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I was very pleased to read The Independent review.
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I wrote about the Newsnight clip on my Live Journal and an abridged version of my write-up follows:
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BBC Newsnight had a 10 minute feature on The Children of Húrin on Monday night, around 11pm.
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This included two brief clips from an interview with the Prof himself, filmed in 1968 but never broadcast before. In this old black-and-white footage, Tolkien was talking about the Elves and "their fight with the devil in the North of what is our world" - he meant Morgoth, of course.
I've got a CD of Tolkien reading passages from LOTR, which is lovely (LOTR sounds so fabulous when read aloud!), but in this old footage he was actually quite difficult to listen to: he had a rich, comfortable voice, but spoke rather indistinctly. I had to replay the footage twice because I found it so hard to hear what he was saying. Makes you wonder what it must have been like to have attended his lectures!! His long, rambling sentences were a bit Treebeard-like. I wouldn't have been surprised to hear him go "hoom, ha, ah now, that is a bit hasty".
Oh, and the BBC opened this tasty morsel of a featurette with one of my favourite scenes from TTT:EE: Éowyn's lament at Théodred's funeral.
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Now, that showed a lot of care and thought ... they'd deliberately chosen a clip from the film trilogy that was about death and mourning, in order to make the connection with the bleak sadness of the Húrin family saga. I was impressed.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6564953.stm