Tolkien Lecture in Brazil
– Mongvar
Brazil, Sao Paulo city, last month. At 6:30 started at Martins Fontes bookshop the biggest Tolkien event of the last year in Brazil. The
Silmarillion was finally translated and released in the country, and the publisher Martins Fontes decided to make a kind of release party. The place was used at first for all brazilian Tolkien fans meet each other, and it ended in a great convention, with people making many friendships. And at last, but not least, we had the presence of Ronald Eduard Kyrmse.
Ronald is one of the most important Tolkien experts in Brazil. A member of Tolkien Society and it’s linguistic group Quendili, Ronald has read almost all released Tolkien books, and just finished reading the History of Middle-Earth Series. He did a very excellent lecture, where he told us about Tolkien’s life, and how it influenced his works, and also told how
Tolkien spent his whole life writing The Silmarillion; at the same time he knew he wouldn’t never finish the books.
After a long and very nice lecture, Ronald answered the questions from the Tolkiens fans there, a kind of a Q&A, where he proved he was really a Tolkien expert, signing in elvish the books of people who asked him.
A great night for brazilian Tolkien fans, and those who missed it, missed a lot!
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You can catch Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) in ‘A Perfect Murder’ on Cinemax in the States[More]
You can see Elijah Wood (Frodo) in ‘The Faculty’ on TMN in Canada [More]
You can see Sean Astin (Sam) in the 80’s kid flick I grew up with ‘The Goonies’ on UK Channel 5 at 5 PM
Thanks to Gavin for that UK tip!
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Ringer Amargasaur just chimed in:
“The map the top of the official site allows you to zoom in and out on it by right clicking and selecting zoom.” (On macs hold down the ‘control’ key)
Just a neat bit of info. Check it out. [ official site ]
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From now on, each day we will be posting a trivia question or quote. The first person to email me with the correct response will be posted on this page the following day.
“What was Galadriel’s name in Quenya?”
email Gamgee@theonering.net with your answers!
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Greetings visitors!
Gandalf wanted to drop you a line to tell you a bit about the internet’s best Tolkien chat! From the desktop of the Wizard himself:
“Hullo fellow Ringers!
Do you have any Tolkien topics or ideas that you just can’t seem to figure out? Ever wonder why Cirdan is the only elf mentioned with a beard? Or what happened to the rings of the Nazgul? Then come on in to Barliman’s chatroom! If trivia is your thing, and you think you can stump the Barliman regulars, then come on in and try! Whatever is on your mind, you are welcome to Barliman’s.”
— Gandalf
We talk about the movies being filmed in New Zealand all the time, too. Curious about the latest Spy Reports or news items? Perhaps you’ve found out something yourself you’d like to pass along to the higher ups…. Interested in meeting site founders Xoanon, Tehanu, Calisuri or Corvar? They frequent the chat regularly, as well as a host of Tolkien enthusiasts from around the world.
We hope to see you soon! If you have trouble connecting please email me and we’ll take care of you.
*Tookish raises his mug of 1420 and says, “Cheers!”
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Super Spy Aiglos found this bit of news!! We now know that there are two other real audio files.
The first is basically the same as the “live from the set” on the site now.
However, the third is VERY interesting indeed! It is a report from the interior filming at Bag End. Here is an excerpt:
“One that is really tiny, so that when actor Ian McKellen, who plays Gandalf walks inside, he appears to be the height of 8 feet tall, that Gandalf is in the story…“
“Then we have a full scale sized Bag End where the hobbits..(Naming cast)..when they walk in, it appears to be a normal environment.“
“Eventually these two images will be merged so that you won’t be able to tell that Gandalf and the hobbits where in different environments.“
Wow! Check it out here: [ listen ]
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