Another report on the Chalk Farm Gallery’s exhibition of Ted Nasmith’s Tolkien art. [More]
Day: September 27, 2001
“I recently attended the opening of the Ted Nasimith exhibition in Camden, London, and I think there was not a soul there not totally blown away by Ted’s art or just how nice and approachable he was. Now, my first and greatest reason was to see the art and meet the man behind the brush, but being a musician I was interested to see what the promised musical interlude would be like. I was enchanted! Casper Reiff is an excellent guitarist with great skill and heart. And as previously reported Ted’s voice was wonderful, a soft and gentle tone that did wonders for the song.
Having the chance to do so I chatted briefly with Casper and regretted I had no money on me to buy his CD at the time. Happily he advised me that it is available through Tolkienensemble the official site of the ensemble themselves. I urge everyone at TORN to check it out and consider buying the CD, if Casper’s performence is anything to go by it is well worth it.”
Thanks to Paul for that!
The Right-wing Alleanza Nazionale are using an image from FOTR as part of their latest political manifesto. That should be of interest to the people at New Line who deal with copyright issues. Not to mention the weirdness of linking an ex-fascist party with Tolkien imagery. [More]
This came in from Robert at Italian website Caltanet
“Alleanza Nazionale -the most important right-oriented Italian political party, heir of the ancient fascist party – has taken a picture from Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings to promote a speech by his leader, Gianfranco Fini, the vice-president of the Berlusconi’s new government, to the youngest audience of the party. You can see the pic here
This is very important because in Italy, since the date (‘70s) of the first publication of LOTR, Tolkien’s book is considered fascist or nazist or “naziskin”, as the famous journalist Natalia Aspesi called it this May reporting the Lord of the Ring’s day from the Cannes Film Festival. We are the only Italian journalists who denounced these stupid prejudices in the hope of start also in Italy a real cultural debate about Tolkien and his books. Hopefully before the Italian release of Fellowship of the Ring, on 18 January 2002.
If you and your readers want to join our protest, please send us an e-mail with your thoughts to: tolkien@caltanet.it
Golem.de, the German Internet Technology website has posted an article on the partnership between mobile company Riot-E and New Line Cinema, which will bring the Lord of the Rings to mobile phones around the world. [German] [English]
From Old Toby:
“I apologize if this is old news to you, but today when I received my Burger King lunch, the paper bag had a LOTR reference at the bottom! In fancy script it read ‘Frodo Lives’, and under that was typed: www.lotr.bk.com. The rest of the bag just has normal Burger King logos, nothing special. I’ve been trying to go to that site, but can’t connect (I don’t think it exists yet). Sorry, but I didn’t feel like dredging the bag out of the garbage and scanning it for you!”
Toby’s right…the address doesn’t work yet. Any Ringers out there wanna bring their bag home from Lunch, scan the images, and send them in?