If you want to know what the place actually looks like, or was going to look like, its website is <http://www.bendshire.com/> The words "twee" and "cutesy" do...
Ow ow ow! That should have had a “not safe” warning or something. It’s the worst excesses of Jackson (and I say this as someone who rather liked the Bag...
John: Thanks so much for the information in the books. I have met Bob Blackham and enjoyed his first book. I attended Aston so look forward to reading the...
According to Lynn Forest-Hill, the release date on the Cambridge Scholars Publishing Website for The Mirror Crack'd volume is a bit optimistic. She told me in...
Are there any other authors coming to Mythcon other than the ones I list below? I've made this list by going through the membership list in the progress ...
O.K., the list so far, using information given to me off-list. A couple of these people aren't listed as being Mythcon members in the progress report. ...
We've just had the sad news that Pauline Baynes, the esteemed artist, illustrator of Tolkien's Farmer Giles of Ham, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other...
The Tolkien (and Lewis) world will miss Pauline Baynes. Nothing's more pleasing to read than Tolkien's delight at first seeing her illustrations for _Farmer...
... This is a very sad loss indeed. We are all diminished by her passing. David Emerson ________________________________________ PeoplePC Online A better way...
For those who may be interested, I've just finished new updates, and redesign, to most of my and Christina's web pages giving addenda and corrigenda to our...
Thanks to Jason, Merlin, Joe, & Romauld for the additional information. I'll definitely keep an eye out for the Dimitri Fimi book (although $85 is a pretty...
... << Here's another I found out about yesterday that was apparently published a few months ago without my hearing anything about it at the time: TOLKIEN'S...
Hi, I am new in the list. My name is Jose Manuel Ferrandez, and I write from Spain. I have to inform you that I am a member of the Spanish Tolkien Society and...
Hi, Jose Manuel. I am from Spain too. It's nice to "see" someone else from my country here too. There are a lot of Tolkien scholars in Spain, and I think that...
I read this book a few weeks ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. Some very nice insight into Tolkiens time in Gedling and with his aunt and some nice pictures that...
I suspect the 1867 date is just a typo, since we know from one of Tolkien's letters* that Fr. Francis, his foster-father, was the same age of JRRT's real...
Excessively Thomas Kincaidian, as Janet said-- I don't mind "themed" developments and there could be good stuff like this, but everybody was looking to make...
Oh God bless her-- this must be especially said for you and Christina, Wayne, as I know the two of you had a relationship with her. Thank you for letting us...
Does anyone remember the name of the Spanish woman who came to a couple of Mythcons in the late 1990's and early 2000's? Short, dark-haired, in her early...
Mole, even! (yum) I love Spain despite the fact that I was abandoned in Barcelona - it's a fabulous city! Never been to Madrid... I'm very glad to see...
I think you're right, David, although I couldn't have pulled the name up without digging out the Mythcon 29 (Lewiscon) registration data... what a lovely mind...
There is a passage in Appendix B, Return of the King, in the paragraph right after the March 3019 chronology that has me puzzled: "They (the Elves of Lorien)...
Greetings! Welcome to my newsletter for August, 2008! Please feel free to forward this to anyone you think would be interested in keeping up with me. To ...
Lisa and I are planning on taking the 7pm or 9pm Metro North train from Grand Central to Waterbury Thursday evening, and take a cab from there to Connecticut...
Hi Steve Sorry for the delay in responding; I've been away and just got back. I think most of the other regular posters are at Mythcon this weekend. I...