Greetings! Welcome to my newsletter for November, 2008! Please feel free to forward this to anyone you think would be interested in keeping up with me. To...
I started a new web site over the summer called "Journey to the Sea" [http://journeytothesea.com/], which I describe as "an online myth magazine." It contains...
Yesterday I saw the new Tolkien hardcover for sale, TALES FROM THE PERILOUS REALMS. In addition to a new introduction by Tom Shippey (which at last replaces...
I guess we'll have to settle for this volume if we wanted to replace _Tree and Leaf_. At least as much as it can if it doesn't include "Mythopoeia". I really...
I was doing some research in respect of Owen and Sassoon when I happened upon the following essay from the April 1917 edition of The Hydra - a magazine...
I have not seen this book yet on my local store shelves, but I did see the audio edition (from Recorded Books LLC/BBC Audiobooks America) at one of the many...
Hi Matt Actually, the audiobook called "TALES FROM THE PERILOUS REALM", which I have on two cassettes, is entirely distinct from the new Alan Lee illustrated...
Michael, If you want to read a truly uncanny precursor of Tolkien, I suggest "The Far Islands" by John Buchan. It's in Doug Anderson's _Tales Before Tolkien_....
If anyone wanted a copy of Diana Glyer's _The Company They Keep_, her portrait of the Inklings as a writer's group, but was scared off by the hardcover price:...
My apologies for those of you who will get this as a stand-alone email but here's the sort-of kind-of monthly news blurb from the Land of All Things Mythopoeic...
oh that's perfect! Obviously it's on EVERYONE's mind because I included it in the MythSoc news piece just posted (!!) - goes off humming "Synchronicity"... --...
Great news about Diana & David's book. Hope that the trade paperback edition keeps it in print for a good long time and also disseminates its core thesis more...
The various announcements here reminded me of another new arrival that folks here might be interested in. The Barfield Estate has just released two books, one...
Thank you David, I have that very title on my shelf at the moment. I'll make a point of reading that tale. Much appreciated, Michael ... From: David Bratman ...
Another strong parallel, and possible direct inspiration, for Sam's seeing the Star over Mordor comes in Charlie Chaplin's THE GREAT DICTATOR [1940], which...
... John, I'm curious to know whether you are basing your supposition that this scene in that classic film might have been a direct inspiration for Tolkien's...
Hi John! Thanks for clarifying this for me! Once you mentioned them, and I took another look at it, the details seem to jump right off the packageing at me....
I have a couple of nitpicks with this. First, what do we know about the composition of the section of The Lord of the Rings where Sam sees the star over ...
... I don't have any external evidence that Tolkien ever saw the Chaplin film. It's definitely possible, and I'd argue it's v. probable, given the similarity...
Hi Matt I'm not overly fond of the Rob Inglis performance, which I find a little flat, but since it's the only unabridged recording of LotR there is, I'm...
In a funny little piece of self-foot-shooting, I failed to post this to the list yesterday: Not to answer for John, but don't you think that's a fairly human ...
... I do think it is a fairly human response. At the same time, the scene in the film as described by John has a remarkably similar feel to the scene in LOTR....
CIL... -mwirkk ... From: John D Rateliff; Sent: Wed, Nov 12, 2008 9:26 PM ... [mwirkk] I have to agree for the most part, with respect to LotR. I thought Rob...
Two Alan Lee illustrated editions of LOTR, a 3-volume and a 1-volume, are advertised in the latest discount book catalog of Edward R. Hamilton, and also on...
... << I thought the blurbs were interesting. The 3-volume blurb reads, "The Lord of the Rings is often erroneously called a trilogy, when in fact it is a...
Hi, Richard, ... As you know, I've been following your blog for some time now (in Polish, as best I can :). I think it's a great new feature to have news...
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