My Sincere Apologies, Professor Tolkien!!!

[arontius]

.....They know not what they do!!!!!

.....Umm, hmmm, when I think of J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Silmarillion,' I don't think I've ever thought of it in the context of a comic book. Not even really in the form of a graphic novel either. But someone has taken it in that direction.

.....WARNING: WHAT IS SEEN CANNOT BE UNSEEN!

.....Take a look at it here:

.....<http://spiegelscherben.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4ixkz6>

.....When I read the tragedy of the loss of the two trees of Valinor, the rending of Telperion and Laurelin, by the evil of Melkor and the giant spider Ungoliant, what I see in my mind's eye is not exactly the equivalent of what I see here. The next time I pick up my copy of The Silmarilion and read of this tragedy, am I going to instead see fuzzy headed troll dolls uttering colloquial American word phrases?

.....For some reason I'm rendered somewhat speechless by this artistic interpretation.

.....Um, Wow!

.....Aaron / Arontius.

Comments

[copper-oxide.livejournal.com]

On the positive side. When he was young, Gavin had major difficulties with reading due to learning disabilities. I searched all over for graphic novels with a content/story line that wasn't intellectually insulting. I actually found a good graphic novel of The Hobbit. It was wonderful for him. This was quite a few years ago and the graphics were not as cartoony-anime, which was good. And it was interesting enough that, with some other graphic novels, it did make his desire to read overcome his fear that he could not.
In Middle School, he had to write a report on "Frankenstein" with encouragement from his art teacher and me, the English Teacher let him draw a graphic novel on it. My God it was good!!! I still have a copy, I wonder how many copies of the written reports were kept by the kids parents?

I don't like the Spiegelscherben either, but if I had to choose between that and nothing for a non-reader, I sure the hell would choose the Spiegelscherben.

Or, am I off on a tangent again ;-)?

The Hobbit - Graphic Novel.

[arontius]

I've actually read at least one version of a graphic novel of 'The Hobbit' that was pretty good. So I believe you are correct and that it can be done. But The Silmarillion? It would be difficult to do justice with a graphic novel. Although there have been some graphic novel issues of biblical stories that were rather nicely done. So I suppose that it is possible even here.

But this was not one of them. :-)

A.

Re: The Hobbit - Graphic Novel.

[copper-oxide.livejournal.com]

I really do agree with you that the particular rendering of the Silmarillion was ludicrous.

If publishing companies knew what was good for the world they would hire Gavin to illustrate books, he would be sooooo good at it. (Do I sound like a Mom?)