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"Megan" <m_thomas3 RemoveThis @earthlink.net> wrote in message
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 > Also, intriguingly, assumes that the reader knows what a hobbit is.
 > If you know what a hobbit is, doesn't that imply you already know
 > information in the one-sentence FotR? (If not more?)
 >


uhm... no. for some at least. i knew what a hobbit was but until the
movies had no idea what LOTR was about. just knew hobbits from fan art and
EVERY ONE telling me i should read the books "cause you like fantasy".<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 00:57:48 -0700, "Grygon's"
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 >"Megan" <m_thomas3 RemoveThis @earthlink.net> wrote in message

  >> Also, intriguingly, assumes that the reader knows what a hobbit is.
  >> If you know what a hobbit is, doesn't that imply you already know
  >> information in the one-sentence FotR? (If not more?)
 >
 >uhm... no. for some at least. i knew what a hobbit was but until the
 >movies had no idea what LOTR was about. just knew hobbits from fan art and
 >EVERY ONE telling me i should read the books "cause you like fantasy".

Huh.

But, truly, how many Regular People spend much time with fan art
without also reading the related subject-of-fandom? Actual artists
are the main ones I can think of who would do that -- most people look
at fan art because they are fans of <subject-of-art>. So most folks
looking at pics of hobbits would be doing so because they are fans of
The Stories About Hobbits.

I guess I was generalizing. There's always a few folks who can
squeeze through the cracks and learn what hobbits are without learning
even a sentence-worth about LoTR. (Siblings of LoTR fans, perhaps,
who run out of the room when the fan-siblings starts babbling LoTR
trivia, but can't avoid seeing the big hobbit poster on fan-sibling's
bedroom door.)

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]most people look
]at fan art because they are fans of <subject-of-art>.

not me. i very often have no CLUE where the art came from.
i just like fantasy art.
so now i'm starting fantasy jewelry.

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 > In a mythic land, a young hobbit discovers that a ring owned by his
 > eccentric uncle is in fact a source of ultimate evil that must be
 > destroyed.
 >
 > An interesting one sentence summary of "Fellowship of the Ring". <g>
 >
 > Also an interesting description of Bilbo!
 >
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I sometimes feel sorry for the tv guide writers (especially
for newspaper tv scehdules) trying to cram a movie's essence
into one short sentence. Sometimes they do well,
sometimes...well...not. My wife and I used to read the
descriptions, then try to guess the movie from that.

"Young man must leave home to fight in interstellar wars".

The only real clue was 'interstellar' aka Star Wars.

Western "Three gunmen seek treasure".

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On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 06:29:25 GMT, Aaron <kem_tek.DeleteThis@hotmail.com>
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  >> In a mythic land, a young hobbit discovers that a ring owned by his
  >> eccentric uncle is in fact a source of ultimate evil that must be
  >> destroyed.
  >>
  >> An interesting one sentence summary of "Fellowship of the Ring". <g>
  >>
  >> Also an interesting description of Bilbo!
 > John Oliver
 >
 >I sometimes feel sorry for the tv guide writers (especially
 >for newspaper tv scehdules) trying to cram a movie's essence
 >into one short sentence. Sometimes they do well,
 >sometimes...well...not. My wife and I used to read the
 >descriptions, then try to guess the movie from that.
 >
 >"Young man must leave home to fight in interstellar wars".
 >
 >The only real clue was 'interstellar' aka Star Wars.

But wasn't there another movie... (off to consult IMDB)... ah, yes.
"The Last Starfighter". One of the very first movies in the "base it
on a video game" genre.

You just described the plot. :>

 >Western "Three gunmen seek treasure".

Lessee... "City Slickers 2"?

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vj found this in alt.books.m-lackey, from Megan
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]"The Last Starfighter". One of the very first movies in the "base it
]on a video game" genre.

that movie, i LOVED.

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Megan wrote:

 >
  >>Western "Three gunmen seek treasure".
 >
 >
 > Lessee... "City Slickers 2"?
 >

I'm guessing "Treasure of Sierra Madre".

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I know what a hobbit is but what is a LOTR? Never heard of one, never saw
one, never smelled or ate one, and have no interest in one unless it is
edible...


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Megan <m_thomas3 DeleteThis @earthlink.net> writes:

 >On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 06:29:25 GMT, Aaron <kem_tek DeleteThis @hotmail.com> wrote:

  >>"Young man must leave home to fight in interstellar wars".

 >But wasn't there another movie... (off to consult IMDB)... ah, yes.
 >"The Last Starfighter". One of the very first movies in the "base it
 >on a video game" genre.

Well...it was more than "based on a video game;" the video game was
part of the story (what there was of one) itself.

Which starts another chain of thought: when was the first time that
an SF story included (even as an incidental part) what would now
be likely to be described as a "computerized battle simulation"? The
actual devices have existed for a long time (I had a 1957(?) issue of
_Signal_ magazine which featured a story about simulations of naval
warfare -- and had a picture of a stepper switch with perhaps 200-300
poles that sequenced the action, but the first story I recall was
Andre Norton's _Time Traders_ which I read in 1961 or thereabouts; it
had a short scene with a computer-driven display was used in battle
simulation.

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<treyvin.RemoveThis@idirect.ca> wrote in message
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> I know what a hobbit is but what is a LOTR? Never heard of one, never saw
> one, never smelled or ate one, and have no interest in one unless it is
> edible...
>


*g*

just like Creegan on Touching Evil. "What's a google?"
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"vj" <vj.RemoveThis@vickijean.com> wrote in message
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 > vj found this in alt.books.m-lackey, from Megan
 > <m_thomas3.RemoveThis@earthlink.net> :
 >
 > ]most people look
 > ]at fan art because they are fans of <subject-of-art>.
 >
 > not me. i very often have no CLUE where the art came from.
 > i just like fantasy art.
 > so now i'm starting fantasy jewelry.
 >


me too. i just browse the galleries often having no idea what the
character is. and there is sooo many fantasy things i haven't even heard of
i'll often think the name of the character they used was original, only to a
few months later stumble into the fandom or another artist who drew the same
character with the same name. <!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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another interesting blurb but this one from the radio.

it quoted 4 characters. after each quote from FOTR (sound directly from the
movie of characters speaking) some voice over would say the name of that
character. they got each one right except:

"Cast it into the fyah!" was Aragorn.

i guess this is also a story of incest.


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]i'll often think the name of the character they used was original, only to a
]few months later stumble into the fandom or another artist who drew the same
]character with the same name.

yes.
it's what irritated me so at the State Fair.
i thought i was looking at original artwork.
i wasn't. the judges just had no clue.
then the same thing happened with the quilts and jewelry.
not an original to be found - just a bunch of people who can follow
directions.

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