Hi Mythcon Attendees: For many it will be useful to approach the Bay area (via auto) from the routes that enter Berkeley from the I-5. That will avoid the...
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David Bratman
dbratman1
May 2, 2007 5:43 am
... Yes, I should have mentioned that public transit is not affected by this at all, except insofar as it may be more crowded. ... Whether coming from I-5...
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Edith.Crowe@...
ecrowews
May 2, 2007 8:45 pm
A request via the Tolkien Society: We have had a request from student in Brazil who wants to write on Tolkien's biography for her final essay. Being in Brazil...
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lynnmaudlin
May 2, 2007 8:57 pm
wow! what a lot you're going to discuss! It sounds like a FABULOUS space but I wonder if the Inklings would really feel "at home" anyplace that didn't include...
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lynnmaudlin
May 2, 2007 9:03 pm
Do you remember the first Wheaton Mythcon and we essentially demanded the committee arrange to pick up the folks flying in?! wow, times have changed (and we've...
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David Bratman
dbratman1
May 2, 2007 10:17 pm
"I =TOLD= you that the East Road faded out long before it got to the River Running, but did you listen to me? No, you had to barge straight through, and now...
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Cathy Akers-Jordan
mizmelisande
May 4, 2007 2:41 pm
Wayne and Christina, I just received your Tolkien Companion and Guide as a birthday present. Wow! Even though I've only peekd at the two volumes, I'm very ...
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David Bratman
dbratman1
May 5, 2007 2:28 pm
Mike Foster gave a good reply when asked how he, as a teacher of Tolkien studies, responds when student papers include facts that are only true of the Jackson...
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John D Rateliff
sacnoth32
May 5, 2007 7:01 pm
The idea that Sauron is a disembodied eye is certainly a misperception, but it doesn't originate with Jackson. I remember refuting this point in discussions...
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Larry Swain
theswain
May 5, 2007 7:08 pm
Not that I count as a Tolkien Studies scholar, but I do this as well, though surprisingly this semester there were only 2 students out of 20 who had seen any...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
May 5, 2007 7:43 pm
... I got my Mythlore yesterday, and read this article right away. I was a bit disappointed, because from the title I expected it to be an essay on how...
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David Bratman
dbratman1
May 6, 2007 4:20 am
... That's interesting, but I'm not sure if Foster meant that Sauron was physically only an eye. Same edition, near the end of the entry for Sauron, reads: ...
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David Bratman
dbratman1
May 6, 2007 4:44 am
I intended to add that the real problem with the article I cited is not so much that the author mistook Sauron's Eye for his whole being - better scholars have...
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Merlin DeTardo
not_thou
May 6, 2007 5:05 am
... he wear it? Someone who's seen the movies more than once could explain this better than me: I think somewhere early in the films, a character (Saruman?) ...
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Oberhelman, D
davidoberhelman
May 6, 2007 12:00 pm
Yes, apparently the film originally had a sequence in which a humanoid Sauron, which some dubbed "Annatar" (even though that fair form was destroyed, but...
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Merlin DeTardo
not_thou
May 6, 2007 6:31 pm
... contrasting the use of the visual gaze of evil watchers in Tolkien and Jackson... But on p. 63, when she's still discussing the book, she writes, "In his...
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Richard Derdzinski
galadhorn
May 6, 2007 11:20 pm
At our new Polish Tolkienian service, Elendilion (http://czytaj.elendili.pl) we plan to publish the information about the activity of the Tolkienists from...
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Katie Glick
Violet2393
May 7, 2007 2:01 am
Hi you guys, Yo may have gotten an e-mail from me with the subject "All the cool kids are doing it." Please ignore it. This website sent out an e-mail to...
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WendellWag@...
wendell_wagner
May 7, 2007 4:15 am
Can someone refer me to whoever is running the Society auction this year at Mythcon? As usual, I already have some things to donate to the auction which I...
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David Bratman
dbratman1
May 7, 2007 5:41 am
Anything to be mailed to Mythcon beforehand should be sent to the registration address (on the websit)e. Drop the registrar an e-mail first (also on the...
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Bonnie Callahan
bgcmeowrrrrr
May 7, 2007 7:36 am
I never saw Sauron as being an "EYE", in the way CBS wasn't an "Eye". That was just his LOGO. (I still have a "gate pass" from when I worked for CBS in '70s as...
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Cristina A. Montes
camontes_dra...
May 7, 2007 10:37 am
... new one ... body in ... Isildur ... if he'd ... Eye even ... meant ... absurd. That ... it's one ... I had no problems with visually representing Sauron...
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Cristina A. Montes
camontes_dra...
May 7, 2007 10:58 am
... intend. I think what David referred to was a list of misconceptions that originate from the movie. I am in favor of such a list, not for the purpose of...
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Cristina A. Montes
camontes_dra...
May 7, 2007 11:06 am
... indeed it ... the book ... was too ... I wondered about this, too. The only hint of reluctance I detected in the books were his uneasiness before entering...
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Croft, Janet B.
jbcroft73019
May 7, 2007 2:06 pm
I'm working up a reply, but off the record, this is one of the papers Ted accepted, so I had to publish it. "Disembodied state" was probably not the best...
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Croft, Janet B.
jbcroft73019
May 7, 2007 2:10 pm
...for sending a reply to David Bratman to the group. Need coffee... Janet Brennan Croft Head of Access Services University of Oklahoma Libraries Bizzell 104NW...
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David Emerson
emerdavid1
May 7, 2007 3:00 pm
... And what was the line from the old filk song? "[something about Sauron being defeated] [and Mordor] ... was a mess But he had a scheme, I fear To exploit...
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jef.murray
May 7, 2007 3:06 pm
Greetings! A blessed and happy month of Our Lady to you all! And welcome to my newsletter for May, 2007. Please feel free to forward this to anyone you think...
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Jason Fisher
visualweasel
May 7, 2007 3:36 pm
... We also have Tolkien's own sketch for the cover of The Return of the King, in which he seems to depict Sauron in humanoid form. This may or may not be...
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Croft, Janet B.
jbcroft73019
May 7, 2007 3:52 pm
Okay, I admit to a bit of sloppy editing there! "Disembodied state" was probably not the most perfect and accurate turn of phrase for what I feel the author...
