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- From: Ari.Huttunen@hut.fi (Ari Huttunen)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.tolkien
- Subject: Re: Tolkien comics
- Date: 23 Jan 93 19:54:27
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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- In-reply-to: f1toyl@uta.fi's message of 19 Jan 93 12:15:29 GMT
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- In article <8226@kielo.uta.fi> f1toyl@uta.fi (Topi Ylinen) writes:
-
- ! Ha! I've finally found it - or rather them. Three comic book albums:
- ! Fellowship parts 1 and 2 and Two Towers part 1. (TT part 2 and Return
- ! of the King parts 1 and 2 seemingly never came out - a note in the the
- ! TT part 1 says that it is the last book).
-
- If that's true, then they are not drawn by David Wenzel. It's my
- understanding that he's doing the whole Lord of the Rings. At least
- I have his version of The Hobbit. Recommended. You might try
- asking Eclipse Books, P.O. Box 1099, Forestville, California 95436.
- Or just try a local comics store.
-
- ! The books are Finnish, but they have obviously been translated (from
- ! English)? The art is far superior to that in Finland.
-
- Ignore that last sentence. ;-)
-
- ! The credits mention
- ! Elan Merchandising Inc. and Tolkien Enterprises but aside that there is
- ! no clue where the books are from.
-
- No ISBN?
-
- ! The stories are naturally a simplified version, but reasonably faithful
- ! to JRRT's books. (I find them - even with occasional lapses - far more
- ! faithful than the recent artwork done by that artist whose name I cannot
- ! recall).
-
- I have a feeling most of the speech bubbles(?) in this comic
- contain original text from the book. It's quite entertaining...
-
- ...............................................................................
- Ari Huttunen Whenever you find that you are on the side of
- the majority, it is time to reform.
-