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Post by Sìle on May 14, 2007 18:54:49 GMT -1
As I understand it, Tolkien studied the northern myths and languages and used them an inspiration for his work; certainly there are similarities in the languages of Middle Earth and those of some obscure northern cultures.
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Post by littleraven on May 14, 2007 22:31:13 GMT -1
Tolkien was a professor of languages at Oxford. He based Sindarin and Quenya on Finnish and Welsh apparently.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2007 7:30:37 GMT -1
There are definitely Celtic/Brythonic influences in his work, I remember noticing them as a child when I had my nose in the myths. The similarity between Sauron and Balor is an obvious one ... and of course, there's Beowulf.
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Post by Blackbird on May 15, 2007 15:15:49 GMT -1
Sword of Xanten was ace ;D
Completely cheesy, but with a very nice looking cast and great costumes...
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Post by arth_frown on Jun 5, 2007 19:08:36 GMT -1
How about gladiator I love his portable altar and how he wanted to be with his family in the otherworld.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2007 19:51:35 GMT -1
How about gladiator I love his portable altar and how he wanted to be with his family in the otherworld. I watched that one last night, it's one of my all time favourites  |
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Post by Blackbird on Jun 11, 2007 23:28:16 GMT -1
On about Beowulf - what happened to the film version that was being made?
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Post by Craig on Jun 12, 2007 5:45:07 GMT -1
Probably got bought up by Mel G. along with the Boudicca project...
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Post by littleraven on Jun 12, 2007 14:18:31 GMT -1
On about Beowulf - what happened to the film version that was being made? It's called Grendel and it's showing on Sky Movies Premiere at 4pm today. Damn, started 20min ago. |
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Post by suelittleowl on Jun 12, 2007 14:36:49 GMT -1
We have all of the Miyazaki - Princess Mononoke will blow you away, its main themes is the intrusion of industiralisation into a land that is still rulled by gods. There are some cute tree spirits called kodama.
Firinne - if you haven't seen Totoro you must. Dylan will love it too. Caitlin is 15 and it is still the thing we watch to de-stress.
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Post by Brochfael on Jun 12, 2007 16:06:22 GMT -1
We have all of the Miyazaki - Princess Mononoke will blow you away, its main themes is the intrusion of industiralisation into a land that is still rulled by gods. There are some cute tree spirits called kodama. Firinne - if you haven't seen Totoro you must. Dylan will love it too. Caitlin is 15 and it is still the thing we watch to de-stress. Do you think Ally would like it (she's 8 now but a little sensitive - Doctor Who gives her nightmares) |
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Post by Blackbird on Jun 13, 2007 12:52:51 GMT -1
I think she would love it. It's not scary... lots of spirits, but they are all infeasibly cute The only one I haven't seen is the new Earthsea film, done by his son. I've heard it's not a patch on the others though... I don't have Sky Movies... or actually any telly at all. Let me know if it's worth buying the DVD. |
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Post by suelittleowl on Jun 13, 2007 14:02:28 GMT -1
I don't have the Earthsea, I don't think its out yet but I have recently reread the original trilogy and the wonderful sequels that came out a couple of years ago. Wonderful. Hope the anime doesn't mangle it as much as the TV series did.
Brochfael - Ally will love Totoro, just wait until you see the Cat Bus!
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Post by Sìle on Jun 13, 2007 18:25:11 GMT -1
On about Beowulf - what happened to the film version that was being made? It was made, but they failed to get a distributor for the UK. There were one-off viewings on two occasions (I think) here in the UK, but not much else. At one point, it was available for download off the net, but I'm not sure if that is still possible. I don't have Sky Movies... or actually any telly at all. Let me know if it's worth buying the DVD. If you are referring to the DVD of Grendel, I don't believe its available, yet. I check with Blockbuster every week.  |
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Post by arth_frown on Jun 13, 2007 19:58:14 GMT -1
Try amazon.com rather than the uk version for grendel
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Post by Blackbird on Jun 15, 2007 14:43:29 GMT -1
I thought you couldn't play foreign DVDs on UK machines? (Be great if that turns out not to be true!)
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Post by littleraven on Jun 15, 2007 16:26:06 GMT -1
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Post by arth_frown on Jun 15, 2007 20:02:56 GMT -1
Don't you just hate the hype then find out it's a turkey.  |
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Post by littleraven on Jun 16, 2007 7:38:39 GMT -1
Grendel isn't so much a turkey as the bastard child of Bernard Matthews mutant turkey monster.
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