Christopher Tolkien Archives - Unwinnable https://unwinnable.com/tag/christopher-tolkien/ Stories about Culture Tue, 22 Apr 2025 21:15:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://unwinnable.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-icon-1-32x32.jpg Christopher Tolkien Archives - Unwinnable https://unwinnable.com/tag/christopher-tolkien/ 32 32 Apologies to Christopher Tolkien https://unwinnable.com/2012/12/07/apologies-to-christopher-tolkien/ https://unwinnable.com/2012/12/07/apologies-to-christopher-tolkien/#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2012 11:35:42 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=38556 Someday, my great-great-grandson will crack open a small glass vial and inhale The Hobbit: The Nano-enhanced Pheromone™. My great-grandson, being more learned and experienced in the ways of life, will catch a whiff of J.R.R. Tolkien’s work emanating from his scion’s entertainment chamber and scoff, “The Hobbit: The Brainjack™ Live Experience was SO much better.” And, like the man said, so it goes. Neither were as good as the 3D Hologram, which in turn was worse than the glorious nine-hour HD movie, etc. etc. That this is the way of things is common knowledge. We learn it as children and

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