“Maps: Finding Our Place in the World” will feature more than 130 famous or prized maps. Organizers, who will officially announce the show Friday, are billing it as the most ambitious cartography exhibit ever in North America. Pieces confirmed for display include a 3,500-year-old clay tablet detailing walls, gates and palaces in the town of Nippur in what is now Iraq; three drawings by Leonardo da Vinci rarely lent from the English royal collection; the map Charles Lindbergh carried with him on his history-making flight from New York to Paris; and drawings by author J.R.R. Tolkien of his fictional Middle-earth. [More]
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An English photographer is holding the first ever exhibition of digital imaging at a childhood haunt of author J.R.R. Tolkien in Hall Green, Birmingham, England. Sarehole Mill, the last functioning watermill in Birmingham, is now a museum and place of international pilgrimage for fans of ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘The Lord of the Rings’, and hosts the annual Tolkien Weekend (next on 19-20 May, 2007) Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien lived nearby as a child, and often visited the Mill, which features in his all-time bestselling fantasy books as ‘The Old Mill’ at Hobbiton, the home town of hobbits Bilbo and Frodo Baggins. He also explored nearby Moseley Bog nature reserve and later lived near ‘The Two Towers’ in Edgbaston. [More]
Draug the Unspeakably Violent points out on our message boards found here, that “The Children of Hurin” has humbled a certain boy wizard by knocking him from the top spot on a bestseller’s list. Seems J.R.R. Tolkien is still a wee bit popular. The story can be found here. And of you can join the fray and buy the new Tolkien book here.
David writes: If you are quick, you can hear a fascinating interview with Adam Tolkien on his father and the Children of Hurin on the website of “Today” the BBC’s most influential radio programme. You have to be quick because they tend to put the material on their site only until the following day. [More]
Philip writes: I haven’t seen this posted yet on theonering.net, but the Tolkien Estate website, which for a long time has just been a single “under construction” page with some basic information about The Children of Hurin, has been updated. It’s definitely still a work in progress, but there’s an interesting FAQ section and some other stuff that’s been added. [More]
Today is Andy Serkis’ Birthday! Andy was born on April 20, 1964, in Ruislip Manor, West London. That makes him 43 today! Happy Birthday Andy!