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Subject: Re: Archives in fiction
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 13:21:05 +0000
From: jenny moran <[log in to unmask]>
FLAMING TORCH?! Sounds more like a TV historian than an archivist. And he needs
to do more outreach with socially excluded communities like Orcs.
Jenny Moran
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Taylor Martin wrote:
> In the credits to the first Lord of the Rings film "The Fellowship of the
> Ring", a character is identified as "Gondorian archivist" who presumably is
> the wizened little man armed with flaming torch who shows Gandalf where the
> scrolls are stored by which he identifies the Ring.
>
> A suitably effacing, none speaking role.
>
> I've done my credibility no good at all with that one.
>
> Martin Taylor
> City Archivist
> Hull City Archives
> 79 Lowgate
> Kingston-upon-Hull
> HU1 1HN
>
> Telephone: 01482 615110
> Fax: 01482 613051
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Meic Pierce Owen [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 29 November 2002 15:57
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Archives in fiction
>
>
> Hi,
>
> There were also of course the Jedi archives in Episode 2 of Star Wars...so
> what if they did manage to loose a planet from their records -probably
> poor document control starting with minimal appraisal procedures but that's
> another story and, hey, at least we made the movie!!
>
> Meic Pierce Owen
> Anne Thompson
> Meic Pierce Owen
> Archivist,
> Special Collections Dept,
> University of St Andrews Library,
> North Street,
> St Andrews
> Fife KY16 9TR
> Scotland/Alba-UK
>
> Tel: +44 (01)334 462339; fax 462282
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> Website: http://specialcollections.st-and.ac.uk/
>
>
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