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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2019 19:31:28 GMT -5
 somewhat relevant to previous discussions of the Silmarillion here -M |
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Post by Confessor on Nov 18, 2019 22:28:01 GMT -5
Pauline Baynes' 1969 illustrated map of Middle-earth, just because it's a thing of absolute beauty...  |
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Post by berkley on Nov 18, 2019 22:42:34 GMT -5
Out of curiosity after hearing a radio commercial extolling podcasts and you can find a podcast on any subject, I googled Tolkien podcasts and got a list of about 30 or so. Has anyone checked out any Tolkien podcasts? Any recommendations? Any to stay away from? -M Missed this earlier. Haven't tried any and personally I probably wouldn't get into something like this until I re-read the books, which I do plan to do one of these days but most likely not for a couple years yet.
In general, I've enjoyed listening to a few podcasts here and there, and I like the format but the downside is that they are so time-consuming - most of the ones I've tried are 1.5 - 2.5 hours long. Of course you don't have to listen to the whole thing in one shot, but still.
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Post by berkley on Nov 18, 2019 22:45:38 GMT -5
First time I've seen that colour illustrated map - where did it first appear, in a new edition of the trilogy, or in an art book or something?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2019 23:01:12 GMT -5
First time I've seen that colour illustrated map - where did it first appear, in a new edition of the trilogy, or in an art book or something? I'm curious to the source of it as well (I was going to try to awaken my dormant google fu skills to find if but since someone already asked, I'll wait and see if the answer is provided). -M |
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Post by Confessor on Nov 18, 2019 23:06:04 GMT -5
First time I've seen that colour illustrated map - where did it first appear, in a new edition of the trilogy, or in an art book or something? It was made available as a poster in 1970 to cash in on the surge of interest in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings among college students and the Hippie counter-culture. It was an officially sanctioned release though, and J.R.R. Tolkien himself provided Baynes with some new place names and corrected a few errors that were on his original 1954 map. The image I posted above isn't actually the whole poster; it also has some rather attractive header and footer illustrations, featuring characters from the LOTRs...  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2019 23:20:39 GMT -5
First time I've seen that colour illustrated map - where did it first appear, in a new edition of the trilogy, or in an art book or something? It was made available as a poster in 1970 to cash in on the surge of interest in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings among college students and the Hippie counter-culture. It was an officially sanctioned release though, and J.R.R. Tolkien himself provided Baynes with some new place names and corrected a few errors that were on his original 1954 map. The image I posted above isn't actually the whole poster; it also has some rather attractive header and footer illustrations, featuring characters from the LOTRs... Hmm, I was thinking I would love to find a print of that map when you first posted it; now I know it was a poster, I think I have a new grail to search for... -M |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2019 23:23:50 GMT -5
ok so did a little googling. Looks like Miss Baynes also did a map of Narnia...  and a different Tolkien map for There and Back Again...  -M |
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Post by Confessor on Nov 18, 2019 23:27:43 GMT -5
Hmm, I was thinking I would love to find a print of that map when you first posted it; now I know it was a poster, I think I have a new grail to search for... Ha! Yeah, a 1970 1st printing has long been on my wants list.  ok so did a little googling. Looks like Miss Baynes also did a map of Narnia... and a different Tolkien map for There and Back Again... Wow! Never seen either of those before. Nice finds, sir! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2019 23:30:35 GMT -5
Hmm, I was thinking I would love to find a print of that map when you first posted it; now I know it was a poster, I think I have a new grail to search for... Ha! Yeah, a 1970 1st printing has long been on my wants list. My google search turned up one for sale but the asking price was $275, which is probably more than I can justify right now (especially since I spent the day car shopping and will soon have a car payment for the first time in 5 years). -M |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2019 23:32:38 GMT -5
]Wow! Never seen either of those before. Nice finds, sir! They were on Miss Baynes website which is located here] -M |
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Post by berkley on Nov 19, 2019 0:53:27 GMT -5
The top and bottom illustrations of the Baynes map/poster also appear on the covers of the "Authorized Canadian Edition" of LoTR that I read in January 1976:   |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2019 1:05:05 GMT -5
Out of curiosity after hearing a radio commercial extolling podcasts and you can find a podcast on any subject, I googled Tolkien podcasts and got a list of about 30 or so. Has anyone checked out any Tolkien podcasts? Any recommendations? Any to stay away from? -M I can't personally speak to the content of "An Unexpected Podcast: Talkin’ Tolkien", but I have listened and enjoyed the hosts other two podcasts (one on Game of Thrones and one on Star Wars). I'm down a big Star Wars podcast hole currently, so post-TROS, I may try and get back into some Tolkien reading and pods in prep for the forthcoming TV show. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2019 20:03:18 GMT -5
Amazon officially renews "Lord of the Rings" tv series for a 2nd season. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2019 22:52:44 GMT -5
Amazon officially renews "Lord of the Rings" tv series for a 2nd season. but the result will be a delay in production as they go on hiatus after filming the first 2 episodes of season 1 to break down/plot and write season 2. -M |
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