Joris Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 I had a tidy up Joris, this place needs a woman's touch! I have however made a space for the film about the trilogy I am currently reading................ Please tell me that's the Lord of the Rings? (and tell me where the movies are please) :-X Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fubar 502 Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Please tell me that's the Lord of the Rings?] Or do you mean Lord of the strings ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Please tell me that's the Lord of the Rings?] Or do you mean Lord of the strings ;-) That one too!! :red: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike65 Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Please tell me that's the Lord of the Rings? (and tell me where the movies are please) :-X Surely not. It must be The Hitchiker's Guide Surely the best as it is a trilogy in five parts. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 is it me, or does anybody else have the image of them all lounging around in the sun waiting for the telephone to ring? Mark Pretty much sums it up Mark. - currently we are having to endure all of N.O.S. holiday snaps. You see, it isn't all fun :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gritineye Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Just like to thank all the new mods for taking on the task, more hands make light work :-) well done! Onwards and upwards! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Please tell me that's the Lord of the Rings? (and tell me where the movies are please) :-X Lot of intresting Great War analogies in Lord of the Rings, if you know Tolkien's life and read the books with the right mindset. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosie Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Sorry to really disappoint you guys but it's not LotR or hitchikers or any of the others mentioned. It's 'that' series, with Mr Grey and his secret room!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degsy Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 Sorry to really disappoint you guys but it's not LotR or hitchikers or any of the others mentioned. It's 'that' series, with Mr Grey and his secret room!!! Bit obvious really:whistle: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snapper Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Yeah - and he nicked loads of it from John Buchan, anyway. Lot of intresting Great War analogies in Lord of the Rings, if you know Tolkien's life and read the books with the right mindset. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Yeah - and he nicked loads of it from John Buchan, anyway. This could get to be a fun discussion. :-D As an aside I did overhear two burly bus enginners discussing the culinary aspects of 50 shades of grey yeasterday. :nut: Actaulyy a lot of similarities come out between Tolkien and his books and C.S. Lewis books, particulary the Out of a silent Planet triology when the main carechter was a Philologist, (The forensic study of language) The same as Tolkien. This is less suprising when you know that Lewis and Tolkien were close friends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snapper Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 A close friend of mine's father was a young professor at Oxford with Tolkien and Lewis and described them both as "Odd". During the big one he served in the Intelligence Corps and was tasked with learning Russian in a fortnight - which he did. The powers that be were so pleased they had him learn Mandarin a bit later when polarities changed and he had a similar timescale for that one. Same result. Brain the size of a planet. MB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 There is no real refrences I've been able to find to Tolkien's work during the Second World War. He was an exprt on Norse and Eiropean sagas, as a lot of German code words refered to this stories, I've been told he was attached to Bletchley Park to advise on what such codenames might reveal. During the Great War he was a signals officer in the 11th Lancashire Fusiliers, arriving in France 6 June 1916, he did see front line action but was invalided home with fever and never returned to the front. I did a Level 3 Communications project on the Great War a few years back, part of the project was a presentation on J.R.R. Tolkien and the influence of his Great War service on Lord of the Rings. Both Lewis and Tolkien were commited Christians, compared to the Narnia books, Tolkien's lack of any religious trend in his books was wondered about at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 I'll put the kettle on then......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 I'll sort it and post if anyone is intrested? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Was that two sugars? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morris c8 fat Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 Steady on Tony tou know Tolkien is Hobbit forming!:red: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degsy Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 I'll sort it and post if anyone is intrested? :yawn::yawn::yawn: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redcap861 Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 Steady on Tony tou know Tolkien is Hobbit forming!:red: :shocked: :cool2::-D:-D:-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 :shocked::cool2::-D:-D:-D Philistines! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferrettkitt Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 I'll sort it and post if anyone is intrested? Post up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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