Lots of people often write us about visiting Ocean City’s famous “Hobbit Restaurant,” so we thought this story about a proposed redevelopment of the area might be of interest to US East Coast Ringers. [More]
Month: May 2004
The Chicago Sun-Times interviews LOTR Visual Effects Supervisor Jim Rygiel about the ROTK DVD and a very valuable gift that recently arrived in the mail. [More]
From the Arizona Republic: Because my mom and I really love the Lord of the Rings books and movies when the chance came to go on a two-week LOTR movie-site tour put on by Red Carpet Tours, we took it, and before we knew it, we were on a bus with 48 Tolkien fans from nine countries and a variety of U.S. states. [More]
The Chronicle for Higher Education examines the growing field of Tolkien scholarship. “Literary scholars have been analyzing [Tolkien’s] cosmos since the mid-1960s. But there is a difference between success with the motion-picture academy and legitimacy in academe, as those working in the field of Tolkien studies are only too well aware” [More]
An online discussion with Michael D.C. Drout, an associate professor of English at Wheaton College, in Massachusetts, will take place on June 3rd. [More]
TORn’s good friend Irascian has posted a transcript and photographs from Howard Shore’s Q&A session at the Royal College of Music in London. “He talked about the new 50 minute documentary on his symphony that will be on the ROTK Extended DVD, the hoped-for boxed set containing 8-CDs of all the LOTR extended edition music as well as a DVD of new documentary footage, and about how he was filmed in the shower!” Thanks Ian! [More]
Ringer Spy Inecunian writes: The Australian ABC Radio National programme, The Ark, broadcast a documentary about Tolkien and Roman Catholicism on 23, May and provided a transcript. The ABC is the public broadcaster for Australia and its programme transcripts are available to all. [Read transcript] or [Listen]