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22981589 No.22981589 [Reply] [Original]

>The emotions that are stirred by the cinematic realization of Tolkien’s rambling story are a faint echo of what would be felt, were The Ring to be performed as Wagner intended, with every single stage direction realistically obeyed. This would be the film to end all films, the Götterdämmerung of our modern era, in which Wagner’s moral would be apparent even to the unmusical. And almost certainly it would be banned.

>The Lord of the Rings is full of a kind of degenerate version of the Wagnerian approach to things. But Wagner is the real artist, and Tolkien a kind of second-rate populariser.

>> No.22982331

>>22981589
>in the pocket of the tobacco industry
>shitting on Tolkien
That bitch has no right.

>> No.22982336

The U.S. government should mail everyone a complete set of all three books every week in case they haven't read them yet. If they are going to print money every day why not print everyone a nice set of Tolkien's books too