Kate writes: Barnes and Noble University is having an online Tolkien course: This course provides an overview of The Hobbit and LOTR by JRR Tolkien. We’ll look first at Tolkien’s biography, his writing life, the origins of the stories, and their publication history. We’ll continue with lessons on each book, concentrating on Tolkien’s construction of a mythological world and its peoples and languages, his characters and their development, and his thematic concerns. Finally, we’ll look at Tolkien’s lasting influence on 20th-century fantasy literature, as well as on cultural movements such as neo-paganism and environmentalism. [More]
Month: August 2004
Fay Wray 1907 – 2004
David writes: I thought that you might like to know that there are still tickets available for the Howard Shore LOTR Symphony at the Royal Albert Hall in London on the 23rd September 2004. The performance on the previous evening of the 22nd was sold out immediately, and the second date was then offered and put on sale from the 3rd August. The Royal Albert Hall management tell me that they are concerned that the hundreds who were turned away from the first performance may not be aware that the second is being run the following evening and/or booking now. We want a full house! Can you publicise this? Howard Shore has kindly agreed to this second date, and we don’t want to let him down! [More]
Bruce Hopkins [Gamling] will be speaking briefly for the American Cinemathque prior to the showing of two of Peter’s early films, “Bad Taste” and “Meet The Feebles.” It’s at the Egyptian Theatre on 6712 Hollywood Blvd, on 9.45pm on Friday 20th.
Now playing at the Museum of Science: a reliquary for our modern age. `The Lord of the Rings’ Motion Picture Trilogy — The Exhibition” is, on the brutal face of it, little more than a collection of pretty costumes, drawings, plastic models, and cast-off prosthetics lined up for display. The ambience, however, is hushed, the lighting low, the speakers emitting distant sounds of battle. You would think you were making a pilgrimage to the toe bone of a saint. Many people in the hall think they are. [More]
Ian Brodie and Mike