Jul. 1
A day late and far more than a dollar short, here I am reminding you that this week's Films of High Adventure column is live over at Fantasy Magazine. We take on the animated versions of The Hobbit and The Return of the King. There's nothing more to this post, but remember that small can be beautiful. Let the paining begin!
Man, that sounds like it would be a great reading list for high schoolers! And LOLZ at the spiral of DOOOOOOM--Molly and I both got a chuckle out of that as well!
Mar 23: Monster Mash: Weird Fiction Review’s Beast Party, J.M. McDermott’s newest, a Kornwolf, & a Hairy Man
Feb 16: Reading This Saturday with Jason Heller, Stephen Graham Jones, and Mario Acevedo
Jan 27: Things I Love #201201: BERSERK!
Jan 23: The Enterprise of Death Shortlisted for Kitschie Award, and Resulting Book Giveaway!
Dec 8: Future Lovecraft and Gothic Micro-Interview
Oct 17: MileHiCon 43 This Weekend
Oct 3: Short Story “Stars Fell on Alabama” Up on ChiZine
Sep 27: The Blather Before the Quiet
Sep 6: Going South—John Hornor Jacobs’s debut novel SOUTHERN GODS
Sep 4: Things I Love #201103: STEAMPUNK! BIBLES AND PILGRIMAGES!
Aug 22: Things I Love #201102: Gemma Files’s A BOOK OF TONGUES
Aug 15: Things I Love #201101: Ekaterina Sedia’s HEART OF IRON
Jun 22: Bookish Post—Recommended Reading, Good Causes, Interviews, Reviews, and a Badass Italian Cover
Jun 17: Nicolas Winding Refn
May 9: Historical Lovecraft Guest Blog: Martha Hubbard
Apr 26: World Horror Convention this weekend, and other places I’ve been, other places I’m going
Apr 12: The Art of The Enterprise of Death, a Guest Blog, and More Reviews and Interviews
Apr 5: Fantasy Literature Interview and Contest
Apr 4: State of the Moi, April 2011, Wherein the Smoke Clears, the Veil Lifts, and My Brain Regenerates
Mar 25: US Launch of The Enterprise of Death! Was Slept Through By Yours Truly!
Mar 21: The Enterprise of Death Excerpt: The Worst Beginning Imaginable
Mar 18: Japan Fundraiser Conclusion and Sundry Enterprise of Death News
Mar 14: Enterprise of Death Giveaway/Japan Fundraiser
Mar 3: The Enterprise of Death UK Launch
Feb 25: Hourra pour La Triste Histoire des Freres Grossbart!
Feb 23: Films of High Adventure: Beetle Juice
Feb 10: Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Feb 1: The Enterprise of Death Advance Reading Copy Contest RESULTS
Jan 28: Story Excerpt: “Saturday’s Children”
Jan 26: The Greatest Film of High Adventure of All Tiiiiiiime: Yor
I taught _The Hobbit_ to high school sophomores at Navajo Preparatory School in Farmington, NM from 1994-99 (along with other examples of the "Hero's Journey", including _The Odyssey_, _L'Inferno_, the Navajo Hero Twins Story, _A Midsummer Night's Dream_, and Stephen King's _Misery_. My students generally enjoyed _The Hobbit_ pretty well. After we were done with the novel, I would show the Rankin/Bass cartoon. We always got a big kick out of how no characters died on screen; instead, they would spiral away as if being flushed down an immense, screenwide commode. Watch for the spiral...
Scott Nicolay on Jul. 7, 2010 at 12:04 AM