Ostadan writes: Los Angeles’s noncommercial classical radio station KUSC ran an ad this morning for this coming Sunday’s “Record Shelf” program, to feature an interview with Howard Shore. Svejda’s program can be heard on KUSC in Los Angeles, streamed from their Web site, and also can be heard in syndication. [KUSC.org]
Day: January 5, 2005
A Birmingham nature reserve that provided JRR Tolkien with much of the inspiration for his classic fantasy novels is to be renamed in his honour. The city’s Millstream Project will now be called The Shire Country Park. The park links a four-mile, wooded walk along the River Cole and the Chinn Brook. It includes Moseley Bog, one of Tolkien’s favourite childhood haunts. [More]
This sad news about Humphrey Carpenter was submitted by Ringer Thranduil Elvenking. From Telegraph.co.uk: “Humphrey Carpenter, who died yesterday in Oxford aged 58, was an accomplished and often controversial biographer…” [More]
From The Scotsman: “Children’s author and broadcaster Humphrey Carpenter has died after suffering heart failure, it emerged today. Mr Carpenter, 58, wrote the successful Mr Majeika series of books as well as biographies of JRR Tolkien and Benjamin Britten.” [More]
From BBC News: “The writer and broadcaster Humphrey Carpenter has died aged 58. Carpenter created the Mr Majeika children’s books, turned into a TV series starring Stanley Baxter.” [More]
Anon writes: “Just got my preliminary Nebula ballot notice. ROTK will be one of the three finalists for a script nebula. I imagine it will make for a LOTR clean sweep with three nebulas for three movies in three successive years. Of course, the nomination won’t be officially announced for some time yet … this year I got in early enough that my name is down as one of the nominators, so I get a little reflected glory for doing something I heartily elieve to be a good idea.”