October 2022 Reading Thread

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Talking of Tolkien, anyone else finding the new series boring?
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I haven't watched a millisecond myself, but, as you probably know, there are some threads here discussing it.
 
AE35Unit said:
Talking of Tolkien, anyone else finding the new series boring?
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Avoiding it like the plague. My brother finds it boring (as in he fell asleep) and my mother doesn't know what's going on. Neither have read any Tolkien. I'm interested to see what the "new" (aka rehashed) Tolkien book on Numenor looks like though. I suppose we can thank Bezos for some new Alan Lee paintings, if nothing else. :unsure:

So as not to derail the thread, I've just started Tamed: Ten Species That Changed Our World by Alice Roberts. I've liked all of Alice Roberts's books that I've read to date. She is really good at making the science accessible and enjoyable to read without simplifying into baby language. The first chapter was about the domestication of the dog in terms of archaeological and genetic findings. The second chapter is on Wheat.​
 
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AE35Unit said:
Talking of Tolkien, anyone else finding the new series boring?
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Slow start, but certainly picked up last week. I am quite enjoying it. Personally I think the elves should have had Scouse accents, the small folk posh home counties accents, and the dwarves Birmingham accents.
 
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I just bought The Final Empire by Brandon. I rarely read series but I heard that you can read that as a stand-alone too so I am giving it a try.
 
Starting Toby's 'Space Captain Smith' and Jim Corbett's 'Man Eates of Kumaon' this month.
These will take me a few months to get through with my dyslexia. But hay! The more I read, the less my dyslexia will bother me!
 
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Tolkien's The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. I'm not sure I've actually read this through since I was a kid. A few affecting pieces, but not to the standard of his prose (nor, sometimes, the standard of the rhymes scattered through LOTR).

What I found interesting was the blurb note inside the jacket that this collection would be of interest to readers while they waited for another instalment in "the Hobbit epic". Bombadil was published in 1962, well after LOTR. I guess this might have been when Tolkien was still toying with the idea of a Fourth Age sequel.
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Oooh! Could you send a scan of that text?

That must have been a publisher's error. I don't know of any evidence that Tolkien intended to write more hobbit stories after LotR.
 
Reading for the second time, mostly just for pleasure, Lars Walker's as-yet-unpublished new Erling Skjalgsson novel, King of Rogaland. This will be the 5th novel in the series, the earlier books being

1.The Year of the Warrior (which is two novels in one, Erling's Word and The Ghost of the God-Tree)
2.West Oversea
3.Hailstone Mountain
4.The Elder King

These are a combination of well-informed historical fiction from the Viking age with sword-and-sorcery.

Also reading The Great Tales Never End, an anthology of scholarly essays in honor of Christopher Tolkien.

And more.
 
Started in on The Privateers by Ben Bova. Part of the Grand Tour but I'm not sure there was a Grand Tour when this was written. It's interesting to see the Soviets again and how writers thought the USSR would develop as a space faring nation.
 
Thank you for the photo! Just what I wanted to see. You’re right — it sure does make it sound like another book about hobbits was expected. I suppose the text there was written without Tolkien’s express approval. I don’t think he had any intention of writing more about them. The poem “Bilbo’s Last Song” came after TATB, but I think that wasn’t even originally intended for publication. In any event the text you’ve supplied suggests something more than a short poem.
 
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