“Lilcritter writes: LOTR will apparently be featured in the Monty comic strip for the next few days. Monty is the ultimate nerd, so it only follows that his friends are geeks! [More]
Month: March 2004
Mike writes: The University of Vermont is showing the trilogy spanned over three nights starting this Thursday, April 1 with FOTR, TTT on Friday, and ROTK on Saturday. Thought if anyone in the area was interested, they might like to know. [uvm.edu
PirateTwin writes: Sean Astin will receive the Creative Coalition’s Spotlight Award for arts policy advocacy tonight (March 30th) at a benefit event in Washington, DC. The event will be B&B Italia in Georgetown at 6:30 p.m., for anyone who wants to hover around the edges (or buy a ticket ranging in price from $500 to $10,000…). [More]
TORn Staffer Anwyn writes:
Happy Easter from Green Books!
For those three or so people still waiting with bated breath for Anwyn’s review of Return of the King, it is finally here! [More]
Quickbeam gives us a scathing rundown on the evils of “reality” TV and the refreshing contrast provided by our favorite book! [More]
Turgon has a new book forthcoming from Cold Spring Press, the same fine people who brought you The People’s Guide to J.R.R. Tolkien. Here Turgon gives us a sneak peek of The Tolkien Fan’s Medieval Reader. [More]
Thirteen new Q&A await our curious readers [Here], as well as a selection of some terrific fan poetry and creative writing in Moon Letters. [More]
Enjoy!
I just wanted to let you know that there is an auction on Ebay for Andy’s book (Gollum – How We Made Movie Magic) autographed by some of the cast and crew. All proceeds goto the charity set up by Billy’s Loons. [More] Thanks to Lindsay for the heads up! Three more days to bid!
John writes: I thought the TORn-heads in and around the Chicago area might enjoy this. LECTURE: “Adapting Middle-Earth: Tolkien, the Books, and the Movies” by Thomas Shippey (St. Louis University), Saturday, April 3, 2004, 8:00 p.m., Gable Hall, Cavan Auditorium. Thomas Shippey is giving the lecture/ QA session on the campus of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb Illinois (about 50 or so miles west of Chicago).