Category: Event News

The theme for this year’s Tolkien Society seminar is “Politics and Middle-earth”. The seminar will take place on Saturday 22nd July at The Assembly House, Norwich, England. There are further details at the Tolkien Society’s website here.

Kevin Wallace, one of the producers of the LotR musical currently playing in Toronto, confirmed that the stage show will open in London in 2007. More information can be found in this article at Backstage, in which Wallace also talks about critical reaction to the production.

There was an item on the LotR stage show in Toronto on the BBC’s Breakfast news programme last week which can be viewed on the BBC website along with an article by journalist Lee Carter. There are also articles about the show in The Times and The Guardian newspapers.

Calendar Live has a review of the LotR stage show in Toronto, considering the effect of the show’s budget, the quality of the adaptation and the storytelling, and a comparison with Peter Jackson’s films, as well as the music of the three-and-a-half hour stage show.

Critics are split about the opening performance of the theatrical extravaganza of ‘The Lord of the Rings’. It opened last night in Toronto, Canada. While one reviewer was “bored” with the apparent lack of spectacular theatre effects, and another decried the loss of character development to other aspects of the play, J.R.R.Tolkien’s granddaughter Rachel Tolkien,…

The composer of the music for the stage adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, music director A.R. Rahman, talks about his “amazing experience” working on the stage show in this article at Glasham.com.

Composer A.R. Rahman and the Finnish group Varttina have combined their efforts for the ”The Lord of the Rings” stage version music. You can read a short interview with A.R. Rahman here. The opening day of the LotR stage version is on March 23.

The second Vacaville Middle-earth festival takes place from 21st to 23rd April. The venue is downtown Vacaville, CA, and the festival begins on 21st April with a forum on Themes of Tolkien. On 22nd and 23rd April events include; music, crafts and old time skill demonstrations There will also be a trivia contest, a ‘Long…

At globeandmail.com Peter Darling, choreographer for the stage version of The Lord of the Rings, talks about his work on the show. There are also some quotes about the physical demands of the show from the actors, including Dion Johnson, who in the role of Boromir “must run, duck and dodge while wearing three-inch heels”.

Stuff.co.nz report that Te Papa has spent $125,000 on a World War I plane engine for Peter Jackson. The New Zealand museum will now be able to put on the Lord of the Rings exhibition for a 18 week run starting in April and there will also be a 12 week run at another, yet…