The Magic Ring meets The Lord of the Rings. Before Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings was the Baron de la Motte Fouqué’s The Magic Ring in 1813. Fouqué’s three-volume epic fantasy was immensely popular and influential when it was released. The Magic Ring shares many similar inspirations with Tolkien’s work, including the Icelandic Eddas, the Germanic Nibelungenlied, and the medieval interlace structure. [More]
Month: June 2006
When: Wednesday, June 21, at 6:30pm
Where: Belmont University in Nashville, TN, USA (Massey Business Center 413)
Who: Amy H. Sturgis, Ph.D.
What: The Magic Ring meets The Lord of the Rings. Before Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings was the Baron de la Motte Fouqué’s The Magic Ring in 1813. Fouqué’s three-volume epic fantasy was immensely popular and influential when it was released. The Magic Ring shares many similar inspirations with Tolkien’s work, including the Icelandic Eddas, the Germanic Nibelungenlied, and the medieval interlace structure. Furthermore, The Magic Ring’s influence can be traced through William Morris and George MacDonald to Tolkien’s very understanding and writing of “fairy-stories.” How did this remarkable work become lost to English readers? Why is it important that it has been restored to fantasy readers and Tolkien fans now? Learn about this important “missing link” in the tradition of The One Ring and its literary story across time!
For whom: The public is welcome at no charge
Where to find more information: belmont.edu and valancourtbooks.com
A ton of interesting new films are out on DVD this week. Take an early look on our ‘DVD Tuesday’ feature…every Monday! Check out Syriana, Night Watch, The Hills Have Eyes, Eight Below & more! [More]
New Zealand tourism should try to get extra mileage out of the Hollywood-backed pulling power of blockbuster director Peter Jackson. With The Lord Of The Rings publicity rush over, Jackson himself has been suggested as a campaign frontman to boost visitor numbers from the celebrity focused United States. The Wellington film director should be asked to step into a role similar to that once occupied by Crocodile Dundee promoting Australia, says Michael McClelland an American travel operator selling New Zealand holidays. He envisaged Jackson in a barefoot stance holding a glass of New Zealand wine tempting North American travellers here, and had suggested the idea to Tourism New Zealand boss George Hickton. [More]
TolkienBooks.net has published plans for a series of fourteen articles tracing the early publishing history of The Lord of the Rings. While the process of writing The Lord of the Rings has been described in detail by Christopher Tolkien in the History of Middle-earth series, less is known of the production and early publishing history of the books. [More]
TolkienBooks.net has published plans for a series of fourteen articles tracing the early publishing history of The Lord of the Rings.
While the process of writing The Lord of the Rings has been described in detail by Christopher Tolkien in the History of Middle-earth series, less is known of the production and early publishing history of the books.
Some of Tolkien’s thoughts and actions are recorded in the selection of his letters that have been published in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, and Wayne Hammond’s Tolkien bibliography includes a fairly detailed chronology of events up to the publication of The Return of the King in October 1955, but there is great deal more information that is not so widely available. This includes Rayner Unwin’s account of his relationship with Tolkien in his book George Allen & Unwin: A Remembrancer, and correspondence held in the Allen & Unwin archive at Reading University.
The articles will cover a variety of aspects of the bibliography of The Lord of the Rings and will, when completed, trace the publishing history from Tolkien’s attempts to secure the publication of both LotR and The Silmarillion in the early 1950s through to the publication of the Second Edition in the mid-1960s. The article titles are:
1. Who will publish this “Monster”?
2. The Early Publishing History of The Fellowship of the Ring
3. The Early Publishing History of The Two Towers
4. The Early Publishing History of The Return of the King
5. The First Impression of The Return of the King
6. The First Boxed Edition
7. The Readers Union Edition
8. The First Deluxe Edition
9. Print Run Sizes and Dates
10. A Brief Guide to the Houghton Mifflin Edition
11. The Ace Books Affair
12. The Second Edition
13. The Lord of the Rings – An Illustrated Bibliography
14. The Lord of the Rings – A Bibliography of Boxed Sets
For further details visit An Illustrated Tolkien Bibliography – http://www.tolkienbooks.net/html/lotr-notes.htm