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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2018 23:48:34 GMT -5
Interesting story about Ralph Bakshi and his making of the animated LOTR feature at The Hollywood Reporter. -M |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 17, 2018 10:17:00 GMT -5
Interesting story about Ralph Bakshi and his making of the animated LOTR feature at The Hollywood Reporter. -M Wow! Extremely cool! I had no idea that the rotoscoped battle of Helm’s Deep had involved so many people and an actual castle... I really thought it was a dozen guys in capes in a studio. The film itself was not all it could have been, but it had beautiful images... and it is those movie stills (which I saw in the magazine Fantastic Films, if memory serves) that drew me to Tolkien. Good memories. Thanks, mrp! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2018 17:59:04 GMT -5
Added one more the the Fellowship...Aragorn has been acquired...   -M |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2018 14:56:52 GMT -5
BBC Drama Tolkien in Love about a young John Ronald Ruel is available worldwide streaming for free now... article-M |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2019 15:20:20 GMT -5
Happy Anniversary of Tolkien's Birth Day! Tolkien was born on this day in 1892.  -M |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2019 23:39:58 GMT -5
My wife showed this to me today, as it appeared in Walt Simonson's facebook feed...  Walt's page-M |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2019 23:46:37 GMT -5
Walt's page also shared a link to this article on Open Culture bout Tolkien's art: 110 Drawings and Paintings by J.R.R. Tolkien: Of Middle-Earth and Beyond A couple of the pieces featured...   -M |
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Post by Rob Allen on Jan 4, 2019 18:10:01 GMT -5
There's an event next weekend that I plan to catch part of: www.mcmenamins.com/events/197979-happy-birthday-jrr-tolkienSaturday, January 12, 2019 Happy Birthday, J.R.R. Tolkien! Kennedy School, 5736 N.E. 33rd Ave., Portland, OR, 97211 11 a.m. 'til late Free All ages welcome Please bring a can of food to donate to the Oregon Food Bank About Happy Birthday, J.R.R. Tolkien! Elves, wizards, orcs and all others are invited to join in this all-day celebration of J.R.R. Tolkien, one of the 20th Century’s most influential authors. We'll have live music, The Lord of the Rings on the big screen, Willamette Radio Workshop performing live, a costume contest, board games, Hobbit-inspired food specials and more! Schedule: Tolkien and Lord of the Rings board games with Joshua Dunham and Friends • in the Parsons Room • 11 am - 3 pm Willamette Radio Workshop Live radio, performing "Hobbit's Greatest Hits" • in the Gym • 3 pm & 5 pm Costume Contest • in the Gym • 4 pm Garcia Birthday Band • in the Gym • 7 - 10 pm Kennedy Theater: Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring • 11 am Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers • 2:49 pm Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King • 6:45 pm |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2019 14:24:23 GMT -5
I give you...Leonard Nimoy and the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins... No, no, no don't thank me, no need to.  -M |
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Post by Confessor on Jan 11, 2019 19:46:51 GMT -5
I give you...Leonard Nimoy and the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins... No, no, no don't thank me, no need to. Tell me you haven't just heard this recently, @mrp? I thought every self-respecting sci-fi and fantasy nerd knew about this. It was Nimoy and his record company's attempt to cash in on the Middle-Earth craze among college students in the late '60s. In a similar vein, I give you folk-rock band The Magic Ring with "Frodo Lives"... The Hobbits, with their 1967 song "Down In Middle-Earth"... A band named Thorinshield (derived from Thorin Oakenshield, of course) with their 1968 song "Lonely Mountain Again", named after the home of Smaug, of course... And the non-Tolkien related song "Can You Travel In The Dark Alone" by a late 60s psychedelic band called Gandalf... |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jan 11, 2019 21:05:44 GMT -5
I give you...Leonard Nimoy and the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins... No, no, no don't thank me, no need to. Tell me you haven't just heard this recently, @mrp ? I thought every self-respecting sci-fi and fantasy nerd knew about this. It was Nimoy and his record company's attempt to cash in on the Middle-Earth craze among college students in the late '60s. In a similar vein, I give you folk-rock band The Magic Ring with "Frodo Lives"... The Hobbits, with their 1967 song "Down In Middle-Earth"... A band named Thorinshield (derived from Thorin Oakenshield, of course) with their 1968 song "Lonely Mountain Again", named after the home of Smaug, of course... And the non-Tolkien related song "Can You Travel In The Dark Alone" by a late 60s psychedelic band called Gandalf... I raise you with Blind Guardian: |
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Post by Confessor on Jan 11, 2019 21:18:36 GMT -5
Tell me you haven't just heard this recently, @mrp ? I thought every self-respecting sci-fi and fantasy nerd knew about this. It was Nimoy and his record company's attempt to cash in on the Middle-Earth craze among college students in the late '60s. In a similar vein, I give you folk-rock band The Magic Ring with "Frodo Lives"... The Hobbits, with their 1967 song "Down In Middle-Earth"... A band named Thorinshield (derived from Thorin Oakenshield, of course) with their 1968 song "Lonely Mountain Again", named after the home of Smaug, of course... And the non-Tolkien related song "Can You Travel In The Dark Alone" by a late 60s psychedelic band called Gandalf... I raise you with Blind Guardian: Jesus, that's terrible. For my money, Bo Hansson's early 70s Music Inspired by the Lord of the Rings is really the only music directly related to Tolkien's Legendarium that I ever listen to purely for pleasure. I think I posted about this album some pages back, but here's the track "The Old Forest & Tom Bombadil" as a taste... |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2019 22:46:05 GMT -5
Confessor I had heard Nimoy's song long, long ago and had mostly (intentionally) forgotten about it until I stumbled across a mention of it earlier this week and had it stuck in my head for a few days. -M
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Post by Confessor on Jan 12, 2019 0:28:59 GMT -5
Confessor I had heard Nimoy's song long, long ago and had mostly (intentionally) forgotten about it until I stumbled across a mention of it earlier this week and had it stuck in my head for a few days. -M That's understandable: both Nimoy and William Shatner's short-lived musical careers in the late 60s are best forgotten. |
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Post by berkley on Jan 12, 2019 2:48:47 GMT -5
I only sampled a few of those musical offerings so far but some of them don't sound bad in themselves - it's just that musically, none of them sound like they have anything much to do with Tolkien's Middle-Earth, especially those bubblegum pop songs, which again, I don't mind at all, as bubblegum pop songs.
I like the Hansson album, which I had on vinyl back in the 70s. And I love Zeppelin's Battle of Evermore.
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