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'Once Dead' is hot property for Supernatural Summer tour

29 May 2009 09:17:22 PDT

OR The Harry Potter and Twilight series prove the strong appeal of fantasy, as do perennials such as JRR Tolkien. (Novels written in the Tolkien style are known as high fantasy.) "I think a lot of it has to do with Hollywood, too," Harrison said. ...

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Comment mentir à propos d'un livre de SF et de Fantasy

29 May 2009 01:59:28 PDT

France JRR Tolkien : You saw the movies, right ? All you need to know is there's no dwarf tossing in the book and no Tom Bombadil in the movies. Tom Bombadil is a sort of immortal hippy. For extra credit, mention that the loneliness of the Ents makes you sad.

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Invasion - Conjure War

28 May 2009 09:56:16 PDT

UK Transpose these tales of evil forests, bloody battles and vengeful wizards to the 21st century and you've got a social commentary JRR Tolkien would be proud of. Duly snapped up by the ever erudite This Is Music, Invasions' debut album The Master ...

Original story at I Like Music .

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Trinity Christian School graduates a special, small class

26 May 2009 10:29:51 PDT

ND He also quoted his favorite author, JRR Tolkien: “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” After each graduate was presented with a diploma, the students moved their tassels to signify they had graduated, ...

Original story at Williston Daily Herald .

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I'm related to JRR Tolkien

23 May 2009 00:06:16 PDT

DELVING into her family's history led to a Gloucester woman discovering she is related to famous author JRR Tolkien. Sue Stafford learned of the link to the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings, who died in 1973, after she researched her ...

Original story at thisisgloucestershire.co.uk .

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E-mail from Middle-earth

21 May 2009 10:07:02 PDT

United States I've never been a big Tolkien fan—nothing against old JRR, whom my eleven-year-old son and his pals love, as do plenty of my own more senior friends. It's just that for some reason my mental immune system had rejected “The Lord of the Rings” every time ...

Original story at New Yorker .

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J. R. R. Tolkien news and blogs - November 10, 2009

10 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit J. R. R. Tolkien news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• Brandon High's Jenna Dowd is graduating early to move to Uganda -- from Tampabay.com
• Dailymotion's Exclusive Launch of “The Hunt for Gollum” Gets over ... -- from EON
• Purdue Convocations announces 2009-10 season - Media Newswire -- from press release
• Conservative Bar Brawl: Mark Levin vs. Dreher, Friedersdorf, Frum ... -- from American Spectator
• Study says businesses can create clean energy jobs -- from The Associated Press
• Bob Blackham guests at Birmingham Science Fiction Group -- from Crows Nest
• Hoping to turn books into blockbusters -- from Los Angeles Times
• Top ten femme fatales and how Google threatens books -- from The Canberra Times
• Words to Remember -- from Smithsonian
• Best-sellers -- from News-Leader.com

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Arts Council urged to pay for Tolkien statue

19 May 2009 13:41:40 PDT

UK The Arts Council will be asked to come to the rescue of Birmingham's controversial JRR Tolkien statue after plans to raise money from fans of the author were derailed by the credit crunch. A scheme to auction off leaves to hang from the 20ft tree which ...

Original story at Birmingham Post .

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A (Strange) Tale of Two Cities

15 May 2009 15:40:33 PDT

The author himself is not a JRR Tolkien fan (he's criticized Tolkien's "Wagnerian pomposity") and finished only two Harry Potter books before he put the series aside ("I didn't massively enjoy them," he says). But he feels that fantastic tales are a ...

Original story at Wall Street Journal .

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Excellent "The Hunt for Gollum" Fan Film Debuts Online

03 May 2009 16:58:54 PDT

NY It is in no way affiliated with, or sponsored or approved, by Tolkien Enterprises, the heirs or estate of JRR Tolkien, Peter Jackson, New Line Cinema, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. or any of their repective affiliates or licensees. ...

Original story at Appscout .

