Gryster sent in a perceptive and detailed report about the opening of Viggo’s photography exhibition in Odense, “Ephemeris.” Apparently this link has been doing odd things, but it seems to be fine now. [More] House of Telcontar also has news and reports on his recent appearances in Denmark.
Month: July 2003
Red Carpet Tours still has seats available on the ‘Rohan’ tour which leaves Auckland on November 27 to take fans to LOTR film locations all over New Zealand and the celebrations in Wellington for the premiere of The Return of the King on December 1. The tour will link up with the TORN/Red Carpet party planned for November 30th. More details to follow.
August 2, 3: Summermoot is an opportunity for TS members (& others) to join together and visit an area: whether for walking or browsing bookshops, in the Speyside region of Scotland, close to Inverness and Elgin. [More]
ActionFigure.com has reviewed a new batch of LoTR figurines from Play Along – Armies of Middle-earth – Dark Rider and Armies of Middle-earth – Attack at Weathertop. And, according to the reviewer, they compare pretty favourably with Games Workshop miniatures.
[Rider] [Weathertop]
Ringer spy João finds some parallels between the Tolkien’s account of the beginning of the Universe in The Silmarillion, and some recent theories in physics. [More]
João writes, “I started reading “The elegant Universe” by Brian R. Green and reached the part where the author starts talking about the super-strings theory. Basically, what the theory says is that the universe is composed of strings, (like in a violin) and that all particles emerge because thoose strings vibrate. Like the notes emerging when a string of a violin vibrates. The author even talks about a “cosmic symphony” and “all is music”.
Being a Tolkien fan I imediatly noticed the incredible resemblence. Tolkien wrote that Iluvatar made everything out of music. This theory being correct (everything leads to that), Tolkien couldn’t be more right… The building blocks that God (or Iluvatar) used, is indeed, music…”
If you don’t have a copy of the Silmarillion handy, here is the opening of its creation myth, the Ainulindalë:
“There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made. And he spoke to them, propounding to them themes of music; and they sang before him, and he was glad.”
And it is from that music that the world is created, according to Tolkien!