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J.R.R. Tolkien Reveals TRUE Meaning Of 'The Lord Of The Rings' In Unearthed Audio Recording
This somewhat breathless author makes it sound like the "true meaning of LotR" was some as-yet-unguessed secret other than a critique of industrialization, modern warfare, and the grasping greedy arc of Western civilization, but to judge by the comments I doubt that's the case. Pesonally, I'm interested in whether this will add something new to the corpus of either Quenya or Sindarin (it'd be a shame if we only get the translation). Anyway, quite interesting.
Over 20 years ago, a lost recording of J.R.R. Tolkien was discovered in a basement in Rotterdam, but the man who found it kept this important reel-to-reel tape hidden away. ... it proves once and for all that Professor Tolkien was, in fact, very much the hobbit that we all suspected him to be. What's more, we get to hear Tolkien reading a lost poem in the Elven tongue which he translates into English. And to top it off, he states in unambiguous terms (cue Rohirrim war trumpets) the real meaning of The Lord of the Rings! ...
Legendarium and the Tolkien site MiddleEarthNetwork.com have partnered with van Rossenberg to raise both awareness and funds in order to remaster the original reel-to-reel tape, chronicle the event, and make it available to the world this fall via the Rotterdam Project.
This somewhat breathless author makes it sound like the "true meaning of LotR" was some as-yet-unguessed secret other than a critique of industrialization, modern warfare, and the grasping greedy arc of Western civilization, but to judge by the comments I doubt that's the case. Pesonally, I'm interested in whether this will add something new to the corpus of either Quenya or Sindarin (it'd be a shame if we only get the translation). Anyway, quite interesting.
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