holbytla writes: J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is on a new list compiled by the American Library Association of the most re-read fiction works (novels, plays an short stories). Other books on the list, which was not ranked, include:
- “The Color Purple”, Alice Walker
- The Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling
- “Pride and Prejudice”, Jane Austen
- Shakepeare’s plays
- “The Great Gatsby”, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “To Kill a Mockingbird”, Harper Lee
- “Little House on the Prairie”, Laura Ingalls Wilder
- “A Christmas Carol”, Charles Dickens
- “Winnie the Pooh”, A.A. Milne
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Josh writes: Just thought you’d like to know. I work in the Instructional Technology Center at the University of Tennessee at Martin. Recently, we began the implementation of a portal using Oracle, and we had to name the server. So, in honor of his journey to Mount Doom, and for saving Middle Earth, the server has been named “Frodo.” “frodo.utm.edu” will soon be a permanent fixture to our online presence. Anyway, just thought I’d pass that along. Oh, and LOTR rules!
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“I am no man!” When undercover warrior Eowyn roared these words in the Peter Jackson’s adaptation of “Return of the King” last year, just before trouncing the vilest of the bad guys, she got an appreciative roar from theater audiences. It was a great punch line — literally. [More]
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Magpie writes: The radio program, Speaking of Faith, addressed the topic of religion, fantasy and entertainment. They covered such diverse expressions of faith in entertainment as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Touched by an Angel. A guest on the program even made the assertion that Harry Potter and Mary Poppins are the same story told to two different eras. And of course, it covers the Lord of the Rings movies. [More]
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Who’s that character Morwen that ex-Shortland St. star Robyn Malcolm is going to play?
According to Saint of Killers:
“…it’s mentioned in the appendix A, section Two “The House of Eorl”. It says “….but Eowyn was slender and tall, with a grace and pride that came to her out of the South from Morwen of Lossarnach, whom the Rohirrim had called Steelsheen.” pg. 437 of the Ballantine paperback edition.
I also found an entry in the Tolkien Encyclopedia which says that she wedded Thengel of Rohan, and it was the first union of Dunedain and Rohirrim.
Morwen bore him Theoden and Theodwyn, among others.
Thanks, Saint. You’re a saint!
Mormegil pointed this out, though….
“If it is indeed Theoden’s mother who will be in the film she would be 97 years old. This seems a little silly as Theoden himself is supposedly to old to even leave his throne room. The most likely answer is that the Morwen character is someone who was named after the now dead queen.
Just a thought…”
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Not as ho-hum as you might think. Because it’s written by Terry Pratchett. Pratchett talking Tolkien? You bet that’s cool. Check it out here
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