Author James A. Owen has just released cover art for The Indigo King, the third book of his Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica series, which features three Inklings – J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams- as the heroes of the story.
As Caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica -the Atlas of Imaginary Places- they embark on an adventure that will change their lives and decide the fate of both the Fantasy World, and ours.
The Indigo King, to be released October 21, 2008, is the third book of James A. Owen’s series which debuted with Here, There be Dragons in 2006 and continued with The Search for the Red Dragon on January 2008. [Coppervale]
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Future “Hobbit” director Guillermo del Toro and former “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson sat down with a world-wide internet audience and answered a lot more than the announced “20 questions” this weekend.
Hosted by Weta, there were a lot of minor details and significant confirmations and revelations about the gigantic production that will yield two “Hobbit” related movies, one in 2011 and the second in 2012.
Peter Jackson said,
“2009 will be dedicated to pre-production on both movies and 2010 will be the year we shoot both films back to back. Post productin follows one film at a time with The Hobbit being released Dec(ember) 2011, and F2 (film two) release(d) Dec(ember) 2012.”
Continue reading “Hobbit chat with Peter Jackson and G. del Toro peppered with big news (and little details about both films)”
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From TimesOnline.com: “Christopher Tolkien, 83, is calling for “one last crusade” in a long-running court battle against the producers of The Lord of the Rings only weeks before carpenters are due to begin work in New Zealand on the sets for the latest Middle-earth epic.” Read more (Thanks to Ringer Spy J for the link)
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Just a quick reminder to Ringers in England – this weekend is “Monsters at the Mill” at Tolkien’s beloved Sarehole mill near Birmingham. Read More The Tolkien Society seminar, “Freedom, Fate and Choice in Middle-earth” takes place on June 28 in London – they are calling for papers now.
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Beren over at the Tolkien Library has just released his interview with Andrew Moreton. Moreton has written a book on one of the lesser-known, but possibly quite influential people in Tolkien’s early years: His Aunt Neave. Owner of the farm called Bag End, and a woman of wit, learning and strength, her relationship with her famous nephew is explored for the first time in the book Tolkien’s Gedling.
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Stories of dragons are as old as the written word and probably a lot older. To keep things inside the J.R.R. Tolkien realm, “Beowulf”, one of the oldest written stories of Europe features not only the monstrous Grendel but his serpentine Mother. Ancient biblical writings allude to the great serpent or dragon while global mythology has oversized lizard creatures popping up so consistently that some have suggested there must be some common shared memory or primitive survival instinct built into humanity to cause us to tell our tribal stories about such a monstrosity. Continue reading “The Dragon Problem: What challenges await GDT and WETA?”
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Author James A. Owen has just released cover art for The Indigo King, the third book of his Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica series, which features three Inklings – J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams- as the heroes of the story.