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Oct 8, 2009 6:51 PM
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The other day I watched the episode "Tolkien's Monsters" which was basically about the Lord of The Rings and its History. I am a huge Tolkien fan, I have read all his books and those that his son edited and finished. Basically, I was very excited at first to see an episode about this but in the end it turned out to be awful. Many of the things that were said were false, and I would have thought that for being such a huge channel , they could have done a better job and gotten there facts right. Their were so many things said that were incorrect about Middle Earth, it's creatures, and it's History. Anyone that didn't know much about it would have gotten false information. Needless to say, just from this single episode I was discouraged to watch any others because now I can't even believe anything that is said for I am always wondering if it is just opinion and not fact. If maybe a member of the history channel could clear things up on why they did this it would be great. Thanks.
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Salt Lake City
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Oct 11, 2009 4:34 PM
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They also ignored the huge influence of Der Ring Des Niebelungen.
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Nov 6, 2009 1:46 PM
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Overall been a fan of the series of "Clash of the Gods". Seen other episodes like the story behind the clash of the titans and found them to be quiet informative. Having been a Tolkien fan for all of my adolescent and adult life I am pretty familiar with all of his works and his influences. I cannot argue that WWI was not an influence on Tolkien or that Tolkien's Catholic background did not influence his works but I think this episode skews the importance of these on his works as opposed to classic anglo-saxon mythos or even finnish mythology. At the end of the day he was trying to create his own mythology similar to what was represented in Beowulf or other Finnish/Norse/Celtic Mythology.
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