Anwyn writes: Green Books keeps it coming with a brand-new Q&A and extensive Moon Letters section of fan work. Thanks to all you loyal and patient Green Bookers out there, and look for our next update in April! [Green Books]
Category: Old Main News
Dr. Amy H. Sturgiswill discuss the imaginative and expressive potential for fan fiction through an examination of fan-authored stories about the long-ignored Lord of the Rings character Rosie Cotton. Dr. Sturgis will demonstrate how fan writers use Rosie as a voice for their own identities and interests (making her in turn a domestic paragon, a sexual iconoclast, and a supernatural changeling), and how they strive to make Rosie an equal to the male characters in Tolkien’s works. This academic lecture is based on Dr. Sturgis’s forthcoming article in the scholarly journal Mythlore. [More]
Jeremy writes: As part of the UK’s BBC Comic Releif you can vote for a guest celebrity to appear in BBC Radio 4’s “The Archers” on Friday. One of the candidates is Ian McKellen. [More]
Peter Jackson will take time out from filming King Kong and suing Hollywood studio New Line Cinema to speak about his Lord of the Rings movies in Sydney next week. Jackson will speak for two hours at the Powerhouse Museum in the Australian city on March 12. The Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy – The Exhibition, developed with Te Papa, has been on show there for several months, attracting 128,000 visitors. Tickets for An Evening with Peter Jackson are $A65 ($NZ70). [More]
Turgon writes: The schedule for the Oxford Literary Festival, which runs from Sunday April 10th through Sunday April 17th in Oxford, has been posted on their website. Tolkien fans might be interested in a few events, one by Green Books contributor Olog-Hai (Henry Gee), another on Tolkien’s biographer, Humphrey Carpenter, who passed away earlier this year. [More]
Celticwench sends along this link to archive video of the Richard Taylor and Tania Rodger lecture at the Powerhouse Museum in Australia. [More]