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matrixrefugeeLOTR fans among my readers, take note.
****1/2 out of *****
I spotted this in Blockbuster Video the other day and it looked so quirky, I just had to take it out. It's the brainchild of the wonks at TheOneRing.Net, with Dominic "Merry Brandybuck" Monaghan narrating. Basically, it chronicles the LOTR fandom and how J.R.R. Tolkien unwittingly created -- or rather "sub-created" -- a whole new genre of imaginative fiction. Unlike some it's more staid BBC counterparts, this film is loveably goofy, full of tidbits about the oddballs in the fandom, from a guy in London in the 1960s who started a Tolkien-themed hippie commune he called "Gandalf's Garden" to a couple in California who lovingly built and maintained a small roadside attraction with diaromas of scenes from "The Hobbit" (Did you know that the Beatles wanted to make an LOTR movie?) to the modern-day fans of the movie and the Internet community of Tolkien fans. The filmstock is a little pixellated (at first I thought there was something wrong with my DVD player), and I was a little disappointed that Tolkien's deep Catholic faith, which influenced his writing, was never mentioned, but it's a neat, fun little film, clearly a labor of fannish love. Tolkien would be rather embarassed by this film (and he was mortified by the amount of fannish attention he got for his work), but I hope he'd be able to see the love that went into filming it.
****1/2 out of *****
I spotted this in Blockbuster Video the other day and it looked so quirky, I just had to take it out. It's the brainchild of the wonks at TheOneRing.Net, with Dominic "Merry Brandybuck" Monaghan narrating. Basically, it chronicles the LOTR fandom and how J.R.R. Tolkien unwittingly created -- or rather "sub-created" -- a whole new genre of imaginative fiction. Unlike some it's more staid BBC counterparts, this film is loveably goofy, full of tidbits about the oddballs in the fandom, from a guy in London in the 1960s who started a Tolkien-themed hippie commune he called "Gandalf's Garden" to a couple in California who lovingly built and maintained a small roadside attraction with diaromas of scenes from "The Hobbit" (Did you know that the Beatles wanted to make an LOTR movie?) to the modern-day fans of the movie and the Internet community of Tolkien fans. The filmstock is a little pixellated (at first I thought there was something wrong with my DVD player), and I was a little disappointed that Tolkien's deep Catholic faith, which influenced his writing, was never mentioned, but it's a neat, fun little film, clearly a labor of fannish love. Tolkien would be rather embarassed by this film (and he was mortified by the amount of fannish attention he got for his work), but I hope he'd be able to see the love that went into filming it.
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