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Hey Twitter still works! Man, been a while since I last logged in...but today's the perfect day to jump back in because it's #SilmFilm day! We're streaming live talking about Beren and Luthien's rollercoaster relationship drama during their quest. #Tolkien #Silmarillion #LOTR
It's SilmFilm day! Head to the website for links to join the fun at 10pm ET:
mythgard.org/silmfilm/
#SilmFilm
But before we get into the CW-style relationship melodrama, we're first talking about #bodyhorror in #Tolkien, specifically Beren and Lúthien's transformations into Draugluin and Thuringwethil by way of the monsters' carcasses. Fun! #SilmFilm #Tolkien #Silmarillion #LOTR
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Time for another #SilmFilm session, the only thing that prompts me to come on Twitter these days, apparently. Tonight is a big one: Luthien vs. Sauron! Let's gooooooo! #Silmarillion #Tolkien #LOTR
It's SilmFilm day! Head to the website for links to join the fun at 10pm ET:
mythgard.org/silmfilm/
#SilmFilm
Also, you witnessed (or didn't, technically) Finrod die non-canonically, offscreen, and anti-climactically in @LOTRonPrime #TheRingsOfPower! now come hear #SilmFilm's more canonical(ish) take! #Silmarillion #Tolkien #LOTR
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Hey, look at that! The first brand new episode of #SilmFilm in 2023. We've survived another year of pandemic, as well as toxic online discourse about #TheRingsOfPower, and we're ready to go deep on #Tolkien's #Silmarillion! Join @tolkienprof @nickpalaz0123 and myself live!
The Silmarillion Film Project: Season 6, Session 22 xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1yoKMZlOL…
Tonight's session is the Season 6 casting call, and this is a big one: we're searching for our Beren! #SilmFilm #Silmarillion #Tolkien
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Been a while! But had to come back to live tweet tonight's #SilmFilm! Gonna be a fun one tonight: Beren wreaks inadvertant political havoc in Nargothrond. Had a great pre-episode chat with @tolkienprof, looking forward to bringing it to the episode! #Silmarillion #Tolkien #LOTR
It's SilmFilm day! Head to the website for links to join the fun at 10pm ET:
mythgard.org/silmfilm/
#SilmFilm
@tolkienprof kicks us off with reflections about how fleshing out #Silmarillion stories often produces dissonance because certain decisions become hard to understand or sympathize with. Exhibit A: why does Beren force the Oath of Barahir on Finrod? #SilmFilm #Tolkien #LOTR (1/?)
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I joined the #TwitterMigration to #MastodonSocial. Seems prudent to diversify platforms, and I'm not doing Instagram. I'm not. 🤣 I was happy to see the @DAIRInstitute community has a server so I joined to follow my favorite ML folks. Find me at @davekale@dair-community.social!
#SilmFilm is back! Unlike @LOTRonPrime #TheRingsOfPower we don't take multi-year hiatuses (because we're not making a real TV show...yet!). Anyway, if you need your pre-Third Age #Tolkien adaptation fix, join us live or listen later!
Tonight: BEREN AND LUTHIEN! #Silmarillion
The Silmarillion Film Project, Season 6, Session 18 xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1lPKqBPVP…
Beren and Luthien: a much more compelling human and elf romance where the characters have believable chemistry and one of them is NOT predictably the primary villain in disguise. #Sauron #SilmFilm #Tolkien #Silmarillion
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He is definitely the #LOTR Best Boy.
Aye, and what heady days those were. #TheRingsOfPower
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I agree! The letter that Jim highlights reads like an outline for #TheRingsOfPower. TROP has very #Tolkien ideas, but that doesn’t inoculate it against criticism of execution. The mithril storyline is IMO a clumsy rendering of “elves seeking preservation” concept, for example.
Processing the Rings of Power first season, I’ve been reading Tolkien’s 1951 letter to Milton Waldman, a prospective publisher of The Silmarillion. I’m concluding that, time compression aside, the RoP writers are including more core Tolkien than I’ve been giving them credit.
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I would like it know that while #Tolkien obsessives talked ourselves in circles about Sauron’s identity, my screenwriter wife @teresakale called it in the first episode and stuck by her call the entire season.
We all forgot that #TheRingsOfPower is first and foremost a TV show.
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Celebrating the #TheRingsOfPower season finale with a Miruvor-inspired gin and elderflower-based cocktail. Hopefully it will see me through the moments of hopelessness brought on by the much-reviled mithril storyline. 😁
Yes, I know, it’s in a beer glass. We do what we must.
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Worth noting: the mithril storyline doesn’t bother me nearly as much as it bothers others! I just like playing along with the unrest. On the other hand, I’m also pretty uninterested in anything to do with elves on this show thus far. #TheRingsOfPower
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This line is sticking in my brain. By all appearances, Mystics are searching for Sauron but following Meteor Man. If he’s not Sauron in some form (several options here), then they’ve screwed up despite their apparent knowledge and competence? Feels wrong. #TheRingsOfPower (1/N)
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The main issue, which @teresakale keeps reminding me about, is that the Galadriel-Halbrand arc really makes way more sense if he is Sauron. At least he needs to betray her and give Sauron a significant assist. So how does Meteor Man as Sauron work? #TheRingsOfPower (2/N)
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Did anyone else notice this in #TheRingsOfPower
Episode 1 or 2: Arondir tells Bronwyn that elves have no equivalent of a “healer” because they just heal from wounds, etc.
Episode 7: Galadriel tells Bronwyn that Halbrand’s wound needs Elvish medicine
Make it make sense!
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After a few days’ hiatus, I’m back with a #TheRingsOfPower hot take….
#Andor is better than TROP.
I can’t believe I’m saying this! I am NOT a fan of Rogue One (thin story, embarrassing levels of fan service). But Andor so far is what I want from franchise storytelling. (1/?)
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Original characters, stories, and locations set in a universe I love, with some connections and references but not layering it on like RO.
Interestingly #Andor feels less like a prequel to RO and more like a second better attempt at telling a Rebellion origin story. (2/?)
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If you’re in the Orange County area today, come to the OC Children’s Book Festival @kidsbookfest (kidsbookfestival.com/) and swing by the @literati Book Fair booth. We have author signings, discounted books, and wonderful conversation about literature #TodayWeRead
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View from the @literati booth: the main stage! We’re also conveniently located right next to @Pollyspiescafe, the main stage, and all the food trucks! #TodayWeRead @kidsbookfest
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