Re: Article in the "Village Voice" about the Tolkien Movies

En réponse à Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>:

> http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0123/dibbell.shtml
>
> interesting...
>
> the end of it seems to have some significance for conlanging...
>
Well, I don't really like to be called a nerd or a geek (not that I'm not one,
but I like to think that I don't fit into any category :) ), nor that I have the
"mental age of a child" (at least for this one the author didn't subscribe to it
but merely quoted somebody else), but for the rest I must say that this is
terribly accurate.

But French critics are not that bad compared to American critics towards
Tolkien. Two months ago I even saw a French critic on TV advocating that every
one should read at least once LotR (and it was not on a program about the
up-coming trilogy, but simply on a cultural magazine). Strangely enough, as I
saw it written by Stephen King, American fantasy and SF have always had a better
welcome in France than in the US...

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

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