Middle-earth [formerly LotR] in New Media

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There's video!
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Goodness!!
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I'll put this here, rather than start a new thread, but this is extremely cool. I know that some Tolkien scholars criticize Colbert, but I don't think that anyone does more to bring arcane Tolkien knowledge to the masses. And in this case, connecting Tolkien to the most current popular music.

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Voronwë the Faithful wrote:I know that some Tolkien scholars criticize Colbert, but I don't think that anyone does more to bring arcane Tolkien knowledge to the masses.
I'm pretty sure that the sentence "Some X criticize Y" is true for any values of X and Y. ;)
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Setting that aside, I hope you watched the video. It is very cool.
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I watched this a few days ago and I loved it. I miss this side of Stephen.
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That was totally awesome.
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Watched it once I got home. It's great.
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OMG. Breathtaking.

Tom's comment: "He is such a total nerd. Which is great for all of us."

Could probably apply that to Tolkien in general. Unless *looking around with a glower and clenching hands* you have some kind of problem with the term "nerd."
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*shared with other nerds in the fam*

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LEGO Recreation of the Helm's Deep Battle from LOTR
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From the comments:
Is that a machine gun lol
Makes as much sense as the 500 odd Elves who showed up for no good reason in the movie. lol
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^
And that's how I learned that Tapatalk does not show text inside nested quotes. :(

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Frelga wrote:And that's how I learned that Tapatalk does not show text inside nested quotes. :(
TIL.

Commenter A: Is that a machine gun lol

Commenter B: Makes as much sense as the 500 odd Elves who showed up for no good reason in the movie. lol
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This is nice:


I love how they reforge the shards!
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These tapestries, based on Tolkien's artwork, are amazing, but the look in Christopher Tolkien's face as he sees them for the first time is one of the most moving things I've ever seen. And the story he tells about the Rivendell painting is quite special as well.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQmh_Sfq88Y&fbclid=
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Thats fabulous, but I wish I could have seen more of the tapestries and their creation! Also, CRRT really is very frail now. :(
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He's doing better than most people who are pushing 95!
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I know where I'll be on August 18th...

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Impressive!

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