
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There is little doubt that Tolkien and Lewis shared a friendly rivalry; nor that their friendship later cooled, more to the disappointment of Lewis than Tolkien. (I found an article on it here.) Tolkien disliked Narnia, and Lewis disliked hobbits, but I don’t think that was the cause of the rupture. There is more coverage of the two upcoming films at Hollywood Reporter. It sounds as if one film shows Tolkien in a positive light, while the other is a negative depiction. On 26 November 1963, Tolkien wrote his daughter Priscilla about the death of Lewis (who died the same day as US President John Kennedy; the except is from Letters of JRR Tolkien # 251), Quote:
The next letter, to his son Michael, says, Quote:
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07-21-2014, 05:26 AM | #2 | ||
Princess of the Noldor (and Administrative Empress of the Lone Islands)
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But I think it sounds rather different from “strange, psychotic visions” I agree with your view of Herr Pramschufer. Quote:
And the friendship had been viewed differently by them all along anyway. From what I read about them, it seems that Lewis was Tolkien's best friend, while Tolkien was one of Lewis' very good friends.
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07-30-2014, 07:17 AM | #3 |
The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator
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Psychotic visions? Really? Sounds like I won't be watching either of them, then. I'm not a fan of war stories, and even less of religious ones with psychotic visions thrown in them to spice them up.
The man was a character if the Humphrey biography is anything to go by but he didn't really lead an exciting life. |
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