The Hall of Fire

Althoun often makes good points. However, in this case the points that (s)he makes is dependent on the assumption that the main characters in the show will be actual characters created by Tolkien and not characters created by the showrunners. I am not convinced that that is the case. I personally f...

I looked at them a bit yesterday. I certainly hope they are not in any way genuine examples of dialogue from the show! Sent from my LG G6 using Tapatalk I think that user "Althoun" from theonering.net post number two has several good points. http://newboards.theonering.net/forum/gforum/pe...

Four audition tapes has been leaked. My thoughts is that the script in the audition tapes are made up for secrecy.
https://redanianintelligence.com/2019/1 ... ay-an-elf/

The German Tolkien society has posted an interview with Tom Shippey about the amazon series.
https://www.tolkiengesellschaft.de/3091 ... tronprime/

Alatar wrote:They also approved of the LotrO game which saw me fighting giant turtles in Annuminas. Just sayin.

I think that LotrO is licensed by Middle-earth Enterprises not the Tolkien Estate.

Tolkien Estate is pretty unequivocal in its opposition to the film. Tolkien estate disavows forthcoming film starring Nicholas Hoult Here is a link to the Tolkien Estate original statement. https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/statement-from-the-family-of-jrr-tolkien-and-the-tolkien-estate-89...

Tom Shippey and John Howe is working with the Amazon series. And confirmed by Shaun Gunner https://mobile.twitter.com/ShaunGunner/ ... 7882225671 https://ew.com/tv/2019/04/17/amazon-lor ... econd-age/

Voronwë the Faithful wrote:Hmmm?

Good or bad "Hmmm" ?

Voronwë the Faithful wrote:Interesting. Just Morgoth's Ring? Not any other volume of HoMe?

The book of Lost Tales 1 and 2 is already available as ebooks but no other parts of HoMe is.

Morgoth's Ring ebook version is available for preoder on Apple Books release date 2019-17-10.

kzer_za wrote:What is the “Tolkien Copyright Trust”, though?

Maybe they mean The Tolkien Trust ? http://tolkientrust.org/index.html .

Voronwë the Faithful wrote:You mean the "zipped lips" emoticom? Maybe, but I doubt it.

(For those who don't know, Shaun is the head of the Tolkien Society, so might be in a position to know something that others don't know, perhaps.)

Yes I meant "zipped lips".

Shaun Gunner twitted this https://twitter.com/ShaunGunner/status/ ... 4128212993 I do wonder if he knows something that we don't..

Frelga wrote:TIL that Tolkien and CS Lewis once turned up for a party that was not a costume party dressed as polar bears, and I hope it's included in the movie.

In fact I demand that's is included in the movie or I will stand outside Dome Karukoski's home with pitchfork and torch.

Jeremy Edmonds of the Tolkien Collector's Guide has an excellent summary of the maps and what they suggest. Amazon's Lord of the Rings Maps Jeremy had a previous post discussing a fairly arcane error that he noticed in the first map. The Compass Rose on Amazon Prime's Map Not only did Amazon fix th...

Frelga wrote:Does Orsa have anything to do with bears or not in Swedish?

The word "Orsa" has nothing to do with bears. But Orsa has a large wildlife park Orsa Rovdjusparken (Orsa the predator park) with polar bears,Kodiak bears, Wolfs,Persian leopard and Snow leopard etc.

elengil wrote:SVERIGE! EXCELLENT!

Happy to be able to spread some joy.

Voronwë the Faithful wrote:

Primula Baggins wrote:Brilliant, Voronwë!

Only if they post something on Monday. Then I will admit brilliance.

You sir is brilliant .

A new book about and by Tolkien "Tolkien's Lost Chaucer" by John M. Bowers. Release date 2019/09/26 I am quoting the description "Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien worked between 1922...

I don't think it was so cold maybe? 10 minus celsius. Ah, so you live in one of the circles of hell, than? (Greetings from Florida. :wooper: ) I live in Orsa Municipality Sweden and the photo is of Lake Orsa taken from Orsa camping. And if you want to see more photos that is available on Wikipedia....