We got this from a mailing list: Wayne Hammond & Christina Scull will be talking about their work on Tolkien, especially “The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion”, at Water Street Books, 26 Water Street in Williamstown (north-west Massachusetts), 6:30 to 8:00 tonight, Jan 12. If you are in the area, make it a point to meet these great Tolkien scholars!
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Celevon writes: The authors of Lembas for the Soul would like to thank the TORn community for nominating our book for the ORC award for Best Tolkien-themed book of 2005. It’s truly an honor to be nominated in the company of such distinguished artists and Tolkien authors. Now that the holiday rush is over, we’ve finally had time to pull together some photos of the Lembas launch party at the LOTR Exhibit at the Indiana State Museum in December. [More]
This Saturday, Hall of Fire is going to the geek side. Instead of a topic chat, we’ll be hauling out our copies of the Fellowship of the Ring EE DVD, dusting them off and popping them into the DVD player. And after the usual confusion, at around 5.30pm EST we’ll all press play on our individual DVD players and proceed to cheer and jeer (or discuss and argue, if you like!) the finer points of the film.
We’d be delighted if you could join us.
We plan to take a break midway through the film, to allow for stretching of fingers and backs. Barliman will be on hand to serve drinks and snacks (and to enforce the house rules).
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WHEN WILL IT HAPPEN?
Saturday January 14
Time zone conversions:
Not sure what time the chat will be where you are? Check this little conversion table out for some help.
America:
5.30pm EST (New York)
4.30pm CST (Chicago)
3.30pm MST (Salt Lake City)
2.30pm PST (Los Angeles)
Europe:
10.30pm GMT (London)
11.30pm CET (Paris)
Asia-Pacific:
6.30am AWST (Sunday 11th) Perth
8.30am AEST (Sunday 11th) Brisbane
9.30am AEDT (Sunday 11th) Sydney
11.30am NZDT (Sunday 11th) Wellington
WHERE?
On TORn’s IRC server, in the #thehalloffire channel. After joining the server, type /join #thehalloffire to get there.
If you’ve never been to TORn’s IRC server before, you can join through our java applet and type /join #thehalloffire once you’re signed in. We recommend you visit our FAQ for some guidelines on using our IRC service. Barliman’s is a place for good conversation about JRR Tolkien’s works. We welcome you to our community and ask that you, and all guests, abide by some simple guidelines.
HOW?
Once everyone is in #moviechat and has their DVD ready to go, the ops will moderate the room and have a countdown to “Play.” I expect that we will be able to give minute-markers throughout the evening for latecomers. A break will be taken midway through — the exact point will be announced in the topic.
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That’s all, folks! See you this weekend!
Christopher Nightingale doesn’t mind admitting that when he first heard London producer Kevin Wallace discuss plans for a stage musical based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, he thought “it was a really bad idea.” Of course, Nightingale is quick to add that when the notion was first broached three years ago, it was premised on an entirely different theatrical template than the $27-million show that will have its world premiere at Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre on March 23 (after six weeks in previews beginning Feb. 2). [More]
Talking Tolkien – A podcast about the Tolkien Society Archives.
Since 1969 the Tolkien Society has been collecting all sorts of items that have been created or inspired by the writings of JRR Tolkien.
In their archives they hold a variety of objects, from paintings by Italian fans to key rings from fast-food chains.
In 2002 Xan Phillips interviewed the Tolkien Society’s archivist Pat Reynolds. Xan was making a two hour radio special which was to air just before the release of ‘The Two Towers’ the second film in Peter Jackson’s epic trilogy.
Thanks to the cinematic triumph of the films the globally perceived images of Frodo and Gollum were to change forever. So how would effect the literature and marketing ephemera surrounding the Professor? – it was an interesting point in ‘Tolkien time’.
The visit to the archives also brought up the opportunity to look at some of the previous items the society had collected, to delve into the history of the books and, of course, talk about Tolkien.
Podcast: Xan Phillips presents
Feature Title: Talking About Tolkien
Running time: 29 minutes
Link: http://www.xan.co.uk/volume_39.php
Web site: http://www.xan.co.uk/
