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Lynn Maudlin
lynnmaudlin
Feb 2, 2008 12:04 am
I think I mentioned it before but finally they've got some details up at their website: <http://www.apu.edu/inklingsconference/> Tom Shippey is speaking...
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Oberhelman, D
davidoberhelman
Feb 2, 2008 8:13 pm
Just a reminder that nominations for books for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards and the Mythopoeic Scholarship Awards are due by Feb. 15, and volunteers to serve...
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Paul Meeter
littlemanpoet
Feb 3, 2008 8:07 pm
I've done a couple of searches on this site and haven't found anything on Dr. Michael Ward's book, "Planet Narnia". Have there been comments I missed? I took...
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Margaret Dean
margdean56
Feb 3, 2008 8:11 pm
... I've never even heard of the book, but it sounds interesting. Tell us about it! --Margaret Dean <margdean@...>...
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jef.murray
Feb 4, 2008 1:45 pm
Greetings! Happy Mardi Gras, and welcome to my newsletter for February, 2008! Please feel free to forward this to anyone you think would be interested in...
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Croft, Janet B.
jbcroft73019
Feb 4, 2008 2:27 pm
There was a link here a while back to a journal article by Ward that laid out the main premises of the book: "Narnia's Secret," Touchstone, December 2007....
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Paul Meeter
littlemanpoet
Feb 4, 2008 9:42 pm
Ward wrote his doctoral dissertation at St. Andrews University in Scotland, having graduated from Oxford and gotten his master's at Cambridge. He believes...
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David Emerson
emerdavid1
Feb 5, 2008 4:00 pm
... Did Orff *also* write "Planets" music, or did you mean the more well-known suite by Gustav Holst? emerdavid ________________________________________ ...
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David Bratman
dbratman1
Feb 5, 2008 5:07 pm
... 1) One needn't hunt down obscure Lewis poetry from the '30s to find him openly using the medieval astrological personifications of the planets. It's right...
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David Bratman
dbratman1
Feb 6, 2008 4:28 pm
... Congratulations. I hope you have a good time. I took a look at their website, and it rather seems to me as if my paper arguing that "Hobbit Names Ain't...
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Marcie
marciegeff
Feb 6, 2008 6:36 pm
At least three people from the Tolkien Forever Fellowship in Los Angeles are planning to attend Tom Shippey's lecture at APU, and some 6-8 people are planning...
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Diane Joy Baker
dijobak
Feb 7, 2008 3:49 am
I checked out the ALEP site; very pretty---and expensive. Though I live close to Lexington, and the room rate is not bad, the entry fee is a choker---though...
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Jef Murray
jef.murray
Feb 7, 2008 1:14 pm
David, I don't know...this event looks to be very informal and fun, and I expect your paper would be well received. Regarding costs, yes, you have to be...
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John D Rateliff
sacnoth32
Feb 7, 2008 10:35 pm
So, I've been going to the lecture series by Prof. Robin Stacey (J. R. R. Tolkien: The Story Teller's Story) being held on five consecutive Tuesday nights at...
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Croft, Janet B.
jbcroft73019
Feb 7, 2008 10:57 pm
On the second question about pacifists - there's a section in my book _War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien_ on the hawk/dove interpretations of Tolkien - see...
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Paul Meeter
littlemanpoet
Feb 8, 2008 1:26 am
Sorry, yes, it's Hulst, not Orff. I regularly get the two confused. I attended a lecture offered by Dr. Ward in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in mid-January in...
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Doug Kane
voronwe1
Feb 9, 2008 12:39 am
Last August, there was some talk here about the paper I presented at MythCon on my work tracing the creation of the published Silmarillion, which I called...
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Lynn Maudlin
lynnmaudlin
Feb 9, 2008 6:33 am
It was great to see you there, Marcie - Tom Shippey was fabulous, as you all knew he would be... {grin} == Lynn ==...
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David Bratman
dbratman1
Feb 10, 2008 9:13 pm
... This pings something in my memory - somewhere there's something about Tolkien and Williams either scheduling their lectures at the same time or not...
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Oberhelman, D
davidoberhelman
Feb 11, 2008 5:29 pm
Greetings again, This is one last reminder to send in your nominations for the Mythopoeic Fantasy and Scholarship Awards by the end of this week. Eligibility...
I attended Odyssey in summer of 2006. I'd highly recommend it. This year among the guest teachers are Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman, last year's Mythcon...
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Adam Smith
amsmith0903
Feb 11, 2008 10:27 pm
I just ran across an interesting bit of news. It appears that the Tolkien Estate has filed a $150 mil + dollar suit against New Line Cinema regarding unpaid...
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Sarah Beach
scribblerworks
Feb 11, 2008 10:34 pm
Interesting. Re the LotR films, as I understood it, the rights for them were off either the semi-pirate Ace editions (and hence, not formally due the Estate)...
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David Bratman
dbratman1
Feb 11, 2008 11:57 pm
I'm surprised that the Tolkien Estate (or Tolkien Trust) is owed any royalties from the Jackson films, as the rights had already been sold outright during...
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Adam Smith
amsmith0903
Feb 12, 2008 12:32 am
There was some confusion regarding the _Sir Gawain_. Thanks for clearing that up David. My own understanding (admittedly unresearched) was that the...
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WendellWag@...
wendell_wagner
Feb 12, 2008 11:51 am
Another news story: _http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/02/11/financial/f115544 S35.DTL&tsp=1_ ...
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William Cloud Hicklin
icelofangeln
Feb 12, 2008 1:49 pm
It's very straightforward, really: When JRRT sold the rights to United Artists in 1969 (the only sale of film rights) he received cash on the nail *and* a...
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David Bratman
dbratman1
Feb 12, 2008 3:19 pm
... I do not recall having ever read about this percentage before. Sources say that Tolkien sold the film rights outright, instead of selling an option (in...
