Press Tour: King Lear is semi-nude and Gandalf may be gay
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The students will be able to explore Tolkien’s Middle-earth from their home, in their own time. They will examine the vast mythology behind The Lord of the Rings and gain a thorough knowledge of Tolkien’s fiction and its creation by focusing on The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion and The Children of Húrin.
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More about Events, Film Screenings, LotR: Movies, Movie: Fellowship of the Ring, Movie: Return of the King, Movie: The Two Towers A Look at ‘Born of Hope’ Composer Arjan KielRead the rest of this entry » More about Fans New Tolkien for HarperCollinsFrom thebookseller.com: HarperCollins is to publish a new book by the late Lord of the Rings author J R R Tolkien. The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún, edited and introduced by Tolkien’s son Christopher, will be published in hardback in May 2009. The previously unpublished work was written while Tolkien was professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University during the 1920s and ’30s, before he wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The publication will make available for the first time Tolkien’s extensive retelling in English narrative verse of the epic Norse tales of Sigurd the Völsung and the Fall of the Niflungs. Christopher Tolkien edited Tolkien’s most recent title The Children of Húrin in 2007. Further details about the contents of the book will be revealed closer to publication. More about Books & Publications, Christopher Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien, Other Tolkien books, Tolkien Howard Shore Launches Olympic Campaign
More about Events, Howard Shore Happy Birthday J.R.R. Tolkien
If you’d like to join in the worldwide toast, The Tolkien Society has its annual event organized where fans can sign up to toast by hoisting the liquid beverage of your choice to “The Professor”. More about Events, Fans, J.R.R. Tolkien, Tolkien Tolkien Toast Tonight in LAJust a reminder note. Los Angeles area Tolkien fans will be gathering at the Cat & Fiddle pub on Sunset starting at 6pm for dinner and the traditional 9pm Toast to the Professor. You can find the Cat & Fiddle at 6530 Sunset Blvd., LA, CA 90028. More about Events, Fans, J.R.R. Tolkien, Meet Ups, Tolkien Lord of the Rings: Conquest Demo on Xbox LIVE
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Welcome to the Celebrity Millennium, our home during the Cruise to Middle-earth as it sailed from Auckland, New Zealand to Sydney, Australia.
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Daniel Fienberg sends this along: What better way to kick off this January’s Television Critics Association press tour than with Sir Ian McKellen discussing his upcoming Great Performances version of “King Lear,” which he acknowledges is generally a career-capping role for most Shakespearean actors. “If, like me, you’ve worked your way through Shakespeare as an actor, waiting up there is King Lear and beyond him a shadowy Prospero maybe or a Falstaff,” says McKellen, who admits to being terrified of Falstaff. McKellen adds, “It’s the challenge. It’s the expectation that it will complete your journey through Shakespeare.” Of course, no matter how much acclaim McKellen gets for his stage work, he knows that he’ll always be recognized in the street for something different. 
Cardiff University is offering an on-line course on Tolkien taught in 10 weekly units by Dr Dimitra Fimi. The course has already run once this academic year and will run two more times in the Spring and Summer semesters 2009, starting on 19 January 2009 and 27 April 2009 respectively.
Dutch composer Arjan Kiel (keyboardplayer for Sister Sledge(?!)) sent us along some of his Tolkien themed work he created for fun. Kiel is working with Toby and Cody McClure & Peter Bateman on ‘Born of Hope’, the fan film that tells the story of Aragorn’s search for Gollum. Take a look at the YouTube videos and Arjan’s official site (
Canada’s Olympic broadcasters unveiled the first stage in a six-phase advertising series today, promising the largest Olympic campaign ever fielded by a media company. Dubbed BELIEVE, the campaign features heavyweight talent including actor Donald Sutherland and composer Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Silence of the Lambs). Slated as a rallying cry to Canadians ahead of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, it’s designed to make household names of Canada’s elite competitive athletes. The most ambitious aspect of the first phase, which officially launches today, is a pair of 60-second commercials. 
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