Archive: J.R.R. Tolkien category
Four things. First, I need to spend more time reading. Seriously.
Second, I hit up the bargain book sale today outside the bookstore and now have exactly 1,000 books. Finally! (They're all in my apartment except for maybe twenty on my desk at work. I, um, ...
I'm not entirely sure what's going on, but I feel busier than I've been in a long time. Objectively speaking, though, I don't think that's actually the case. It's weird. At any rate, this perceived busyness is the reason I haven't been posting quite every day. ...
1. Tonight I tried out speed dating for the first time. (It was a ward activity.) Holy smokes, I loved it! I love getting to know people and making new friends, and I love talking (perhaps too much, but to my credit I also love listening, though ...
In the mythsoc digest that came through last night, there's a fascinating article by Jef Murray as part of the January 2008 issue of his Mystical Realms newsletter:
In the Lord of the Rings, all of Hobbiton was paralyzed by Saruman and just a few dozen of the Big ...
Today is J.R.R. Tolkien's birthday. He'd be 115 today, actually, which mainly makes me wonder why I wasn't paying attention when his eleventy-first birthday happened back in 2005. ~sigh~
To verify the year, I went to Wikipedia's Tolkien page. And then curiosity got the better of me and ...
From Yahoo News:
NEW YORK -- Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema have reached agreement to make J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit," a planned prequel to the blockbuster trilogy "The Lord of the Rings."
Jackson, who directed the "Rings" trilogy, will serve as executive producer for "The Hobbit." A director for the ...
The Prince Caspian trailer is out. Mmm. Now, just how many days till May 16? :)
In other news (from a rather opposite direction :)), at Christianity Today I came across Jeffrey Overstreet's review of Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass (part of the His Dark Materials ...
I finished my finals last night. One semester of grad school down, three to go. But let's not worry about the to-go part just yet -- I've got a month of freedom to enjoy first. :)
Remember how I said I was going to write a nonfiction book? ...
It's snowing. A lot. And I'm tucked up somewhat cozily on the fifth floor of the library, pecking away on this post as I do my darndest to avoid working on my final for my reference class. The guy next to me has a tinny "Deck the ...
Good news! A few days ago I talked with the department chair of Special Collections and snagged an internship there for this summer, going through all the valuable books and reassessing their fair market value (which means talking with curators and rare book dealers and such). Yes, I'm ...
