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The Lord of the Rings (BBC Dramatization) [ABRIDGED] (Audio CD)
by J.R.R. Tolkien (Author), Dramatization (Reader), Ian Holm (Reader)

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Grade 4-9-This trilogy of Tolkien's Middle Earth is presented in dramatization from the BBC, with original music and sound effects.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Dramatization
Thirteen CDs, 13 hours

In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, The Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell, by chance, into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins.

From his fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, Sauron's power spread far and wide. He gathered all the Great Rings to him, but ever he searched far and wide for the One Ring that would complete his dominion.

On his eleventy-first birthday Bilbo disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest -- to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom.

The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard, the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam, Gimli the Dwarf, Legolas the Elf, Boromir of Gondor, and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.

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Audio CD
Publisher: Random House Audio (December 1, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0553456539
ISBN-13: 978-0553456530
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 6 x 2.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds

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Writing Up vs Writing Down

12:02 AM PDT, June 8, 2006

Responding to my posting about 'The Wind in the Willows', Joseph W Kirschbaum commented: "The story... represents what should be the first goal of writers of fiction for the young: write "up" to children, never "down."

I couldn't agree more, but I wonder whether some (maybe many) of those who have achieved this were writing as much for themselves - to satisfy the child they once were within the adult they had now become - as for their young readers.

It is, I think, true of Grahame and Lewis Carroll, J R R Tolkien, Roald Dahl, Beatrix Potter and many others...

Does anyone have any thoughts on this - and examples?

* To read Brian's Personal Blog go to:
http://briansibleysblog.blogspot.com/

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Why ‘The Wind in the Willows’?

8:10 AM PDT, May 23, 2006

When I recently launched my personal blog (http://briansibleysblog.blogspot.com), I listed as one of my favourite books Kenneth Grahame’s ‘The Wind in the Willows’ and was intrigued to find that if I clicked on the hyperlink, it took me to literally dozens of other bloggers who had also chosen ‘Willows’.

Why, I wondered do so many of us hold this book so dear? I think it may have something to do with the fact that it is at several books in one: a beautifully lyrical portrayal of life in the woodlands and by the riverbanks of rural England; an often-poignant study of home and friendship intercut with the harum-scarum continuing soap-opera adventures of the preposterous Mr Toad!

Grahame’s characters have the curious ability to be, by turn, animals following the natural behaviour and instincts of, say, the mole and the badger; or hybrid creations that might best be described as "people with animal masks" thus enabling a toad to drive a motorcar and wear the clothes of a washerwoman.

It is a book, above all, that whilst being set in the real world at the beginning of the twentieth century, has a parallel existence in what Shakespeare and others would have known as ‘the world of faery’.

Perhaps it’s the fact that the book operates on such a startling multiplicity of levels that intrigues and beguiles us so…

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What I ENVY about REAL Writers…

3:49 AM PDT, May 10, 2006

The greatest obstacle confronting every writer is that it is difficult to achieve recognition by doing what anybody and (practically) everybody can do!

Most of us can write on some level: business letters, e-mails, memos and reports or even simply the note to the milkman or the “wish you were here” on the backside of a holiday postcard. Once we have learned the basics of how to “do it”, writing loses its essential mystique. If we have never learned to dance or to play the piano, we remain in awe of anyone who can do those things. The writer never quite has the same respect; writers simply do the thing we can do - just more often and perhaps rather better!

Of course, I’m being cynical but what I envy about real writers is their ability to write when they don’t HAVE to! Or, rather, when the imperative and the urgency to write are of their own making. That is the gift that has been given to all the best writers: the urge to tell their stories, yarns and tales, spin webs of the imagination to trap us and hold us like flies.

How do they do this? Who knows other than the deities who supervise the distribution of such talents? Of course, just as we can, more or less, all do the business of putting words on paper - or, nowadays, the screen - so we can all tell stories: the bedtime fantasies we recount to our children about their favourite nursery companions; the comic elaborations with which we daily embroider our conversations; even the downright lies we hear ourselves inventing from petty and insignificant fibs to myths with life-changing potential…

What the real writers do is WRITE! Regardless of whether they have to or need to, they write…

Anthony Trollope it is said (and, who knows, maybe he was exaggerating) wrote 1000 words an hour for three hours every day - before breakfast! Ray Bradbury, still publishing stories, poems and essays at the age of 85, writes something new every single day…

So I guess that’s how it works - you have to be holding the pen or having your hands hovering over the keyboard ready to catch those errant thoughts and ideas and turn them into words, sentences and paragraphs. That it involves discipline doesn’t lessen the artistry - any more than that of musicians who practices their instruments or dancers who rehearses at the bar for hours.

I am reminded of an exchange in one of my favourite books, ‘The House at Pooh Corner’. Winnie-the-Pooh has been humming up a hum to himself (“Noise, by Pooh”) when he is overheard by the ever-efficient Rabbit, who asks if Pooh had “made that song up.”

Pooh modestly replies: “Well, I sort of made it up … It isn’t Brain, because You Know Why, Rabbit; but it comes to me sometimes.”

A. A. Milne then records (and comments on) the reply: “‘Ah!’ said Rabbit, who never let things come to him, but always went and fetched them.”

Actually, Milne is being a little disingenuous because - being himself a ceaseless prolific writer - he knew that the truth about writing is that it is not just about waiting for the muse to stoop and kiss the writer’s brow, but about going out and catching the muse and refusing to let it go until the kiss has been bestowed!

That’s what I envy about REAL writers…