More information on the PJ in Poland story we posted earlier. The answer from PJ’s camp is exactly what we thought it would be, no. Peter was never in Poland in a helicopter and he was most certainly never scouting locations for a Hobbit movie that he will most certainly not make after ROTK. We are certain…
Day: February 27, 2003
We shouldn’t talk about our TORN book without mentioning the cover art by TORN community member Saulone. We met him in real life at DragonCon last year, he stunned us with his talent, and we immediately put him in touch with our publisher. Visit Saulone’s site to see why we’re so excited to have him involved in our book. [More] Saulone’s also providing line drawings for the chapter headings.
Thanks to the thousands of you who are interested in ‘The People’s Guide to J.R.R. Tolkien”, written by Tehanu, Anwyn, Quickbeam, Turgon and Ostadan, we’ve rocketed up Amazon’s Bestseller list. We’ve jumped an astonishing 4200 positions in 1/2 a day! [More]
UPDATE: The People’s Guide is now sitting in Amazon’s Top 40. *Thunk!* -Tehanu
Peter Jackson’s long odyssey is almost over. Taking a break from the editing of “The Return of the King,” the third and final installment of “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, Jackson is slated to be in town Saturday for the 55th annual Directors Guild Awards, where he is one of five nominees for the directorial achievement in feature film award for his work on “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.” Jackson recently spoke to Todd Longwell for The Hollywood Reporter by phone from his base of operations in Wellington, New Zealand. [More]
VATICAN, Feb 26, 03 (CWNews.com) — In a highly favorable review of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, the official Vatican newspaper has said that the work carries “echoes of the Gospel.” [More]
VATICAN, Feb 26, 03 (CWNews.com) — In a highly favorable review of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, the official Vatican newspaper has said that the work carries “echoes of the Gospel.”
L’Osservatore Romano remarked that Tolkien’s creative work– now being made available on film– has an “enchantment with which is seduces us, and helps to highlight a significance deeper than what is immediately apparent.” The fantasy world of Tolkien’s work is “like a projection of the real world, where men are agitated by passions, driven by sentiments, slaves to egoism, but open to values of friendship, loyalty, generosity, love– stronger than the will to power that devastates mankind.”
The anonymous article in L’Osservatore Romano said that Tolkien’s work shows “a sort of theology.” The Lord of the Rings speaks through images and signs, the reviewer observes, but the author concludes: “When faith inspires one’s thought and one’s life, there is not need to call attention to it; it shines through everything.”