tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post124527860927148760..comments2024-03-28T14:05:25.134-07:00Comments on Sacnoth's Scriptorium: The WobbitJohn D. Rateliffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-15755570219313969562020-03-11T08:46:23.163-07:002020-03-11T08:46:23.163-07:00Hi Mr. Rateliff. I just came across your review. T...Hi Mr. Rateliff. I just came across your review. Thank you for doing these! I'm not currently reading anything at the moment and I might pick this up. Just the fact the Incredible Hulk is an analog for Beorn has me intrigued. If there was a contemporary hero I would associate with Beorn it's definitely the Hulk. Thanks!HobbitFanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13648203851066045489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-76222159632997064822014-01-06T11:21:11.310-08:002014-01-06T11:21:11.310-08:00John-
I saw your name on Pieter Collier's we...John- <br /><br />I saw your name on Pieter Collier's website, and thought that you might be able to help me. I'm putting together a Tolkien Reading Day fundraiser (thewobbitaparody.com). I plan to raise money for a community group called Opportunity Knocks (opportunityknocksnow.org). They serves young people with developmental disablilities. I have an idea I'd like to discuss with you. I'm sorry to post this on your blog, but I had no other way to contact you. Please feel free to respond at thewobbitaparody@sbcglobal.net. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07033047213378163024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-6966134881641763112012-03-13T22:33:49.036-07:002012-03-13T22:33:49.036-07:00John-
Thanks for reading and reviewing my book, T...John-<br /><br />Thanks for reading and reviewing my book, The Wobbit A Parody. I glad that there were parts of it you found funny. <br /><br />I also appreciate that your review was as positive a review as I could ask for, given that you didn't actually enjoy the book. A lesser reviewer might have taken some cheap shots, but you took the high road: you quoted the lines you liked the best and let your readers decide from there. <br /><br />I'm glad you put me in the company of Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams, if only for an unsuccessful comparison. You could have lumped me together with D.R. Lyold. (I, too, own a copy of The Sillymarillion.)<br /><br />Thanks also for including a link to my book on Amazon. Kindle and Amazon have been very good to me. As a result of my Kindle promotions, I caught the attention of an editor from Piper Verlag, who will be publishing The Wobbit this November, in German. I'm hoping they can sell the English language rights soon. Until then, I will be the David Hasselhoff of parody writing.<br /><br />Both you and I are passionate about Tolkien's writing. My hope is that my love for The Hobbit is apparent in my parody of it. <br /><br />Thanks again for your review.<br /><br />-PaulPaul Ericksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12237966238684348671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-52909073850706553252012-03-10T14:38:52.678-08:002012-03-10T14:38:52.678-08:00Well, that's embarrassing. I hasten to add th...Well, that's embarrassing. I hasten to add that a few abbreviated words in a blog post are vastly less annoying than they would be in a full-length work of fiction.<br /><br />I looked at that sauronsblog that Robert mentioned, and it's quite amusing in small enough doses, but it does go on for quite a while, and far from done yet.David Bratmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08090662884600828582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-82626926904376217072012-03-09T10:58:20.444-08:002012-03-09T10:58:20.444-08:00Hi David.
"reparian" is entirely my m...Hi David.<br /> "reparian" is entirely my mistake, which I've now gone in and corrected.<br /> The abbreviations are also my own, as I shd have pointed out. Normally I'm more careful to keep my usage distinct from that of any source I quote, and I shd have done the same here.<br /> As for THE SODDIT and SELLAMILLION, I'd forgotten about those. I've never read either and they quickly drifted down to the box room, where they've stayed since shortly after arriving.<br /><br /> Glancing at them now, I find that I don't own Roberts' SELLAMILLION after all but THE SILLYMARILLION by D. R. Lyold, a book I find literally unreadable. Given the choice between SILLYMARILLION and FINNEGANS WAKE on a desert island, I'd . . . well, I'd be v. unhappy. It's that bad.<br /> THE SODDIT, on the other hand, I might actually read someday, if I run out of better books.<br /><br />Hi Robert: I'll check out Sauronsblog.com sometime.<br /><br />--JDRJohn D. Rateliffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-49639205885637663202012-03-08T06:38:52.938-08:002012-03-08T06:38:52.938-08:00There's also Sauronsblog.com, written by someo...There's also Sauronsblog.com, written by someone familiar with more than the movies, among the online satires.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10036938647225089968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-52331002511972436892012-03-08T06:25:28.209-08:002012-03-08T06:25:28.209-08:00Bringing up the length of parodies raises the ques...Bringing up the length of parodies raises the question of whether you've read the "A.R.R.R. Roberts" <i>The Soddit</i> and <i>The Sellamillion</i>. They're quite long, and to a large extent are really not parodies at all, but spinoffs more like Pat Murphy's <i>There and Back Again</i>.<br /><br />In discussing the characteristics of <i>The Wobbit</i>, you don't specify the - if your transcriptions are literal - incredibly annoying practice of liberally abbreviating words. Also, "a sort of reparian service drive" would be funnier if he could spell riparian.David Bratmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08090662884600828582noreply@blogger.com