The first article I saw was at https://winteriscoming.net/2021/04/02/watch-soviet-era-russian-adaptation-lord-rings/

And then the BBC did some coverage at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56641258 which is excellent mainly because of the interview with someone who remembers the original release, and what it said about the state of the Soviet Union at the time.

Enjoy...

Anyway, the passage which caught my eye was this - the context is that Arthur has taken a bunch of knights and soldiers eastwards in a kind of holy quest to crush evil, and has just reached the borders of a forest called Mirkwood:

                       Gawain loudly

cried as a clarion. Clear went his voice
In the rocks ringing above roaring wind 
and rolling thunder: ‘Ride, forth to war,
ye hosts of ruin, hate proclaiming!
Foes we fear not, nor fell shadows
of the dark mountains demon-haunted!
Hear now ye hills and hoar forest,
ye awful thrones of olden gods
huge and hopeless, hear and tremble!
From the West comes war that no wind daunteth,
might and purpose that no mist stayeth;
lord of legions, light in darkness, 
east rides Arthur!’ Echoes were wakened.

And this in turn reminded me of Theoden when restored by Gandalf, and before the battle of the Pelennor Fields:

Arise now, arise, Riders of Théoden!
Dire deeds awake: dark is it eastward.
Let horse be bridled, horn be sounded!
Forth Eorlingas!

and

Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden!
Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter!
Spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered,
a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!
Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor![

Together with Eomer's cry of despair when he thinks Eowyn is dead:

Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world's ending!

Clearly he has borrowed his own earlier work, and repurposed it for the Rohirrim. All of which made me wonder if he did this just because he had a great love for this poetic form, or whether he had in mind a connection between Theoden and Arthur?

Also https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39892831-tolkien-treasures

which is a most beautiful little book which I chanced to see in a local art shop here in Grasmere. It's predominantly pictorial with only some short prose sections laying out little bits of background. Very little of the prose came as a surprise (though I did find something that bears on @Ray_Otus 's post on the original Hobbit edition) but the pictures are splendid! The author / publisher has presented a lot of the pictures with the whole ting on one side and a zoomed-in portion facing, so you can see detail.

Apparently it's a short version of Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth which has much more prose and quite a lot more pictures, but this was a delight to find.

O Orofarnë, Lassemista, Carnimírië!
O rowan fair, upon your hair how white the blossom lay

Hey, all.

I just finished the copy-and-paste portion of compiling our Slow Read of Lord of the Rings into a single text. Took me about 3 hours total (including a program crash and lost work).

I haven't started any cleanup yet (so there's lots of junk picked up from the copy-and-paste), but the total is 166,108 words, about a third of the total of LotR itself!

This is going to be quite an artifact when it's finally wrought!

Unless anyone minds, I guess I'll post sporadic updates to this thread, so subscribe if you're interested!

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