24th – 26th September, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
A weekend of Talking Tolkien, friendship and Fellowship, academic talks and papers, a fiendish quiz, an Art Show, Merry & Pippin’s Dance Workshop, a Dealers’ Room, and Enyalië (act of remembrance at Tolkien’s grave). Continue reading “Oxonmoot 2010 Announcement”
Year: 2010
Peter Marks writes: Let me confess that I can’t tell whether I’m a fan of “The Lord of the Rings”: I’ve never read the books or seen the movies. (Yes, we aliens live among you.) But it must be saying something that even a Tolkien agnostic can chuckle over Charles Ross’s “One Man Lord of the Rings,” his virtuoso encapsulation of the film trilogy. More..
“The Hobbit” still has not been officially greenlighted, but director Peter Jackson is in Los Angeles this week quietly meeting with actors. The casting trip, which also included stops in New York and the U.K., underscores the progress being made on a complex series of deals to bring J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy novel to the big screen.
Sources say Jackson’s pact with Warner Bros. to direct the two-part “Hobbit” adaptation is close to done, but the sticking point continues to be the dire financial situation at MGM, which holds half the rights to the property. More..
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Reported by the blog File 770, the winners of the 2010 Mythopoeic Society Awards were announced on July 11 at Mythcon 41 in Dallas.
- Fantasy Awards, Adult Literature
Jo Walton, Lifelode (NESFA Press) [Amazon.com] - Fantasy Awards, Children’s Literature
Grace Lin, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Little, Brown) [Amazon.com] - Scholarship Awards, Inklings Studies
Dimitra Fimi, Tolkien, Race, and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) [Amazon.com] - Scholarship Awards, Myth and Fantasy Studies
Marek Oziewicz, One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L’Engle and Orson Scott Card (McFarland, 2008) [Amazon.com]
TORn would like to congratulate the winners! For more information on the Mythopoeic Society and Awards, please visit their website. [Mythopoetic Society]
Calling his decision to walk away from directing The Hobbit “the biggest heartbreak of my life professionally”, Guillermo del Toro is getting ready to bounce back.
Del Toro plans to attend Comic-Con to be part of a preview for Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, a horror film he both produced and co-wrote. He clearly still likes to excite his fans and noted “We’re gonna announce a few things at Comic-Con that are surprises. But I’m probably going to announce my next directing project right after Comic-Con. It’s a pretty big one.” That should perk up the ears of those who love his movies.
While del Toro truly was saddened to leave The Hobbit (possibly to Peter Jackson’s direction), he did tell Entertainment Weekly that “at the same time, I’m entirely at peace with it.” Read the entire article here.