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Elvish Is Studied Here - LaTimes.com
March 24, 2004 - "For 'Lord of the Rings' pilgrims, the journey to Middle-earth ends in Milwaukee, the home of many of J.R.R. Tolkien's best-loved works..." |
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Meeting that gave world two masterpieces of imagination - Scotsman.com
March 10, 2004 - "They were two of the greatest works of imaginative fiction of the 20th century, selling more than 160 million copies worldwide and touching innumerable people with their epic tales of heroism, hope and the ultimate triumph of good over evil... But imagine a world in which The Lord of the Rings and the Chronicles of Narnia didn't exist; where children had never encountered the Snow Queen of Narnia or read the adventures of Gandalf, Frodo and Sam; where Peter Jackson was just another jobbing director looking for his big break and the film industry was significantly poorer..." |
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Tolkien Authority To Speak - Tom Shippey
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NewsWire: Lord of the Internet - The name is handed over.
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Middle-earth Is God's Country - J.R.R. Tolkien's deplorable cultus should go to church
December 24, 2003 - We know what J.R.R. Tolkien thought of his most over-the-top admirers: head-bangers and hippies with their FRODO LIVES buttons; Italian neo-Fascists huddled at "Camp Hobbit"; proto-Trekkies in velvet capes. The Lord of the Rings author famously dismissed this disparate lot as "my deplorable cultus." But what do his millions of fans, eccentric or not, know about the guiding force in Tolkien's own life: the Catholic faith that informed everything he wrote? |
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Press Release: The Real Middle-earth: An hour long documentary - www.therealmiddleearth.com
December 18, 2003 - "The Real Middle-Earth is a brand new documentary that uncovers the real places that inspired The Lord of the Rings. Sir Ian Holm (Fellowship of the Ring, Alien, The Borrowers) narrates a fascinating exploration into a world that, although imaginary, seems so solid we pore over its maps and contemplate journeys made from one place to another..." |
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Tolkien relative's Kingly role - "It was a real spur-of-the-moment thing"
December 17, 2003 - Keep your eyes peeled during The Return of the King. If you do, you may just catch a living, breathing Tolkien amongst the action. Royd Tolkien, the author's 34-year-old great-grandson, plays a Gondorian ranger preparing the defences of the ruined city of Osgiliath, braced for an assault by the evil lord Sauron's armies of orcs. |
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A writer for every era and all ages - J. R. R. Tolkien
December 16, 2003 - TOLKIEN is one of the great figures, not just of the fantasy genre, but of 20th century literature. The Lord of the Rings won the BBC's Big Read contest at the weekend and in the Waterstone's Books of the Century poll in 1997, his epic masterpiece gained many more votes than any other title. |
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NewsWire: Magic was born in Brum - Richard and Tom Greenwood
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Royd Tolkien: A Gondorian Ranger? - Tolkien's great-grandson in Wellington for film premiere
December 1, 2003 - Once upon a time a little boy was given a book called The Hobbit. Nothing unusual in that: the book, first published in 1937, has sold more than 70 million copies. But the difference between this 9-year-old and millions of Hobbit fans around the world was that the name on the cover was the same as his own. The author, J.R.R. Tolkien, was his great-grandfather, creator of The Lord of the Rings. |