Tolkien Geekery

[caitri]

I found an interesing blogpost on Rereading the LOTR appendices. I always found it about equally fascinating and annoying that Tolkien put so much of the actual STORY in the appendices: ALL of Aragorn and Arwen's love story, for instance, most of the real background and ending stuff...yeah. (And of course, per usual, Rohan gets ROBBED. *grump*)

My friend Anton also got me a copy of the audiobook of The Silmarillion which I started listening to last night. I listened to the first chapter and yeah, I agree that it really has to be listen to rather than read, plus all the Elvish is just so much more lovely and alive when vocalized. Looking forward to hearing more!!

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Librarian skillz activate!!

[caitri.livejournal.com]

This list of Tolkien audio compilates (http://mysite.verizon.net/aznirb/mtr/tolkien-audio.html) indicates that the Christopher recording can be had on CD in this set (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0694525707/ref=nosim/mikestolkienreso). :D

I will find and friend Eldritch Hobbit!! You may also be interested in ithiliana who is another Tolkien-focused academic and friend of mine. She also does a lot of scholarly work on fandom as well so her posts are always fascinating reading!! :D

Re: Librarian skillz activate!!

[morfin.livejournal.com]

I pity people who don't have librarian friends :) Thanks for the heads up on Ithiliana.