Author: morwenna

  • Return of the King wins two Grammy Awards

    At the recent 47th Grammy Awards, Howard Shore’s score for Return of the King won the award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or other Visual Media. Into the West (by Annie Lennox, Howard Shore & Fran Walsh) won the award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or…

  • Tolkien – the UK’s most borrowed classic author in 2004

    The Public Lending Right organisation have published their top ten lists of the most borrowed authors and titles in the UK in 2004. Whilst Tolkien does not make either of these lists his Lord of the Rings books did make him the most borrowed classic author. You can read the full story at independent.co.uk.

  • Third annual Tolkien lecture

    The third annual Tolkien lecture will take place on 28th April at The Michael Tippett Centre, Bath Spa University College, Bath, UK. Dwight Longenecker will speak about ‘The Journey of the Spiritual Hero – using JRR Tolkien for personal and spiritual growth’ and the talk will be illustrated with clips from the LotR movies. There…

  • LotR trading card game – Black Rider

    The latest articles about Decipher’s new expansion set, Black Rider are entitled Nobody Tosses a Durin and Delving Too Deeply. New card previews can be viewed here.

  • Tolkien lecture

    On 22nd April, at California State University, San Marcos, Jane Chance, Professor of English at Rice University, will present a lecture onTolkien and the Other: Gender and Race in Middle-Earth. There are further details at csusm.edu.

  • LotR trading card game – Black Rider

    The latest article at Decipher is entitled Nobody Tosses a Durin . You can view previews of some of the new Black Rider cards, including Sauron’s Gaze and Confronting the Eye, here.

  • Middle-earth artwork

    In this interview at The Alien Online Gary Russell talks about his latest book, The Art of Lord of the Rings, a collection of the best artwork from the three LotR movies.

  • Win a statue of Merry

    Enter the prize giveaway at sideshowtoy.com for a chance to win a polystone statue of Merry. The closing date is 11th February and you have to be a newsletter subscriber to enter.

  • The return of the costumes

    13th Annual Art of Motion Picture Costume Design Exhibition opens tomorrow, 31st January, in Los Angeles at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising galleries. The exhibition will feature costumes from Return of the King. There are further details at downtownnews.com and fashionmuseum.org. The exhibition closes on 23rd April 2005.

  • Ringers: Lord of the Fans

    This article at TheStar.com reviews Ringers: Lord of the Fans, a film documentary about Tolkien fans, directed by Carlene Cordova and produced by Cliff Broadway. There’s further information about the film at FilmStew.com.