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Weirdhouse Cinema: The Keepers (Russian Lord of the Rings)

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Tolken Through Slavanic Eyes

Tolken through russian eyes. The work itself, of course, has an appeal that defies borders and nationalities. Based in the mythologies and literatures that tolken himself was most familiar with. These these include mostly non russian and slavic influences. Tolken had tried to learn russian at one point, and it didn't take here's what he had to say in one of his letters. Love music, but have no aptitude for it. Slavanic languages are, for me, almost in the same category. I am, in no ordinary sense, a linguist. And the time i once spent on trying to learn serbian and r

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