I was in touch with Julia Golding and Leith McPherson (from The Hobbit movie team - she is a known language coach working with the actors). Check the movie at 01:11 - you will hear my Neo Quenya and Neo Black Speech translations told by Leith McPherson:
"He also invented his own languages. From the beautiful language of the elves to the terrible Black Speech of Sauron."
I have also prepared the Polish subtitles for them (I hope they will be added) and I made Tengwar for their logo (can you read it? - it is in English):
I want to add also this:
I disagree with people who have seemed to be very hostile to the Project Northmoor in the last days. I can read in some places that it has "secretive Christian aspects" or that some people involved are "bigoted". It sounds ridiculous. I worry that not only my Catholic reading of Tolkien would be called "bigoted" by these critics but also real J. R. R. Tolkien with his Marian devotion, his everyday Holy Masses, his prayers and Christian advice in his conversations and in his letters would be called "bigoted".
Project Northmoor is open to everyone, it is supported by people who are very far from being bigots and far-right (like Ian McKellen or Martin Freeman or Leith McPherson etc.). Why some people in our fandom seem to be hostile to these people? I don't understand. But I am optimistic and I believe that we will buy this House, it will be saved before it comes to other non-Tolkienist hands.
Theories about "secretive Christians" are conspiracy theories
Your final words are telling, of one who does not like questions being asked. Concerns about this project are not aimed at religion but at the motives of the project leaders. You facilitate it yourself when you say "But I am optimistic and I believe that we will buy this House, it will be saved before it comes to other non-Tolkienist hands" and then ask readers and fans to donate. You are asking them to donate to 'save' Tolkien's house from the 'non-Tolkienists' as if the house is in danger under the stewardship of private ownership. Well the house fell into private hands upon its creation and never needed a charity to protect it. After Tolkien it spent 70 years happily acting as a family home. Yet now at the say so of the project you support, it 'needs saving'. And this is the crux of the issue. The project and by association you are asking fans to donate money using what I will politely describe as 'stretching the truth', others will call it lies but the emotional hook remains the same. Making Tolkien fans think that they have to save a house that is already safe.
I don't undestrand this kind of hostility towards people who finally have chance to buy Tolkien's house and to open it for fans searching for people like them.
The Tolkien Society doesn't want to do it, the Tolkien family doesn't want to do it. We will do it.
Nothing I wrote is hostile. I will add that by their own admission they will not "open it for fans searching for people like them". Nothing of the sort so why are you pushing that angle?
I will ask some specific question as you support this project and with your own words feel this house needs "saving from the non Tolkienists". The project do not seem so far to think these concerns need addressing.
Why do you feel this house needs saving? What is it being saved from? What possible detrimental outcome could happen to this building if the project does not buy it? A Grade II listed building I might add.
Do you think it fair that fans are being told that the house 'needs saving' when the house DOES NOT need saving?
If you can't adequately answer the above then I question whether you understand what this project is about.
You state that "The Tolkien Society doesn't want to do it, the Tolkien family doesn't want to do it. We will do it." I would suggest that neither 'want' to do it because there is no need to do it.
Saruman of Many Colors said many words. The point is that he feels the only one worthy to act. It also pains him that people outside his Circle are doing what he has not been able to do for decades - to build a Place. It is also very likely that he is supported behind the scenes by a Corporation that seeks a monopoly on such issues.
First, the word "save" has many meanings. I mean: saved from not being bought by us, the fans; saved for the Tolkien activity.
We have a unique opportunity to buy the house which is so known to the lovers of Tolkien's books. Maybe when we leave this opportunity the next one will be in a hundred years? This is why I want to save the house.
I have donated twice and I will add from my money even for the third time. Why? Because I promote the Tolkienist activity OUTSIDE the official Societies, because I would love to enter the house where "The Lord of the Rings" was written, because I am sure that new Tolkien organization in the UK will animate the other ogranizations, like The Tolkien Society (competition is usually a good thing), because finally we have a chance to have OUR PLACE FOR FANS in England. As an organizer of the Tolkien Travels to the UK, I also dream about spending a night in that house with my folk. And finally I have a chance to find a right place to give my Tolkien collection when I leave the circles of this world.
Tropienie "secretive Christians" pachnie tęsknotą za Act for the further preventing the Growth of Popery z 1698 r. Widmo Gordona krąży nad Europą...
OdpowiedzUsuńO tak - Tolkien wcale by się nie zdziwił, że dalej tropi się "secretive Christians"
UsuńMiejmy nadzieję, ze się uda!
OdpowiedzUsuńW tej chwili jest już pół miliona dolarów
UsuńYour final words are telling, of one who does not like questions being asked. Concerns about this project are not aimed at religion but at the motives of the project leaders. You facilitate it yourself when you say "But I am optimistic and I believe that we will buy this House, it will be saved before it comes to other non-Tolkienist hands" and then ask readers and fans to donate. You are asking them to donate to 'save' Tolkien's house from the 'non-Tolkienists' as if the house is in danger under the stewardship of private ownership. Well the house fell into private hands upon its creation and never needed a charity to protect it. After Tolkien it spent 70 years happily acting as a family home. Yet now at the say so of the project you support, it 'needs saving'. And this is the crux of the issue. The project and by association you are asking fans to donate money using what I will politely describe as 'stretching the truth', others will call it lies but the emotional hook remains the same. Making Tolkien fans think that they have to save a house that is already safe.
OdpowiedzUsuńI don't undestrand this kind of hostility towards people who finally have chance to buy Tolkien's house and to open it for fans searching for people like them.
UsuńThe Tolkien Society doesn't want to do it, the Tolkien family doesn't want to do it. We will do it.
Nothing I wrote is hostile. I will add that by their own admission they will not "open it for fans searching for people like them". Nothing of the sort so why are you pushing that angle?
UsuńI will ask some specific question as you support this project and with your own words feel this house needs "saving from the non Tolkienists". The project do not seem so far to think these concerns need addressing.
Why do you feel this house needs saving? What is it being saved from? What possible detrimental outcome could happen to this building if the project does not buy it? A Grade II listed building I might add.
Do you think it fair that fans are being told that the house 'needs saving' when the house DOES NOT need saving?
If you can't adequately answer the above then I question whether you understand what this project is about.
You state that "The Tolkien Society doesn't want to do it, the Tolkien family doesn't want to do it. We will do it." I would suggest that neither 'want' to do it because there is no need to do it.
Saruman of Many Colors said many words. The point is that he feels the only one worthy to act. It also pains him that people outside his Circle are doing what he has not been able to do for decades - to build a Place. It is also very likely that he is supported behind the scenes by a Corporation that seeks a monopoly on such issues.
UsuńWhy do I think this house needs saving?
UsuńFirst, the word "save" has many meanings. I mean: saved from not being bought by us, the fans; saved for the Tolkien activity.
We have a unique opportunity to buy the house which is so known to the lovers of Tolkien's books. Maybe when we leave this opportunity the next one will be in a hundred years? This is why I want to save the house.
I have donated twice and I will add from my money even for the third time. Why? Because I promote the Tolkienist activity OUTSIDE the official Societies, because I would love to enter the house where "The Lord of the Rings" was written, because I am sure that new Tolkien organization in the UK will animate the other ogranizations, like The Tolkien Society (competition is usually a good thing), because finally we have a chance to have OUR PLACE FOR FANS in England.
OdpowiedzUsuńAs an organizer of the Tolkien Travels to the UK, I also dream about spending a night in that house with my folk. And finally I have a chance to find a right place to give my Tolkien collection when I leave the circles of this world.