Mary Ann writes: Verlyn Flieger, author of two books on Tolkien (Splintered Light, and A Question of Time) and a professor of English at the University of Maryland College Park will be giving a lecture series on Tolkien with the Smithsonian Resident Associates program in Washington, DC starting November 2003. [www.si.edu]
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Celebrities ‘Shoot for The Stars’ with Sony Ericsson and Raise Money for Kids. Actors, Musicians, Sports, and Fashion Favorites Share “Slice of Life” Moments with Mobile Phone Camera; Pictures to be Auctioned at Charity Event. This fall, stars from music, sports, television, fashion and film worlds will join together to raise money for charity while snapping pictures of everyday life with their Sony Ericsson T610/T616 camera phone. Participating in Sony Ericsson’s “Shoot for the Stars” are celebrities such as Lenny Kravitz, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd and more. [More]
Ringers Lee and James have both reported that the Vancouver Famous Players Capitol 6 is inexplicably not selling tickets to TT until DECEMBER 16th, as per their business office. If anyone was able to purchase tickets to that theater over the web, those tickets should be verified with the theater.
UPDATE: Lee writes in with more information regarding Capitol 6 ticket sales. [More]
The time has come for the Hobbits to travel home to the Shire. They leave Minas Tirith in the company of the nobility of Rohan and Gondor, and their comrades of the Fellowship of the Ring. With them ride Celeborn and Galadriel with their folk, and Elrond and his sons. A great company following Theoden Thengel’s son home from the field of Gondor. [More]
We’ve updated our Canadian Trilogy Tuesday page with some more tidbits of information from Ringers up North (well, north of me). Check them out HERE.
Lord of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen will be joined by his castmates and the Queen of Denmark at a royal premiere of Return of the King in Copenhagen. The proud Dane, who religiously visits his homeland twice a year, is delighted that big stars Liv Tyler, Orlando Blooom(sic), Elijah Wood and Sir Ian McKellen have agreed to make the trip. [More]