Nicholas Tolkien, the great-grandson of JRR Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings, is directing his first film. JRR Tolkien’s family took legal action against the makers of The Lord of the Rings blockbusters over their £3 billion royalties, but his great-grandson has not been scared off film making. Nicholas Tolkien, 19, who makes his debut with Anacapa, says: “After dealing with the Byzantine workings of Hollywood, I thought, ‘you know what, I can finance this film and direct it, so let’s just do it’.” More..
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Dr Dimitra Fimi writes: Enrolment is now open for two new, exciting online courses on Tolkien and on Fantasy Literature, offered by University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UWIC) and taught by Dr Dimitra Fimi (author of Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits, which recently won the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies). You can enroll online here, the courses will be taught entirely online and they are open to students and adult learners all over the world. Continue reading “Tolkien and Fantasy Online Courses at UWIC – Online Enrolment now open!”
Jo-Anna writes: Tolkien-based journal “Silver Leaves” Issue 3, has released as of Monday, July 12, 2010. The theme is Tolkien and other high fantasy artwork. We are very excited about getting this beautiful publication into folks’ hands. With contributors including Ted Nasmith, Jef Murray, Virginia Lee, Brian Sibley, Tom Shippey, Tim Kirk , Colleen Doran, David Wyatt, John Dickenson, along with many others, it could be almost considered a collectible. Ordering information is at www.whitetreefund.org. Continue reading “‘Silver Leaves’ Issue 3 Released”
24th – 26th September, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
A weekend of Talking Tolkien, friendship and Fellowship, academic talks and papers, a fiendish quiz, an Art Show, Merry & Pippin’s Dance Workshop, a Dealers’ Room, and Enyalië (act of remembrance at Tolkien’s grave). Continue reading “Oxonmoot 2010 Announcement”
Reported by the blog File 770, the winners of the 2010 Mythopoeic Society Awards were announced on July 11 at Mythcon 41 in Dallas.
- Fantasy Awards, Adult Literature
Jo Walton, Lifelode (NESFA Press) [Amazon.com] - Fantasy Awards, Children’s Literature
Grace Lin, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Little, Brown) [Amazon.com] - Scholarship Awards, Inklings Studies
Dimitra Fimi, Tolkien, Race, and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) [Amazon.com] - Scholarship Awards, Myth and Fantasy Studies
Marek Oziewicz, One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L’Engle and Orson Scott Card (McFarland, 2008) [Amazon.com]
TORn would like to congratulate the winners! For more information on the Mythopoeic Society and Awards, please visit their website. [Mythopoetic Society]
An annual Tolkien-inspired Art Exhibition, held at The Redesdale Hall, Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos will, for the first time, feature an original Tolkien drawing from 1911.
It is the first public showing of the Original drawing of “Lamb’s Farm, Gedling” drawn by JRR Tolkien in 1911, and is significant because it shows an early version of the famous JRRT monogram, and also because it was in this location, inspired by a line from Crist by the Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf, that Tolkien later wrote a poem of his own, The Voyage of Earendil the Evening Star. From this small beginning, in the buildings shown in this picture, his epic “Silmarillion” began, that grew and eventually led over time to the creation of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Continue reading “Unseen Original Tolkien Artwork Exhibit”