A plea came in from Othmar, whose kids are getting sick of buying dozens of Kinder Surprise chocolate eggs and getting every LOTR figure several times over except Gimli – so they can’t complete the set. Are they just unlucky, or are there no Kinder Surprise Gimlis? Write in and tell us if you’ve found one….
Day: February 25, 2002
Some of you will remember the infamous London newspaper article about LOTR that based its research on a spoof synopsis of LOTR. According to a German site, somebody’s written a whole book using the same source for their ‘research.’ Hilarious!
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Somebody who reads German could confirm this story for us from Christoph, called “What happens when someone desperately tries to cash in on the hype – and fails”
Christoph continues: “We all laughed when a “London Sunday Times” author used the LOTR-synopsis from the Tolkien Sarcasm Page to spare himself the tedious task of doing research (a.k.a. reading). [Everyone remember the infamous ‘Queen Beruthiel, evil sister to Galadriel’ gaffe?] But now, there is something better: a complete book on Tolkien (named “Tolkines Welt” = Tolkien’s world) which includes a synopsis of his main work. COMPLETELY taken from the sarcasm site (translated, of course). The publisher has withdrawn the book and apologized…
The whole story is on Tolkiengesellschaft tho’ it’s in German. A good translation would be appreciated by TORN!