Speaker 2
Yeah, I think there's a lot there. Like I like us, I think I emailed you that, you know, you, Casey and I, we're all going to be at the Colson conference here in a couple of weeks, two, three weeks, right? And I'm sure that one of these evenings we will probably sit down with beverage and nerd out on this or Dune or something like that. There is just so much there. One of the books of the Hobbit that I have is, it's a large one. It's the annotated version of the Hobbit. And not only does it have all the cool notes and stuff like that to kind of explain, but it has the illustrations from all the different versions. Oh, nice. Yeah, it's really kind of cool because it'll have the Slovak version. It'll have the Russian version of going back to the 50s and well, I guess the 60s and what not, and you can see the different how each culture brings its own little spin on what each of them look like. Like the Japanese one, you can look at that. If you've seen anime, you can see that there's a beauty in that. My favorite story about the Tolkien's reaction to popular representation is that apparently the Beatles wanted to do his do the movie and they were going to be the fellowship. Oh, no. And he, yeah, they were going to be, you know, Frodo and whatnot. The Tolkien apparently had lived down the street from them. This is the story I've heard. I mean, I've seen it a couple of times who'd lived down the street from them and despised them. And so refused to allow them to do it. And I just
Speaker 1
love that. It's just amusing. Oh, man. Can you can you just imagine it? It comes in pint. I'm getting one. Oh, my God. It
Speaker 2
would be the enemy. The ex needs the Hobbit.
Speaker 1
Yeah. Wow. Thank God that didn't happen. There were some, there were some weird things. There was this radio adaptation that is kind of a semi dramatization reading. They abridged it a little bit. I don't even remember who did that, but I was given that in this like wood, this kind of stylized wood case with a bunch of CDs and it was the whole Lord of the Rings on audio CDs. And so they added music and sound effects and stuff, but it was very, I guess it was 60s or 70s. It sounded like it. It really sounded like it. I mean, when Gandalf would cast a spell, it was like this laser noise you'd hear in Star Trek or something. It was that was back when sci fi fantasy kind of blended in many people's minds.