Well, my cable has been going on and off a lot. Fun. Anyway, while I'm still on, as a service to Blogburst participants (not to mention me) I'm putting up these links to all the Tolkien-related posts from my old blog. These are the ones with substance anyway. Enjoy:
December 18, 2002: What do they eat when they can't get hobbit? -- a critique of a David Brin article on the films and fantasy in general that I thought showed surprising cluelessness towards the genre for a science fiction author.
December 19, 2002: The Hobbit Socialist Party -- I remark upon silly letters to Salon in response to their version of Brin's article.
December 21, 2002: Revenge of the Nerdy-Eyed -- the famousest one of all! (Addendum to this: I said "Deconstruction" when I meant any number of other soul-desiccating academic theories -- the writer I'm attacking doesn't seem too interested in the marginal, the other, or the different, despite his litany of titles of the myth-collections of the entire earth; that was just the one that came to mind, probably because I am still recovering from having to read Derrida last semester.)
December 22, 2002: Banned in Massachusetts, burned out in Middle-Earth, a short smack upside two movie reviewers' heads.
December 25, 2002: Reviewer Follies coninued -- self-explanatory.
December 25, 2002: Two Roads that don't meet -- I had a field day on Christmas; here's a criticism of a favorable review.
December 28, 2002: Diversions -- this one's not very serious.
December 31st, 2002: There's no myth like old myth? -- a followup commentary on Revenge of the Nerdy-Eyed.
Posted by Andrea Harris at January 4, 2003 12:18 AMI am so glad I found your blog. I can bask in the lovely Tolkien glow [sigh]
Bed time now. I shall put off rereading Unfinshed Tales till tomorrow. (really!)
Posted by: Ith at January 4, 2003 at 03:08 AM