Peter Jackson will take time out from filming King Kong and suing Hollywood studio New Line Cinema to speak about his Lord of the Rings movies in Sydney next week. Jackson will speak for two hours at the Powerhouse Museum in the Australian city on March 12. The Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy – The Exhibition, developed with Te Papa, has been on show there for several months, attracting 128,000 visitors. Tickets for An Evening with Peter Jackson are $A65 ($NZ70). [More]
Month: March 2005
Turgon writes: The schedule for the Oxford Literary Festival, which runs from Sunday April 10th through Sunday April 17th in Oxford, has been posted on their website. Tolkien fans might be interested in a few events, one by Green Books contributor Olog-Hai (Henry Gee), another on Tolkien’s biographer, Humphrey Carpenter, who passed away earlier this year. [More]
Turgon writes: The schedule for the Oxford Literary Festival, which runs from Sunday April 10th through Sunday April 17th in Oxford, has been posted on their website: sundaytimes-oxfordliteraryfestival.co.uk. Tolkien fans might be interested in a few events, one by Green Books contributor Olog-Hai (Henry Gee), another on Tolkien’s biographer, Humphrey Carpenter, who passed away earlier this year.
Tuesday 12 April 2.30 pm Oxford Union (5.50 GBP)
Henry Gee – The Science of Middle-earth
Henry Gee ingeniously reveals how contemporary science can explain some of the wonders of Middle Earth, where Tolkien’s marvellous fantasy creates a world with an insistent sense of reality. In The Science of Middle Earth, he delights in explaining such scientific conundrums as how Frodo’s coat of mithril armour can deflect deadly blows and how Legolas can count the Riders of Rohan across five leagues. Just because The Lord of the Rings is fantasy, he argues, this doesn’t prevent scientific explanations for its wonders. Henry Gee is one of the editors of Nature.
Sunday 17 April 8 – 9.30 pm Oxford Union (10.00 GBP)
Remembering Humphrey
An evening recalling the many sides of the multi-talented, multi-faceted Humphrey Carpenter. Presented by Libby Purves and including contributions from people who worked with him in radio and books, as well as a taste of the one-man musical on which he was working at the time of his death: Shake It All About. More details on this event will be posted on the Festival website as they become available. All profits from this event will go to a charity in Humphrey’s name: see website for further information.
Celticwench sends along this link to archive video of the Richard Taylor and Tania Rodger lecture at the Powerhouse Museum in Australia. [More]
Blackbird writes: Please pass along some info about Unsung Heroes of The Lord of the Rings: From the Page to the Screen, by Lynnette R. Porter. It’ll be published in late March by Greenwoord Press/Praeger. This is the book for anyone who’s a fan of Merry, Pippin, Eowyn, Galadriel, Arwen, Legolas, or Gimli. They’re the “unsung heroes” discussed in great detail, in both Tolkien’s work and Peter Jackson’s adaptation. The book also describes fandom’s role in LotR’s continuing popularity, as well as the need for Tolkien’s heroic characters in a modern world. The book presents an in-depth look at some of our favorite characters who often are not featured in other critical works. [More]
From the Sunday Star Times: Film Director Peter Jackson wants a jury to decide whether The Lord of the Rings distributor New Line Cinema “wilfully, wantonly and maliciously” cheated him out of profits. Jackson’s production company, Wingnut Films, is suing New Line and its subsidiary Katja Motion Pictures, for allegedly failing to account for profits from the first film in the trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. A film industry expert believes the claim could run to tens of millions of dollars, with any outcome being used to settle claims for the two other Rings movies. [More]