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The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun by JRR Tolkien: review

02 May 2009 21:49:32 PDT

United Kingdom If his film version of The Lord of the Rings trilogy had not been so successful there is no way these two 'lays', probably written at Oxford in the Thirties, would have seen the light of day. This is no less than the 12th work by JRR Tolkien to be ...

Original story at Telegraph.co.uk .

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Summer Movie Review

01 May 2009 02:54:20 PDT

CA - Connie Ogle The Ugly Truth: In what has to be a fantasy greater than anything JRR Tolkien dreamed up, Katherine Heigl (27 Dresses) is a TV producer unable to find a man. Gerard Butler shows up as a cynic whose fate clearly is to relieve her of her singlehood. ...

Original story at California Chronicle .

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Tolkien Society Also Celebrates 10th Anniversary

30 Apr 2009 18:29:43 PDT

New Zealand Ian Collier of The Tolkien Society writes: I thought that you'd be interested in the news about this year's Middle-earth weekend (formerly the Tolkien Weekend) event at Sarehole Mill. Like TORN the event is celebrating its 10th anniversary so this one ...

Original story at TheOneRing.net .

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Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings' lost in translation

13 Feb 2009 03:40:00 PST

JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy is an epic tale about an evil ring that falls into the hands of a hobbit named Frodo Baggins (the hobbits are a fictional race of miniature people invented by the author). Aided by three other hobbits, ... The Lord of the Rings: Conquest Review PALGN

Original story at Peterborough Examiner .

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Fanfiction: A Torturous Predicament Called 'Entertainment' by Nieriel Raina

21 Nov 2008 19:09:55 PST

Disclaimer: If this fic doesn’t prove I am not Tolkien, I’m not sure what would. Written for the Middle-earth Express Prompt #84: Entertainment WARNING: This short story contains sexual innuendo and alludes to a male’s reaction to ...

Original story at Lord of the Rings Fanfiction .

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Fanfiction: Speak, Friend and Enter by Formegil

01 Nov 2008 09:20:30 PDT

Disclaimer: I don’t own anything J.R.R. Tolkien wrote. King Durin, Celebrimbor and Narvi are his characters, not mine. The story is set in ca. 750 Second Age. Speak, Friend and Enter Narvi was just taking his apron off after a long day ...

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Fanfiction: The Singsong Sindar by Formegil

01 Nov 2008 09:20:09 PDT

Disclaimer: I don’t own anything J.R.R. Tolkien wrote whatsoever. The members of the band are my only original creations. This fic is written as a response to the challenge ”A Salute to Jules”. It is very late in coming, but hey, ...

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Fanfiction: The Son of Curufin by Formegil

01 Nov 2008 09:19:36 PDT

Disclaimer: I do not own anything J.R.R. Tolkien wrote whatsoever. The characters in this story are his creations. Chapter 1: The Departure of Finrod The Man was haggard and his clothes were tattered, but he looked noble nonetheless as ...

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fanfic100: J. R. R. Tolkien, Eärendil. #037 - Sound, #083 - And

30 Oct 2008 19:43:42 PDT

Written by The Ultimate FanFic Challenge!
Title: News Fandom: J. R. R. Tolkien Characters: Eärendil, Finarfin Prompt: 083 - And Word Count: 249 Rating: G Summary: The first meeting between the King of the Noldor in Aman and the newly arrived messenger from Middle-earth. ...

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Site of the Week - TheOneRing.net

13 Oct 2008 15:09:50 PDT

Written by Carolyn Koo
Launched by Michael Regina, William Thomas, Erica Challis and Pirrotta in anticipation of The Lord of the Rings films (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King), the site's traffic reached a peak in early 2003, putting the site among the top 1,000 in the world. Ho...

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Turbine and Tolkien Sitting In A Tree [Licensing]

20 Feb 2008 10:20:16 PST

Written by Mike Fahey
WESTWOOD, MA - February 20, 2008 - Turbine, Inc. announced today that in the wake of the global success of The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™, named the 2007 PC Game of the Year*, it has reached an agreement with Tolkien Enterprises to extend it's license to develop Massively M...

