Anna Slack writing On Behalf of the Cambridge Tolkien Society sends this in: On Saturday 19th June, 2004, members of the Cambridge Tolkien Society will be performing a continuous 13-hour read-through of the BBC’s excellent radio adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, in Borders Cambridge, with the kind permission of Brian Sibley, Michael Bakewell, and the Tolkien Estate. [More]
Day: May 5, 2004
Anna Slack writing On Behalf of the Cambridge Tolkien Society sends this in: Just a quick email on behalf of the Events Committee of the Cambridge Tolkien Society (UK), to alert you to a project we’ll be running soon, for which we’d love to garner some support from fans worldwide, if that’s okay!
On Saturday 19th June, 2004, members of the Cambridge Tolkien Society will be performing a continuous 13-hour read-through of the BBC’s excellent radio adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, in Borders Cambridge, with the kind permission of Brian Sibley, Michael Bakewell, and the Tolkien Estate.
This is a charity event, and every penny that we raise will be going to the National Trust, to help in projects such as the Snowdonia and Coastline appeals. We’ll be joined on the day by Brian Sibley, and possibly Michael Bakewell!
We’ve just posted a website up with more information on it (www.holbytlas.net), and it would be great if you could put us up as an announcement on the news part of TOR.n.
Many thanks!
Anna Slack
Keeper of the Book of Westmarch
On Behalf of the Cambridge Tolkien Society
Take this report from SFcrowsnest.com with a 20 pound bag of salt: We’ve been tipped off that the legal and ownership issues which surround the Lord of the Rings have come under an intense round of negotiation as a significant unnamed party – said not to be Peter Jackson in this instance – work towards a new multi-million dollar per episode television series set in Tolkien’s Middle Earth. [More]
Take this report from SFcrowsnest.com with a 20 pound bag of salt: We’ve been tipped off that the legal and ownership issues which surround the Lord of the Rings have come under an intense round of negotiation as a significant unnamed party – said not to be Peter Jackson in this instance – work towards a new multi-million dollar per episode television series set in Tolkien’s Middle Earth. The working name of the project is TOME – Tales of Middle Earth – and the proposed timeline is the years following the events in The Hobbit, but prior to The Lord of the Rings trilogy. One of the main points that need resolution is whether Peter Jackson should get first dibs on a movie adaption of The Hobbit, or whether the TOME project should be allowed to develop the children’s book as a movie prior to the launch of any television series set in Middle Earth.
60!
Today is John Rhys-Davies’ birthday! John was born on May 5th, 1944 in Salisbury, England. That makes him 60 years old today! Congrats John!