From NarniaWeb: Staff member Jints sent in the following transcript of the Radio Cafe interview with C.S. Lewis expert Brian Sibley and literary agent Katherine Ross. The interview originally aired on Radio Scotland’s “Radio Cafe” programme on Thursday, July 7th. [More]
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Margaret writes: I was listening to the NPR show Studio 360 this morning, and the subject of the show, explored several ways, was parody. One of the stories was about a parody of DVD commentaries, with partisan pundits finding movie symbolism agreeing with their philosophy in contemporary film. This has been done for FOTR. The writers of this parody are portraying Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky. They talk about the “pipe weed-based economy” of Hobbiton, “economic sactions faced by Mordor,” and about the Orcs being “desperate to compete with the economic powerhouses of Rohan and Gondor.” [More]
This weekend, Hall of Fire resumes discussing the Silmarillion with chapter 10 – Of The Sindar. After the dramatic rebellion of the Noldor, our focus switches to the rise of the mightiest kingdom of the Sindar – that of Thingol and Melian in Doriath. We’ll discuss the arrival of the dwarves, and examine the affect their partnership has on Doriath’s development and the events surrounding the creation of Menegroth and the girdling of Doriath by the power of Melian. [More]
Ringer Celebriel just returned from an LOTR locations tour in New Zealand. Today starts her day-by-day account of the visit: Our tour of Middle Earth started appropriately enough in The Shire. The Hobbiton set is located on the Alexander farm outside Matamata, about two hours south of Auckland. The farm covers 1250 acres and is used to raise Romney sheep and Angus cattle. The location is as magical in real life as it appears in The Fellowship of the Ring. The landscape has about 80 shades of green and light that casts a golden glow at certain times of day. [More]
From Hollywood’s first full-length animated feature, Disney’s glorious and haunting Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937, to the mega-hits of recent years like The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc., the Shreks and Toy Stories, moviegoers have thrilled to the art and magic of animation. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents “The Animated Performance: Art Meets Technology,” a program that explores the science and technology behind the art of animation on Friday, July 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The evening’s special guests include Academy Award winners Brad Bird (The Incredibles, The Iron Giant) and Jan Pinkava (Geri’s Game), Academy Award nominee Bill Kroyer (Technological Threat) and animators Richie Baneham and Steve Hornby (Lord of the Rings Gollum animators), Randy Cartwright, Eric Goldberg, Tom Sito and Kathy Zielinski. [More]
Although it’s been six years since Emiliana Torrini’s last album, the Roland Orzabal-produced Love in the Time of Science, the Icelandic beauty has been busy though largely hidden from view. She performed the haunting “Gollum’s Song” for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, wrote and toured with Thievery Corporation, collaborated with Smog’s Bill Callahan and provided Kylie Minogue with her 2003 #1 U.K. hit “Slow.” Lastly, she readied her sparse, whispering return to the spotlight, Fisherman’s Woman, an attention-rewarding listen bearing few traces of her lavish debut. [More]
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