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and laugh, and laugh...
A link for the truly curious is below, but here is the relevant text. The auction is for a 1968 Skiatook, Oklahoma (USA) phone book. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien spent a majority of his time in Skiatook writing his second draft of The Lord Of The Rings, a fact paid tribute to by Skiatook's inclusion in the feature film The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King as portraying the city of Minas Tirith. Strangely, all footage shot on location was used only in the film's theatrical trailer, and never saw light in the final cut of the film, an Ontario-based city instead appearing. The original footage- with commentary by Tolkien- is available on the upcoming "One Ring Edition" of the DVD. Can't wait to hear that commentary... eBay auction page
Posted on: 2007/8/16 14:35
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riiiight... the mental image of JRRT typing away in the 1040's in Skiatook, Oklahoma(!) is incongruous to unfathomable depths, and therefore hilarious - and though I appreciate the humor, I don't think I can laugh until I've finished passing the brainstone. THE @#$&%....?!?
Posted on: 2007/8/16 21:30
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I looked at this and thought that this must have come from somewhere else on the Internet, looked like it had been cut and pasted, and a quick search on google shows the real culprit.
Search.com web page, Skiatook I am struggling to see who to contact to get the Tolkien reference removed. Does anyone have any ideas?
Posted on: 2007/8/24 0:30
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Good catch Trotter.
The Search.com page is just a mirror (out of date) of the Wikipedia page (which is allowed under the wiki terms of use). I submitted a request to fix to search.com, we'll see if they do anything about it. It seems (looking at the edit history for the wikipedia page) that Skiatook is a common vandal page - lots of edits that get undone pretty quickly, seems like Search.com happened to grab their copy before one particular instance of vandalism was fixed. Ah, the power of wikipedia. The truth is what we make of it...
Posted on: 2007/8/24 1:03
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I live about 2 hours from Skiatook, Oklahoma and have been through that town.
I am trying to picture Tolkien there, but it is just not working!
Posted on: 2007/8/24 16:38
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