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Akroma
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 Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 9:49 am Post subject: Trotter, the Hobbit?! and Bingo, son of Bilbo?!! |
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I truly recomend HOME series to you all, particularly the three volumes concerning the writing of LOTR..
I have read them quite a few times over the years, but it was only yesterday, when I spent an afternoon telling the best parts to my friends, that I realized how much everyone should read those books!!
Did you know that Aragorn started out as a Hobbit named Trotter?
And Frodo was Bingo!
Have you met Gandalf, the Ringwraith?
And the Evil Treebeard..
and the fifth hobbit..
and Bilbo's wife..
If you by any chance cannot get hold of those books, or are too busy to read them, tell me, and I'll gladly post the best bits, the ones concerning real changes, ideas springing on the paper... Tolkien's mind and manner of writing really comes unveiled..
Númenor and the whole Dúnedain story only came about after Tolkien figured out that Aragorn should be a man, and perhaps kind of the stone kingdom... get it? Gondor?? 
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DarkElfChilde
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| Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:01 am Post subject: |
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I had a hobbit and his name was Bingo.
B-I-N-G-O!
B-I-N-G-O!
B-I-N-G-O!
Okay...LOL. Sorry, just had to break into song.
- DEC
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Vilwarin
Joined: 01 Jun 2004
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Location: Annúminas
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| Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 11:17 am Post subject: |
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Ai, this would be great, please do!!!
I would so very much love to read HoME, but I have no idea how to get my hands on it.
Vil
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SpaceWeavil
Joined: 27 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 12:19 pm Post subject: |
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The great and wonderful Amazon delivered two new bits of HoME to me the other day. Eventually I might have the lot. 
The Trotter thing though has always made me laugh. Just made me thing of Del Boy from Only Fools and Horses following them about in his yellow three-wheeler.
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Eruanna
Joined: 11 Jan 2005
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Location: Dor-Cuarthol, betwixt the Bow and the Helm...
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| Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 9:10 pm Post subject: HoME a great resource |
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I am only just starting to skim the surface of the HoME series. It shows the underbelly, as it were, of the whole of Tolkien's creative mind.
Discarded characters, reworked story lines, you name it, it's all in the H0ME.
--Eruanna
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DrowessQueen
Joined: 16 Jan 2005
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Location: The Underdark
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| Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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| DarkElfChilde wrote: | I had a hobbit and his name was Bingo.
B-I-N-G-O!
B-I-N-G-O!
B-I-N-G-O!
Okay...LOL. Sorry, just had to break into song.
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Silvae
Joined: 28 Nov 2004
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Location: Lyon, France
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| Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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That really would be great -  me too, me too, please! I've always wanted those! Sadly, living in France, the *only* thing available is the French version of LOtR, containing hideously-distorted-comical-when-they're-not-supposed-to-be-comical-seriously-irritating names (ex : Bilbon Saquet lives in Hobbitebourg, knows Aragorne and speaks Elfique!!  Argh!! It just *sounds* so weird) Actually, it's a common joke here that the translators must have been (a) high or (b) extremely uninspired and under contract with a dangerously looming time limit. (Don't worry, we French Aussies have a strange sense of humour...)
Anyway, that really would be cool.
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