Ringers Fiver and Niofiel are writing daily reviews of the Mythic Journeys Con. Here is (a bit out of order) their report on Day Two, featuring Dr. Verlyn Flieger, Alan Lee, and Dr. Ari Berk. Day One will be along shortly. [More]
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Ringers Wee Little Elf and Katherine wrote reviews of Howard Shore conducting the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. [More]
Penthe writes: There is an article on Tolkien fan communities and the production of the LOTR films in the new edition of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies. TORn is mentioned on page 12 at some length. [Order here]
Bruce Hopkins has updated his website with some news about upcoming plans and Operation Read: “Gidday You Lot, (by “you lot” I mean anyone who turns up at this here site. By being here it means you have a commonality with anyone else who has ever visited this site, so welcome to the “you lot” whanau (in Maori, wahanu can mean an extended family).” [More]
Ringer Spy Eruanno chimed in with the following: I noticed this offhand reference to LotR from the NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory director. He was commenting on the Cassini spacecraft mission to Saturn: “The objective of the Cassini-Huygens (mission) is very simple: It’s to allow us to rewrite the story of the lord of the rings.” You can find the article using this link; third paragraph.
Ringer Spy Farrah pointed out that today’s Big Nate-comic has a huge ‘Lord of the Rings-influence’. Check it out here!