If you had your choice, would you have wanted George Lucas to stop after 1977?

Author: Easterhay
Time: 2-Sep-2010 5:16 AM
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TheBoost said:

Easterhay said:

As it goes, I don't think Lucas comes anywhere Tolkien, though, when it comes to overegging the cake where backstory is concerned. Not that I want to introduce Lord Of The Rings and its increasingly dull spin-offs to the conversation.

There are LOTR spin-offs? You mean the Silmarillion?

I mean The Silmarillion, The Book Of Lost Tales and Unfinished Tales. Children Of Hurin - which indeed was by Christopher Tolkien, taken from notes by JRR - was so badly written it made his grandfather look like Stephen King.

That's some bad hat, Harry

Author: TheBoost
Time: 2-Sep-2010 11:05 AM
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Easterhay said:

TheBoost said:

There are LOTR spin-offs? You mean the Silmarillion?

I mean The Silmarillion, The Book Of Lost Tales and Unfinished Tales. Children Of Hurin - which indeed was by Christopher Tolkien, taken from notes by JRR - was so badly written it made his grandfather look like Stephen King.

Excepting small parts of the Sillmarillion, Chris Tolkien didn't write any of those. His contributions ammount to annotations, explanations on why the stories are not complete, and I beleive changing names to be consistent with the names in LOTR.

Calling these wokrs "spinoffs" would be akin to calling "Empire of Dreams" "Deleted Magic," "Secret History of Star Wars" or the new deleted scene from ROTJ spinoffs.

I'm also not sure what Arthur Tolkien, a bank manager and Chris Tolkien's grandfather, would have to do with it.