Word: tolkien
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...When Tolkien wrote his Lord of the Rings trilogy, his hobbits were much like English people, and the "Shire" a rough analogy to an England reluctantly roused to fight evil. After one harrowing adventure, two hobbits, Merry and Pippin, found themselves chitchatting as they went along: "They turned and walked side by side slowly along the line of the river. Behind them the light grew in the East. As they walked they compared notes, talking lightly in hobbit-fashion of the things that had happened since their capture. No listener would have guessed from their words that they had suffered...
There has always been some difficulty with the name. An r frequently slides between the last two letters, especially in conversation, the extra letter making him seem like some merry, mischievous, vaguely magical creature out of Tolkien: Geldorf, the elf with the spiritual mission...
Bright, baffled Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal) has to save the world, which, a 6-ft. rabbit informs him, will end in 28 days. Writer-director Richard Kelly populates his suburban Middlesex with nearly as many strange creatures and daunting tasks as Tolkien did his Middle-earth. With an extra 20 minutes and a probing chat track with Kelly and fellow director Kevin Smith, this beautiful, elusive tale of tangent universes and distant technologies is even more beguiling--and almost makes linear sense. Not that it has to. As Donnie's friend Gretchen tells him, "You're weird." When he says, "Sorry...
...best DVD to give is clearly The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Though traditionally a “guy” movie reserved for dads and Tolkien nerds with thick spectacles, the average American mother endures a lot of hardship during the holiday season, and a good dose of fantasy is likely what she needs. After dealing with loads of banal domestic tasks, a husband who imbibed a gallon of eggnog and hit on her brother, and snobby, demanding children home from Swedish boarding school, the comfort of Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen) is a great...
...editor named Susanna Clarke has done something even they couldn't. She has written Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (Bloomsbury; 800 pages), a chimera of a novel that combines the dark mythology of fantasy with the delicious social comedy of Jane Austen into a masterpiece of the genre that rivals Tolkien...