Katrelya writes: Tom Shippey will be speaking on Thursday, February 7, at Azusa Pacific University at the conference “C.S. Lewis, the Inklings, and the Call to Christian Community.” His keynote address will be “The two Images, Discarded and Rejected?” I have forwarded you the message from Edie Dougherty from the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society. I hope many of us can take advantage of this great opportunity to hear Tom! [Azusa Pacific University]
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Vanessa “Saffron” Price, Online Community Representative for Turbine, Inc. writes: We’re pleased to announce the LOTRO Loading Screen Contest! LOTRO fans, it’s time to show your favorite pictures: Just submit an in-game screenshot and it may be featured as the next new loading screen in LOTRO! See rules below. Good luck and we look forward to seeing your screenshots! The LOTRO Loading Screen Contest
Composer Howard Shore brought J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary imagination to vivid life with his Academy®- and Grammy® Award-winning score to Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Shore crafted a fully-developed musical epic that related the classic tale with moving and intricately related themes for each of Middle-earth’s cultures and charted the One Ring’s journey with an exhilarating flourish. [muenchenevent.de] Continue reading “Watch FOTR with Live Music in Germany”
The following YouTube video confirms that Guillermo Del Toro will be directing ‘The Hobbit’ films. UPDATE An inside source has sent us an update. [Click Here]
See below for the video – The important part starts around :40
UPDATE Please note, in this video, you will see the Director of ‘The Orphanage’, Juan Antonio Bayona is on the left – to his right is the star of the movie, Belen Rueda – and Guillermo Del Toro is standing next to her.
Female Translator: Today it is our pleasure to announce something that everyone was hoping for, Guillermo will direct ‘The Hobbit’
(Clapping)
Female Translator: And he will give a small role to (the Spanish translator)
ITV is producing another Sharpe tale starring Sean Bean scheduled to screen later in 2008. Sharpe’s Peril takes up where the 2006 two-parter, watched by seven million viewers, left off. Sharpe and Harper lead an East India Company train through enemy territory and face off the inevitable bandit attack. The adventure is part of a new raft of dramas scheduled by ITV for the autumn. Sean Bean to star in another Sharpe adventure
Horsegirl writes: Olympic champion Event rider, Mark Todd (of New Zealand) has a new mount he’s going to try to go to this year’s Olympics with. The horse’s name is GANDALF! Fits, doesn’ it- being a New Zealand -bred horse. There’s an American rider who rides a horse called Frodo Baggins. And it goes on and on… [Mark Todd’s Olympic Profile]
UPDATE: It turns out that “Frodo Baggins” is a 13 year old black New Zealand bred Thoroughbred who actually starred as one of the Black Rider’s mounts in FOTR!! He even walked down the red carpet at the premiere of the film with Elijah Woods himself.
For more about “Frodo Baggins” and his rider Lainey Ashker, go here.
Thanks to Roheryn for doing a little more digging!