The set near Closeburn that we pictured in ‘The Search for Middle-earth’ has drawn a number of guesses. Several people have said ‘The hill of Seeing.’ Here is what Joe Piela had to say:
“My first guess would be Cirith Ungol: when I first saw the statues they reminded me of the two watchers (though their location up high rules against it), and that sword you noted looks like an orc scimitar. So I would guess the stuntmen would be Shagrat and Gorbag’s orcs fighting amongst themselves. My second guess would be that they are REALLY spice up the “Hill of Seeing” scene (after all you noted that the thing on the raised platform looked like a seat or throne), with the Orcs first attacking Boromir up on the hilltop right after the confrontation with Frodo. That way they can start the carnage early and have Boromir leave a trail of bodies down the hill”
Now I LIKE that! I’m convinced!
Month: January 2000
Well they’re back! It is with great pleasure I announce our next Live Net Event! Writer and Hugo Award Winner Kim Stanley Robinson!
Mr. Robinson’s work on the ‘Mars Trilogy’ is some of my favorite fiction. His attention to detail and character development is superb. So come on by Barliman’s on Wednesday, January 19th at 9:30 PM EST to chat about writing, how Tolkien’s work inspired him, and the creative form in general! See you there! [More on KSR]
Ethan Hawke’s film ‘Snow Falling on Cedars’ opens today in the USA, if you see it and want to review it drop me a line!
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Tehanu as submitted her latest installment of “The Search for Middle-earth.” Check out the amazing photography as she encounters “Glaciers and Snow.” [ more ]
I had no idea this was such a popular pastime. Several Ringers have written to tell us more about where you can learn about Tolkien’s languages. You can read what they’ve said in Spy Reports
I had no idea this was such a popular pastime. Several fans have written in to give us more information about how to learn Elvish. According to Steuard Jensen “…the help files that come with Dan Smith’s Middle-earth fonts are excellent references in their own right…” He goes on to recommend the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship, “…an international organisation devoted to a scholarly study of the invented languages of Tolkien.” They have a journal and sometimes Christopher Tolkien has submitted essays to them. Their website is here and contains a list of resources for Tolkien linguists.
Helge Fauskanger also wrote to say that “An Introduction to Elvish” is outdated: “More than 80% of what we know about Tolkien’s languages today was unknown when “An Introduction to To Elvish” appeared.
Helge has a website, the Ardalambion, “with more recent studies that take into account the wealth of new information,” which has come from Chris Tolkien among others.