{"id":24289,"date":"2005-07-29T13:08:37","date_gmt":"2005-07-29T18:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2005\/07\/29\/alan-lee-book-tour\/"},"modified":"2005-07-29T13:08:37","modified_gmt":"2005-07-29T18:08:37","slug":"alan-lee-book-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2005\/07\/29\/24289-alan-lee-book-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Lee Book Tour!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Houghton Mifflin will be sending Alan Lee, acclaimed LOTR  illustrator and Academy Award-winning conceptual designer for the film trilogy, on a U.S. tour this October to discuss his brand-new book, <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0618640142\/qid=1122660441\/theoneringnet\" TARGET=NEW>THE LORD OF THE RINGS SKETCHBOOK<\/a>. The book presents more than 150 of Lee&#8217;s celebrated illustrations to show how his imagery for both the illustrated Lord of the Rings and the films progressed from concept to finished art. In addition, the book contains 20 full-color plates and numerous examples of the conceptual art produced for Peter Jackson&#8217;s film adaptation. Lee&#8217;s events will feature a slide show, a Q&#038;A with fans, and a booksigning.<\/p>\n<p>Tour Schedule:<\/p>\n<p>October 22 @ 12:00 noon<br \/>Books of Wonder<br \/>18 West 18th Street (b\/t 5th &#038; 6th Ave)<br \/>New York, NY 10011<br \/>212-989-3270<\/p>\n<p>October 24 @ 7:00 p.m.<br \/>Friends Select School<br \/>1651 Benjamin Franklin Parkway  (17th &#038; Parkway)<br \/>Philadelphia, PA 19103<br \/>215-563-4184 (phone # for Joseph Fox Bookshop, which is sponsoring the<br \/>event)<\/p>\n<p>October 25 @ 7:00 p.m.<br \/>Chapter 11<br \/>Peachtree Battle Shopping Center<br \/>2345-A Peachtree Rd.<br \/>Atlanta, GA 30305<br \/>404-237-7199<\/p>\n<p>October 26 @ 7:00 p.m.<br \/>BookPeople<br \/>603 N. Lamar (6th &#038; Lamar)<br \/>Austin, TX 78703<br \/>512-472-5050<\/p>\n<p>October 27 @ 7:30 p.m.<br \/>Tattered Cover<br \/>1628 16th Street<br \/>Denver, CO 80202<br \/>303-436-1070<\/p>\n<p>October 28 @ 7:00 p.m.<br \/>Borders Books<br \/>132 E. Winchester<br \/>Murray, UT 84107<br \/>801-313-1020<\/p>\n<p>October 29 @ 7:00 p.m.<br \/>Book Passage<br \/>51 Tamal Vista Blvd.<br \/>Corte Madera, CA 94925<br \/>415-927-0960<\/p>\n<p>October 31 @ 7:00 p.m.<br \/>University Bookstore<br \/>4326 University Way NE<br \/>Seattle, WA 98105<br \/>206-634-3400<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houghton Mifflin will be sending Alan Lee, acclaimed LOTR illustrator and Academy Award-winning conceptual designer for the film&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-special-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-6jL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}