From: Aradan<\/i><\/p>\n
I have just found out that the British cable channel “Performance” will be showing a documentary on the life of JRR Tolkien at 9:05 on Tuesday, 22nd August. This is what the TV listings supplement of the Guardian newspaper has to say about it:<\/p>\n
‘The Hobbit was recently voted best book of the 20th century in a reader’s poll, and this documentary investigates the life of its creator, JRR Tolkien. Orphaned at a young age, Tolkien retreated into worlds of fantasy, and by the age of 13 was inventing whole new alphabets and languages.<\/p>\n
Footage of him as an old man shows him inscribing his books with dedications in Elvish – one translates “may a star shine upon our meeting”. Having survived the first world war trenches, he became a professor at Oxford and set about forging an epic mythology for England – a wildly unfashionable undertaking then as now, but one which was, and still is, welcomed fervently by a legion of readers.’<\/p>\n
Unfortunately I don’t have cable TV so I won’t be able to see it, but if any other UK readers of the One Ring Net do have cable TV, then I look forward to reading a report – especially if it includes anything about the film!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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