Here's a question (probably a simple one) for any of you: In the pronunciation guide (appendix E), Tolkien writes that the letter "F" "represents f, except at...
You need to register to read these online, but it's free and they've never sent me any spam. (More annoying are the ads with sound.) On fan and reader...
I wonder if the National Geographic researchers read Jonathan Himes's article on Tolkien's use of the Sampo (from the Kalevala) in the Silmarillion (printed in...
A local California newspaper review started out with "Good News! This movie doesn't suck!" and ended with "Damn--a whole year until the next installment!" Saw...
Thought I wd pass this along (haven't checked the site to verify though) ... Carthage College Religion 953 Fantasy and Allegory: MacDonald, Lewis and Tolkien -...
Greetings from Eldalamberon. This is Adam Christensen here and I wanted to let the readers of the Mythopoeic list know that Parma Eldalamberon 13 "The Alphabet...
PARMA ELDALAMBERON, Number 13, is at the printer and will be ready for shipment by January 3, 2002. Parma Eldalamberon 'The Book of Elven-tongues' is a journal...
All, As a little gift to the Tolkien discussion community, in honor of the release of the first movie of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, I offer "Ithilien," an...
The URL below is to what I consider one of the best recent articles on The Lord of the Rings. When he talked with me, it was clear that Mr. Bearman had done...
Ok, we finally saw it last night. The Quick Review - Big Harold and I loved it. We knew it wasn't an exact story telling of Tolkien, but it felt familiar, and...
The link below, which you're probably all already familiar with, takes you to a pastiche of reviews on the film Ted (who hasn't seen it yet) PS: Bill Welden...
With 6,930 votes in, visitors to Internet Movie Database (imdb.com) are rating The Fellowship of the Ring to be the #1 movie of all time. Their system...
LoTR the Movie got four nominations: Best Drama Best Director Best Original Score Best Original Song ("May It Be") Also, first estimates are $17.1 million in...
In a message dated 12/20/2001 4:03:47 PM Central Standard Time, ... The Russian for "ya" (a letter of the cyrillic alphabet and also the word for "I") looks...
Just a reminder: The Mythsoc list archives are public, meaning that anyone can read your post. Also, we don't have a minimum age requirement; anyone with an ...
I've just returned from seeing the movie, and the following are my initial thoughts. NOTE: I'm cross-posting this to several mailing-lists and newsgroups, so ...
Various further thoughts, inspired by various posts: A lot of comments on the quality of the acting. Somehow this doesn't matter much to me. Some of the...
I haven't seen anyone mention seeing Bill Welden and Tom Shippey being acknowledged at the end of the credits. Watch for that -- if you can with the entire...
Yes, Tolkien himself had a preternatural vision of the film we saw today! I've just read through the Zimmerman letter (no. 210), the one in which Tolkien...
Can anyone help with a trivial question? There's one thing I've never been quite clear about in LOTR which is the scene just before Gandalf returns and reveals...
I asked this on a non-Tolkien board - I knew YOU people would get it. 4H 1E 1D 2M 1W But this one, I'm embarrassed to say, stumped me and perhaps would...
There are a number of reviews and other articles currently up at the San Jose Mercury News's web site at http://www.bayarea.com/entertainment/ Of particular...
Since I still have to come up with something original every month while I work on a new book project, I decided to review the movie and poke my fellow purists...
Visuals and props: A I take back (almost) everything I said about the matte shots looking fake in photos. Given what was shown, there was just about nothing...
