Tag Archives: LOTR

Panning Pan

Posted on September 17, 2021 by Tonette Joyce

“If you were asked to rewrite/modernize a classic novel, which one would you want to adapt?” There’s a very good question. I have tried hard to read or listen to classics. I read a great deal all of my life … Continue reading →

Posted in audiobooks, authors, Books, characters, childhood, Children's books, classics, Clean Writing, decisions, editing, Family, fantasy, Friendship, imagination, inspiration, memories, movies, novels, plots, reading, subplots, Tonette Joyce, villains, writers | Tagged C S Lewis, Disney, Harry Potter J K Rowling, J M Barrie, J R R Tolkien, Jerome K Jerome, LOTR, Mary Poppins, Narnia, Peter Pan, rewriting classics, The Hobbit, Updating classics | 8 Comments

Cinema Magic, Book Enchantment

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Tonette Joyce

This week we are talking about books that we have read after seeing a movie on which they were based . I was surprised to realize I had done this quite a bit. Last week I brought up a sort … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous | Tagged "Rebecca", A Christmas Memory, Agatha Christie, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Daphne du Maurier, Forrest Gump, Gladys Aylward, Harry Potter, In Cold Blood, Ingrid Bergman, James Hilton, Lilies of the Field, LOTR, Maria Von Trapp, Paul Scott, Roert Ben Garant, Ronald Coleman, Shangri-La, Sydney Poitier, The Bible, The Birds, The Good Book, The Greatest Christmas Pageant Ever, The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, The Jewel in the Crown, The Lost Horizon, The Raj Quartet, The Scapegoat, The Small Woman, The Sound of Music, The Thanksgiving Visitor, The Time Traveler's Wife, Thomas Lennon, Truman Capote, Witness For the Procecution, Writing Movies for Fun and Profit | 6 Comments

The Egg and I

Posted on January 23, 2015 by Tonette Joyce

This week we are talking about movies we have seen because we read the books on which they were based, Next time, we’ll discuss reading books after having seen its movie. I am not only an avid reader, I love … Continue reading →

Posted in authors, Books, Family, Life, Random thoughts, Tonette Joyce, writing | Tagged Agatha Christie mysteries, Alec Guinness, Centennial, Deliver Us From Evil, Harry Potter, Heaven is For Real, Jane Austen novels, Janet Evanovich, Katherine Heigl, LOTR, Obi-Wan Kenobi, One For the Money, Peter Jackson, Shakespeare in the Park, Star Wars, Stephanie Plum, The Grinch, The Hobbit, Top Secret Twenty-One | 4 Comments

“A Confession of Character” [R.W. Emerson]

Posted on August 2, 2013 by Tonette Joyce

This week we are talking about what character in a famous novel we’d like to be, (temporarily). Toughy! Although I might daydream about places or characters from stories, I never put myself in one as a character. I might want to … Continue reading →