Lady Tinania writes: After months of speculation, aaaevents have notified fans that there will be no Fellowship Festival in 2006, disappointing fans here in the UK. In a letter on their website, aaaevents confirmed that, despite being backed by New Line, there would be no Festival this year, but thanked their supporters and the cast and crew . This puts an end to months of speculation and hearsay about the future of the event, which has brought many Lord of the Rings and Tolkien fans to London in the past two years. It is hoped that this will not be the last Lord of the Rings con in the UK. Visit www.aaaevents.co.uk for the full story.
Month: February 2006
Altaira writes: Mike Foster, one of our ORC scholars passed this on to me to put on the front page: Baylor University Professor Ralph Wood to give lecture on J.R.R. Tolkien at Wisconsin Lutheran College MILWAUKEE – Baylor University Professor Ralph Wood presents “J.R.R. Tolkien: Writer for Our Time of Terror” on Friday, February 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the Black Box Studio Theatre at Wisconsin Lutheran College. The lecture is free and open to the public. [More]
Altaira writes: Mike Foster, one of our ORC scholars passed this on to me to put on the front page:
Baylor University Professor Ralph Wood to give lecture on J.R.R. Tolkien at Wisconsin Lutheran College
MILWAUKEE – Baylor University Professor Ralph Wood presents “J.R.R. Tolkien: Writer for Our Time of Terror” on Friday, February 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the Black Box Studio Theatre at Wisconsin Lutheran College. The lecture is free and open to the public. The theatre is located in the college’s Center for Arts and Performance at 8815 W. Wisconsin Ave. For more information regarding this event, contact Dr. Peter Fraser at (414) 443-8792.
“It’s a dangerous business going out of your door,” says Bilbo Baggins (of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings). “You step into the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.” On September 11, 2001, more than three thousand Americans were swept to their deaths as a result of terrorist attacks. With uncanny prescience Tolkien predicted that ours would be a time of terror, evil striking us both from within and without. This lecture will be devoted to the naming of that terror, on the one hand, but also to identifying the hope which can enable us to live without panic and in the face of it.
Wood holds a Ph.D. from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. In 1998, he was appointed as an interdisciplinary university professor of theology and literature, teaching in the departments of religion and English as well as the Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Wood serves as editor-at-large for the Christian Century and as a member of the editorial board for the Flannery O’Connor Review. His Tolkien related works include The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle-earth .
Wisconsin Lutheran College is a liberal arts college located on the west side of Milwaukee.
Topaz writes: Well, I’m back – as Sam said. Or didn’t say, at least not on Sunday afternoon at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto where I saw the second ever performance of the new theatrical production of The Lord of the Rings. Long ago when I had first heard of plans to make LOTR into a musical, it scared me. Howard Shore had just done such an amazing job with the film scores, and now someone was going to make it all sound like Broadway? Please don’t…. Then as time went on and the production was to be in Toronto (half an hour from where I live), there began to be articles in the papers, interviews with the director – I read them and I began to feel less afraid that someone was going to ruin my favourite story. [More]
Both Orlando Bloom and Karl Urban have films coming out on DVD today. Bloom’s first contemporary outing in Cameron Crowe’s “Elizabethtown” and Urban’s action packed “Doom”. Take a look! [More]
Rebecca let us know about a Viggo Mortensen booksigning event later this month at the International Center of Photography in New York City (1133 Avenue of the Americas). Viggo will be signing copies of his new hardcover book ‘Linger’. Be there on Friday, February 17 from 5:00pm – 7:30pm and get copies of ‘Linger’ signed! Please note that no photographs or movie memorabilia will be signed. Art books only. [More]