The International Astronomical Union (IAU) recently approved a proposal to assign names to nine impact craters on the planet Mercury.
What does this have to do with Tolkien fandom? Well, in keeping with the established naming theme for craters on Mercury, they are all named after famous deceased artists, musicians, or authors or other contributors to the humanities. One of the craters has been named in honour of JRR Tolkien.
The IAU has been the arbiter of planetary and satellite nomenclature since its inception in 1919.
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As you probably know, Games Workshop creates tabletop war-gaming miniatures. One of the licenses it holds is for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
The clever folks on our message boards have very recently unearthed on Pastebin a list of film-related gaming miniatures that GW is set to release in the near future. This is potentially of interest not only to tabletop gamers, but also to film spoiler hunters.
It’s hard to to know far one can legitimately extrapolate from this list to scenes, and creatures, that might make it into the movies, but there is certainly heaps of food for thought here! If you want to put in your two cents, head on over to our message boards where a healthy discussion is going on about the implications.
Full list below the cut — and, be warned, plenty of potential spoilers too! Continue reading “Games Workshop minatures list holds Hobbit spoilers?”
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The Mythopoeic Society is a non-profit organisation devoted to the study of mythopoeic literature — particularly the works of members of the informal Oxford literary circle known as the Inklings that included JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis.
The society recently announced the winners of its annual literature awards at Mythcon 43 in Berkeley, California. Recipients included:
- Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature. Lisa Goldstein, The Uncertain Places (Tachyon Publications)
- Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature. Delia Sherman, The Freedom Maze (Big Mouth House)
- Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies. Carl Phelpstead, Tolkien and Wales: Language, Literature and Identity (Univ. of Wales Press, 2011)
- Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies. Jack Zipes, The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films (Routledge, 2011)
A complete list of Mythopoeic Award winners is available on the Society web site.
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On this mornings New Zealand’s TVNZ Breakfast Show they interviewed Barry Humphries (the voice of the The Goblin King) about his role in The Hobbit and about his farewell tour “Eat, Pray, Laugh!” for his iconic alter-ego Dame Edna Everage.
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According to Tom Scott from the Dominion Post, none of Wellingtons cinemas have yet confirmed that they will be receiving The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in 48fps.
Peter Jackson’s spokesman Matt Dravitzki referred The Dominion Post to Warner Bros. The Post was unable to reach Warners, and local distributors Roadshow Entertainment did not return the paper’s calls.
Both the Miramar Roxy Cinema, and Event Cinemas which runs the Embassy Theater (and is expected will host An Unexpected Journey’s world premiere) expect to receive a 48fps copies. They are currently investing in the technology required to screen high-frame rate films.
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This weekend, we resume our Fellowship of the Ring read-through in Hall of Fire with Frodo and the other hobbits holed-up in one of the Prancing Pony’s private parlour rooms under the protection of Strider.
At the same time, far away in Buckland, fellow-conspirator Fatty Bolger senses the approach of deadly danger.
“AWAKE! FEAR! FIRE! FOES! AWAKE!”
FoTR: Book One, Chapter 11 — A Knife in the Dark Continue reading “Hall of Fire this weekend — A Knife in the Dark”
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