"Unearthed Tolkien recording to be released this year" Topic
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| Xintao | 25 May 2014 12:01 p.m. PST |
Huffington Post is reporting that, thanks to the tireless effort of Jay Johnstone, one of the founders of the sf/f media Web site Legendarium.me, a tape recording of J.R.R. Tolkien addressing a dinner party of fans in Rotterdam in 1958 is being brought out of storage and restored digitally. The tape was discovered in 1993 by Dutch Tolkien expert Rene van Rossenberg, who guarded it closely until Johnstone persuaded him to share it with LotR fans worldwide. The "Rotterdam Hobbit Dinner" tape will be released sometime later in 2014, and it will contain Tolkien's remarks, written as a parody of Bilbo's dinner speech and covering the narrative construction of Lord of the Rings, a poem in Elvish recited aloud, and his general (if gloomy) take on how the wizards of WW2 had succeeded and left the hobbit-folk in danger, without magic weapons to save them. But, he does finish with a hopeful wish: "And yet here gentlehobbits, may I conclude by giving you this toast: To the hobbits! May they outlast all the Sarumans and see spring again in the trees!" link Xin |
| darthfozzywig | 25 May 2014 12:29 p.m. PST |
Peter Jackson is also releasing it as a five-hour Director's cut, with a CG Tolkien battling Andy Serkis over the dinner rolls. It's in 128fps IMAX. |
| John the OFM | 25 May 2014 12:31 p.m. PST |
And the GW plastic figure will cost $54.99 USD. |
79thPA  | 25 May 2014 1:08 p.m. PST |
Don't be silly, John. They are not going to lower their prices for a limited edition figure such as this this. |
| John the OFM | 25 May 2014 1:15 p.m. PST |
That's true. What was I thinking? Wishful thinking on my part. |
| D6 Junkie | 25 May 2014 7:41 p.m. PST |
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| PatrickWR | 26 May 2014 6:22 p.m. PST |
I thought Jackson was going to break it up into 2 recordings, one to be released in 2015 and the other in 2016. |
| 79thPA | 27 May 2014 12:31 p.m. PST |
And then the special double boxed set just in time for Christmas 2017. |
| capncarp | 02 Jun 2014 7:27 a.m. PST |
Ooooh, will they release an artist-concept manual of the entire event, with alternately-imagined place settings of the specially-ordered dinnerware ordered from Noritake, and the entire range of ashtrays, before and after usage? Will the crumpled and soiled napkins underscoring the climax of the dinner be represented correctly, with food and lipstick stains? |
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