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I am sorry to report that I was disappointed by The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first installment of Peter Jackson’s film trilogy based on J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit.

Jackson’s first mistake was trying to make a trilogy at all. The Hobbit is shorter than any of the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings. Thus its story could have been told completely and satisfyingly in a single movie of around two hours.

O Expurgo do Condado

Greg Johnson

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Uma das minhas partes favoritas de O Senhor dos Anéis é o livro 6, capítulo 8, “O Expurgo do Condado”, o penúltimo capítulo de O Retorno do Rei. Read more …

Published: January 15, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Freikorps, Greg Johnson, in Portuguese, in translation, J. R. R. Tolkien, National Socialism, North American New Right, the Jewish question, The Lord of the Rings, veterans | Comments closed

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The Scouring of the Shire

Greg Johnson

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Portuguese translation here

One of my favorite parts of The Lord of the Rings is book 6, chapter 8, “The Scouring of the Shire,” the penultimate chapter of The Return of the King. Read more …

Published: January 3, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Freikorps, Greg Johnson, J. R. R. Tolkien, National Socialism, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question, The Lord of the Rings, veterans | Comments closed

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The Spanish Films of Guillermo del Toro

Trevor Lynch

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Guillermo del Toro is a Mexican director whose films I have been watching since I learned he was directing The Hobbit, which is being produced by Peter Jackson, the director of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. As a LOTR fanatic, I wanted to get a sense of how Del Toro might handle The Hobbit. This is the first of three reviews I hope to write on his work so far.

The Return of The King

Trevor Lynch

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It was one minute past midnight, one last time. I knew The Return of The King would be a great movie, and it is. The only question in my mind was, “How great?”

Return is not as good as The Two Towers, my favorite Rings movie, but it is a magnificent, moving film, that will not disappoint, and taken together the Rings movies are certainly the greatest movie trilogy ever made, and rank among the greatest achievements in film history.

The Two Towers

Trevor Lynch

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It was one minute past midnight again, exactly 364 days after the opening of The Fellowship of the Ring, the first of The Lord of the Rings movies, and I was back for the opening of The Two Towers. I loved the first movie so much that I was fully expecting to be disappointed. There’s nowhere to go from here but down, I thought. So I was moved to tears of absolute delight that The Two Towers is even better than The Fellowship of the Ring.

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The Fellowship of the Ring

Trevor Lynch

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At one minute past midnight on Wednesday, December 19th, 2001, I was one of hundreds of people assembled in several sold-out theaters to see the Atlanta opening of Lord of the Rings. I was astonished that hundreds of people had gathered to watch a three-hour movie starting after midnight. Read more …