TORN people Tehanu and Quickbeam are at this weekend’s Mythcon for serious fantasy buffs. [More]
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It’s the convention season in the States, and the Mythopoeic Society’s Mythcon is on this weekend offering a contrast to the high-octane frenzy of things like Comicon. It’s a four-day event where people take time to examine (and define!) the whole genre of fantasy in great depth. People present papers on scholarly topics, and panels are convened to explore the landscape of fantasy in different directions. It’s all very low-key and relaxed, with little knots of people gathering in the shady arcades of the Clark-Kerr campus to argue about different editions of the Silmarillion etc. The breadth of knowledge amongst the Mythcon attendees is really amazing.
Tomorrow I’ll be more involved since there’s an interview with Philippa Boyens, one of the scriptwriters for the LOTR films, followed by a showing of the LOTR trailers and also of a section of an earlier Peter Jackson film, Heavenly Creaturs. After that, TORN’s Quickbeam and I will be on a panel talking about the movies from the fan perspective. More reports on that tomorrow.
From: Mike
Rolling Stone just came out with it’s ‘Hot Issue’ and under the heading Hot Buzz, there was a blurb on the movie. [More]
From: Mike
Rolling Stone just came out with it’s ‘Hot Issue’ and under the heading Hot Buzz, there was a blurb on the movie, here goes:
Given the dismal state of Hollywood blockbusters, the most exciting large-scale moviemaking anyone saw this summer was a twenty-minute peek at New Line’s big year-end spectacle, “The Fellowship of the Ring” – the first chapter of the filmed trilogy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic saga, “The Lord of the Rings.” People practically had to be strip-searched to get into the preview screening (Cali wears red boxers -Xo), what with the studio’s fear of cameras that could sneak the footage onto the Internet. Judging from the bit that was shown, director Peter Jackson has made a film rich in action and atmospherics, one that will certainly give “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” a hard fight for bragging rights as 2001’s top adventure-fantasy. What gives “Ring” the sharper edge is a fourteen-minute segment in which Frodo’s fellowship must pass through the Mines of Moria. It’s here that Jackson kicks into high gear with swords, arrows, vicious Orcs who look like cave trolls, and the computer-generated Balrog, a romping, stomping, fire-breathing, forty-foot tall chunk of living stone that leaves you saying, “Show me this movie now.” -Peter Travers
Thanks to Czech movie site Fantasyplanet.cz, we have an English version of an interview conducted between Miranda Otto (Eowyn) and Czech magazine Kvety. [More]
Ringer Spy CE sends along word that funtocollect.com has gone LOTR mad! Check out some of the goodies guaranteed to make some of you ill, but it’s still cool to see LOTR mugs, keychains and banks. And christmas is only 143 days away! [More]