Jincey has posted the schedule for the 2005 Dragon*Con. Special guests will be John Noble (Denethor), Bruce Hopkins (Gamling), and the production crew of Ringers: Lord of the Fans! See the schedule [Here]
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Hall of Fire discussions resumes this Sunday August 21 with The Silmarillion, with Chapter 11: Of the Sun and the Moon and the Hiding of the Valinor. Following the events of the kinslaying, The Silmarillion leaves the divided and scattered elvish communities, and returns to the plight of the Valar in the aftermath of the loss of the trees of light.
We ponder Tolkien’s myth-like explanation of the Middle-earth cosmos. Does it fit with your conception of Middle-earth, or does it seem contrived? How is it similar to human myths handed down from time immemorial? And how is it different? What is the reasoning and significance of the choices of Tilion and Arien as the bearers of light? [More]
Today Elijah Wood’s film ‘Sin City’ is out on DVD. Amazon.com calls it ‘Brutal and breathtaking, Sin City is Robert Rodriguez’s stunningly realized vision of Frank Miller’s pulpy comic books… [More]
Sûlien writes: Just thought you folks at TOR.n might want to know that Toyota has apparently adopted the Watcher in the Water for their new ad. Here’s the link to view it, it’s quite funny! (3MB MPEG download!) [More]
It might be a scene out of a Cinemax movie: A proper English wife succumbs to her desires and makes mad love to the burly worker in the greenhouse. But in “Asylum,” opening Friday, the woman in question is a doctor’s wife and the worker is an inmate in a British psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane. For Marton Csokas, the film’s hulking six-foot-three-inch tall Edgar Stark, an artist who murdered his wife in a jealous rage, making love to such beautiful women as “Asylum” heroine Natasha Richardson’s Stella is a familiar day’s work. [More]
More than 70 delegates from around the world have gathered at Aston University for Tolkien 2005, according to The Guardian. The events include a lecture from Professor Tom Shippey, hobbit dances, evening performances, and more. Read about Tolkien in the Land of Heroes to find out more about the mythology in Tolkien’s works, and discover the biography of Tolkien with J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century. [More]