[SKRIVA] BIlder av JRR Tolkien 1968

From: Ahrvid Engholm <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:28:00 -0400 (EDT)

TIll en dokumentary av BBC 1968 togs bilder av JRR TOlkien:

http://www.openculture.com/2011/06/fantastic_bbc_footage_of_jrr_tolkien_in_1968.html

"The high points of this documentary on the great J.R.R. Tolkien, from the BBC 
Series In Their Own Words: British Novelists, are the moments that fulfill the 
promise of the series? title. Skip over the distracting ?man on the street? 
interviews and long pans of the landscape, meant perhaps to invoke Middle 
Earth. In fact, you can skip over every scene that isn?t just the author?s 
magnificent talking head.
Start at minute 2:49, where he describes first writing the immortal words ?In a 
hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.? The anecdote should inspire 
beleaguered graduate students and teachers everywhere: He came up with the line 
while grading exams.
We also loved Tolkien?s confession about trees, starting at the 7:00 minute 
mark: ?I should have liked to make contact with a tree and find out how it 
feels about things.?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR-4vMEiQ_U&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca5TUYB1nlw&feature=related

--Ahrvid

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