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ourdramaqueen) wrote2008-06-24 11:05 pm
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"The Music of The Lord of the Rings" update
Wheee, it's making progress! Author Doug Adams is even giving us a sneak preview of it... sort of! As he writes, "Click for a better look, but don't lean in too closely, you're apt to do your eyes permanent harm!" :D
http://themusicofthelordoftheringsfilms.blogspot.com/2008/06/book-update-june-2008.html
Also, courtesy of Kristin Thompson:
http://www.kristinthompson.net/blog/?p=287
tempest in a teapot indeed!
Back on May 24, I posted a piece called “Relax: The Times’ Story about the Lawsuit Is a Tempest in a Teapot.” There I pointed out that the piece published in the London Times, “Hobbit movies meet dire foe in the son of Tolkien,” was essentially a overly dramatic rehash of already-known facts, with a some errors and an unattributed quotation tossed in.
Today, as TheOneRing.net points out, the Times printed an apology to Christopher Tolkien, admitting that the piece contained mistakes and misleading passages. There’s no separate URL for it, and the story is bound to scroll off the “News in Brief” page soon, so instead of linking it, I’ll quote it in full:
In our report of the litigation between the Tolkien family and New Line Cinema, producers of The Lord of the Rings (May 25), we did not make it clear that Christopher Tolkien is suing as a trustee of the Tolkien Trust, a registered charity, and the JRR Tolkien 1967 Discretionary Settlement. It was another member of the family who referred to the action as “one last crusade”, not Mr Tolkien, and the hearing on June 6 was to fix a date for the eventual trial, not actually to halt Hollywood plans to film The Hobbit. We apologise to the trustees and Mr Tolkien for these errors.
So essentially a complete retraction, given that all the other content of the story came from the February 11 lawsuit complaint and was hardly news by that point.
I’m annoyed that these days the media try to ramp up the excitement of an already dramatic situation. It’s not enough that the Trust is suing New Line, but it has to be made to sound like a vengeful personal crusade. Add the inaccuracies, and you have a story that should never have been written. And it shouldn’t have taken nearly a month for this retraction, either. This misleading piece caused a lot of fans to worry about whether The Hobbit, after so many delays, would be scotched altogether. I hope my comments on the original story helped to stem some of that worry.
ETA: TORn have posted another Tolkien Flashback.
http://themusicofthelordoftheringsfilms.blogspot.com/2008/06/book-update-june-2008.html
Also, courtesy of Kristin Thompson:
http://www.kristinthompson.net/blog/?p=287
tempest in a teapot indeed!
Back on May 24, I posted a piece called “Relax: The Times’ Story about the Lawsuit Is a Tempest in a Teapot.” There I pointed out that the piece published in the London Times, “Hobbit movies meet dire foe in the son of Tolkien,” was essentially a overly dramatic rehash of already-known facts, with a some errors and an unattributed quotation tossed in.
Today, as TheOneRing.net points out, the Times printed an apology to Christopher Tolkien, admitting that the piece contained mistakes and misleading passages. There’s no separate URL for it, and the story is bound to scroll off the “News in Brief” page soon, so instead of linking it, I’ll quote it in full:
In our report of the litigation between the Tolkien family and New Line Cinema, producers of The Lord of the Rings (May 25), we did not make it clear that Christopher Tolkien is suing as a trustee of the Tolkien Trust, a registered charity, and the JRR Tolkien 1967 Discretionary Settlement. It was another member of the family who referred to the action as “one last crusade”, not Mr Tolkien, and the hearing on June 6 was to fix a date for the eventual trial, not actually to halt Hollywood plans to film The Hobbit. We apologise to the trustees and Mr Tolkien for these errors.
So essentially a complete retraction, given that all the other content of the story came from the February 11 lawsuit complaint and was hardly news by that point.
I’m annoyed that these days the media try to ramp up the excitement of an already dramatic situation. It’s not enough that the Trust is suing New Line, but it has to be made to sound like a vengeful personal crusade. Add the inaccuracies, and you have a story that should never have been written. And it shouldn’t have taken nearly a month for this retraction, either. This misleading piece caused a lot of fans to worry about whether The Hobbit, after so many delays, would be scotched altogether. I hope my comments on the original story helped to stem some of that worry.
ETA: TORn have posted another Tolkien Flashback.
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