Original story at Kotaku .

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Podcast: The Ring and I (Radio Lab)

31 Dec 2007 21:00:00 PST

Written by listenerservices@wnyc.org (Jad Abumrad & Robert Krulwich)
It might seem hyperbole to claim, as many Wagnerites do, that The Ring Cycle is "The Greatest Work of Art Ever." But the grandeur and power of this monumental work have permeated our culture from Star Wars to Bugs Bunny to J.R.R. Tolkien.

Original story at WNYC .

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Book Review: The Children of Hurin by JRR Tolkien

12 Jun 2007 13:40:23 PDT

Written by Asgard
The Children of Hurin is an assemblage of Tolkien's assorted writings, put together in novel format by son Christopher. The story was begun by JRR Tolkien in 1918, but never assembled as a complete novel. Christopher Tolkien has organized the work into novel format without altering his fa...

Original story at Blogcritics .

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Book Review: Tolkien 'novel' a tale of woe, but a great read

19 May 2007 20:45:47 PDT

In May 1973, I received a letter from one of my heroes, J.R.R. Tolkien. Like many another young fan, I had written to him begging to know when we could expect to see "The Silmarillion." To most readers at that time, this was just a title referred to in the appendices of "The Lord of the Rings." It could...

Original story at San Antonio Express .

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Opinion: Book 5/50

27 Apr 2007 20:35:11 PDT

As someone who cut my literary teeth on J. R. R. Tolkien, Michael Moorcock, Gene Wolfe, and Robert E. Howard, I don't like most of the stuff that lands in the sci-fi/fantasy ghetto at the local Books-A-Million. For one thing, I've noticed that the back covers of many fantasy novels claim that the...

Original story at 50 Book Challenge .

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Opinion: New Book By 'Lord Of The Rings' Author JRR Tolkien Released

17 Apr 2007 10:29:23 PDT

The Children of Hurin" by J. R. R. TolkienBook review by AP writer Bruce DeSilva(April 17, 2007) -- Six thousand years before the Fellowship of the Ring, long before anyone had even seen a Hobbit, the elves and men of Middle-earth quaked at the power of the dark lord...

Original story at Access Hollywood .

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J. R. R. Tolkien - best news, blogs, videos, photos and more - Boxxet

'Once Dead' is hot property for Supernatural Summer tour

Comment mentir à propos d'un livre de SF et de Fantasy

Invasion - Conjure War

Trinity Christian School graduates a special, small class

I'm related to JRR Tolkien

E-mail from Middle-earth

J. R. R. Tolkien news and blogs - November 10, 2009

Arts Council urged to pay for Tolkien statue

A (Strange) Tale of Two Cities

Excellent "The Hunt for Gollum" Fan Film Debuts Online

The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun by JRR Tolkien: review

Summer Movie Review

Tolkien Society Also Celebrates 10th Anniversary

Tolkien&#39;s &#39;Lord of the Rings&#39; lost in translation

Fanfiction: A Torturous Predicament Called &#39;Entertainment&#39; by Nieriel Raina

Fanfiction: Speak, Friend and Enter by Formegil

Fanfiction: The Singsong Sindar by Formegil

Fanfiction: The Son of Curufin by Formegil

fanfic100: J. R. R. Tolkien, Eärendil. #037 - Sound, #083 - And

Site of the Week - TheOneRing.net

Turbine and Tolkien Sitting In A Tree [Licensing]

Podcast: The Ring and I (Radio Lab)

Book Review: The Children of Hurin by JRR Tolkien

Book Review: Tolkien 'novel' a tale of woe, but a great read

Opinion: Book 5/50

Opinion: New Book By 'Lord Of The Rings' Author JRR Tolkien Released

Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings' lost in translation

Fanfiction: A Torturous Predicament Called 'Entertainment' by Nieriel Raina