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How is this? Also, does the fact that Chris The Attention Whore's name is on it mean that it's basically fake?

>> No.5853190

why is Tolkien's name bigger than the book title when he didn't even fucking write it

>> No.5853203

>>5853183
>book
>edited by JRR tolkien
>editions edited by C. tolkien

>> No.5853204

>>5853183
Anything with "Christopher Tolkien" on it should be avoided at all costs.
Just read the Heaney translation.

>> No.5853210

>>5853183
>>5853203
>>5853204
I'm not into Tolkien but what's this thing about Christopher?

>> No.5853225

>>5853210
He's a huge faggot, look him up.

>> No.5853227

>>5853225
All I can find is that he is buttmad about Peter Jackson, is that it?

>> No.5853249

Its good OP, Tolkien knew and taught anglosaxon. Heanys is mediocre.

>> No.5854999

>>5853227
Any good enjoyer of Tolkien should hate Hackson, not sure why everyone hates the man for doing what any self-respecting guardian of his father's work should do

>> No.5855006

>>5854999
I hate Hackson and I hate Chris
Both are faggots

>> No.5855466

>disliking chris

>> No.5855507
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5855507

>>5853204
So I should avoid this at all costs?

>> No.5855569

>>5855507
Yes, same with the silmarillion

>> No.5855752

>>5854999
>Hate Hackson
C'mon, the LOTR trilogy is GOAT. I can understand your frustration over the Hobbit trilogy though.

>> No.5855908

>>5855569
>same with the [S]ilmarillion
My head hurts from this thread. "I hate this, I hate that, well I hate them both" No qualifiers, no reasons.

Silmarillion is good, Yes "JRRTolkien" is the biggest thing on the cover to attract the flies, welcome to advertising, translating books to films are difficult.

>>5853183
Why would Chris need to get involved with that at all? Did dad not finish his translation? Then hand it over to someone qualified.

>> No.5855952

>>5855908
Tolkien started his translation in his twenties and worked on it until his death. Christopher took the handwritten work and compiled it into a coherent printed text. The first hundred pages is the actual translation. Then there's another hundred pages of Tolkien's notes about the translation and the work as a whole. Finally, Christopher found some unpublished, I hate to call it fanfiction, but its essentially that, that his father wrote about Beowulf.

>> No.5856439

>>5853190

Sales

>> No.5856508

>>5855752
Peter Jackson is probably the dullest big blockbuster filmmaker out there

>> No.5856667

>>5856508
Not really, but he certainly is the dullest director who started with great B movies

>> No.5856845

>>5853183
>>5853203
>>5853204
Would you dolts actually explain what's so bad about Christopher Tolkien?

>> No.5856872

>>5856508

Christopher Nolan

>> No.5857204

>itt: people who don't understand what editors do, and that almost every author has an editor

>> No.5858479

>>5856845
Nothing, if anyone was to edit Tolkien's works it should be him. People just don't like that he is not literally JRR Tolkien "Himself"

>> No.5859627

>>5856872
At least you can laugh at Nolan.
>>5856845
They're trolling or retards.