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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My Spy over at the production Company that made the LOTR book commercial has come through with a downloadable version for your PC. It’s 1653K It took me about 9 mins so that ain’t bad. Watch it now!
Lord Of The Rings Book Commercial
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A very sick Xoanon here, (cough)
I recieved this on good authority from sources at Houghton Mifflin, the dudes who made the TV ad.
The ad has nothing directly to do with promoting the film in any way, nor did it use funds provided by anyone connected with the films. It was produced by
Houghton Mifflin Company (US publishers of the works of Tolkien for over 60 years) in association with Ballantine Books (US publishers of the mass market
editions) to promote Tolkien generally, and to promote the new, first time available in the US one-volume trade paperback we at Houghton have just released. The ad (for the moment) runs this week only on FX and the Sci-Fi network during The X-Files and Star Trek reruns.
My spy over at Houghton Mifflin tells me that he’ll have more for me in days to come!
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