Hi all, I have worked a plan with Tom to have a table in the dealer room for Saturday and Sunday. I'm not sure how much space I will end up with quite yet,...
Greetings! The Mythopoeic Press is very pleased to announce the publication of its newest volume of criticism Past Watchful Dragons: Fantasy and Faith in the...
The schedule for Mythcon 38 (August 3-6 in Berkeley) is now available online at <http://mythsoc.org/mythcon38schedule.html>. The HTML of the time schedule...
Many of you on this list are subscribers to Mythlore, Mythprint, or Mythic Circle, and probably other small journals like Beyond Bree, CSL, or Seven. I'd like...
... Yes, I'm still here, and yes, there's an sff.net, otherwise I wouldn't have received this message! :-) Joan Still friendly neighborhood Mythsoc list...
<Granada Media International (the English company that owns the animated film of THE LAST UNICORN) has sold more than a million copies on DVD and videotape...
In a message dated 7/20/2007 10:48:23 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, tolkiensurvey@... writes: Wendell, you ought to either revise or delete this passage in...
I was surfing Wikipedia today when I came across the following statement. It's in the entry for "eucatastrophe". Usually the people who writes the entries...
Yesterday I ordered a couple of copies of the "new" The Last Unicorn DVD from Conlan Press, and got the following in reply. It's a bit sad, and, I'm beginning...
I'm still worrying about Anthony Boucher's references to Groznia as a country, which I wrote about earlier. It is a fictional Balkan country, and one speaker...
London's Raindance Film Festival Co-Presents "Huldufolk 102" - NEW YORK PREMIERE! Q&A w/director Nisha Inalsingh · Iceland · 2006 · 74 min. · Documentary ...
I want to thank Wendell, Alexei, Jason, and Mark Hooker for taking time to comment on the semi-Slavic passage I sent. I've got enough for a footnote,and I...
I find a listing for _From Hobbits to Hollywood: Essays on Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings"_, ed. Ernest Mathijs and Murray Pomerance. New York and ...
Here's an article from _The Chronicle of Higher Education_ on Tolkien's importance to modern medieval studies: _http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i44/44a00801.htm_...
Are there any writers who will be guests at Mythcon besides the people mentioned in Progress Report 2? I ask because I would like to know what books I should...
Hello, I hope this finds the list well. I wondered if Tolkien ever had occasion to visit Northern Ireland and if so is it documented anywhere. I know he...
Thank you all very much for the quick response - I did trawl the letters, but not well enough. This will help me better formulate a supposition on a short...
... Yes, and probably nothing more than marketing. To try to point to The Worm Ouroboros as a genuine *source* for The Lord of the Rings and The Children of...
Am I the only one who got this message? It's an interesting marketing campaign, and Eddison's WORM certainly qualifies, but I wonder what else they'll include...
King's reflections on endings: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20044682,00.html ************************************** David D. Oberhelman Associate Professor ...
Greetings! And welcome to my newsletter for July, 2007. Please feel free to forward this to anyone you think would be interested in keeping up with me! To...
In today's column by Michael Gerson (a political columnist syndicated to many newspapers), he talks about sub-creation and attributes the term to Tolkien: ...
There are quite mysterious data which deserve one moment of reflexion about dwarves and spiders you've all found in the Hobbit ... In History of the Hobbit,...
In the <i>Encyclopedia of Fantasy</i>, there is a reference to Rossetti's poem "Sudden Light" in the entry for "Wood Between Two Worlds." I've read the poem,...
See http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon38progress02.html for the online version of the 2nd Mythcon 38 Progress Report. If you've registered as a member, you'll get...
Just saw a piece on the BBC website that the first book in Pullman's HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy has just been named the best children's book of the last...
In his review of Scull and Hammond's The J.R.R Tolkien Companion and Guide in the latest issue of Mythprint David Bratman notes the inconvenient absence of...
