The Hall of Fire

I totally agree with you, Ax, but I don't find Túrin's unknowingly slaying his friend Beleg in the dark particularly reminiscent of Tolkien's friends dying in WWI. The event itself of Beleg's slaying may not be reminiscent, but the emotion surrounding it may bear a greater similarity. Although Tolk...

You look very biblical. (But different from in other photos-- I don't think I would have recognised you in the slideshow.) It looks like a great show. I hope you have/had a better second night! It's very true about dress rehearsal, but if opening night was just okay, then perhaps it will carry over ...

Fun! (Unlike tech rehearsals.) Band calls are always exciting.
Hope all goes well!

(This was our first night with no hitches whatsoever. It was exciting.)

I think this thread would be appropriate for one of my most favourite lines from the Silm, which is also in my sig right now: And it is said by the Eldar that in the water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance else that is in this Earth; and many of the Childr...

Thanks, Prim and Voronwë! We had a really terrific opening night (with the exception of a stuck screw that really slowed down the set change). I am the assisant stage manager on a one act by Doug Wright called The Stonewater Rapture. It's a very intense and disturbing (and sometimes darkly comedic) ...

Happy tech week! I hope all goes as well as can be expected. I take it you're playing Adam/Noah?

A World Without You is one of my favourite songs.

(Coincedentally, the opening night of my show is tonight.)

I read The Ladies of Grace Adieu , Clarke's book of short stories, over winter holidays and loved it. Aesthetically, it's a really nice book -- really nice cover, well put together, and Charles Vess' illustrations really suit it. The stories vary a lot, but they are all about English magic. Jonathan...

Whee! A Faramir thread! :D I'll echo Mith in saying that Faramir absolutely was tempted. We don't get inside his head to see it, but it's there. That one line quoted above shows that he knows that he has the power to take it. The fact that he's contemplating that at all seems to me to show that he i...

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Voronwë_the_Faithful wrote:It's not like reading a book. It's like being inside of it.

That is such a perfect summation of everything that I love about that book.

I missed JS&MN posts! Mahima, I'm happy to see that I am not the only one who read it, and then turned around and read it again. There is only one other book that I have done that with. I would have done the same thing. It was very tempting, but then I got back into doing shows, and there went f...

I read Golden Compass and Subtle Knife when I was in middle school and loved them. I still think of the very end of Golden Compass whenever I see the Aurora. The idea behind it is almost beautiful. Amber Spyglass ruined it, though. The ax was just sitting there in the middle of the room right next t...

Mahima, I agree with everything you said and love the quotes that you chose. (The Duke of Wellington is one of my favourites, too. He's such a good character.) You don't have any reason to be dissatisfied with what you wrote, though I can see why you would think that. It's a very hard book to adequa...

I saw it in London and didn't care for it at all. It started out all right and then it took a nose dive and never got any better. However, like Alatar said, it's had quite a run in London (four or five years?) so don't take my word. I'm not a fan of jukebox musicals to begin with. I hope you enjoy i...

Right here, Mahima. Drool away! It was very nice to come back online after an interesting weekend and find new posts in this thread. I loved the footnotes. They are irrelevant (unless you feel the need to dissect everything and look for minutiae and such), so you can skip them without losing anythin...

Break a leg!

Having directed and designed for shows that only get one performance, I know what that's like. But as you know, everything always seems to turn out well in the end, and I don't doubt that it will for you.

Surely, it coulda been different. But PJ chose to make TTT a war movie. If you accept that that is what it is, well, it's a pretty darn good war movie. It is a good war movie, but should it have been a war movie at all? As I recall, the Hornburg takes up all of maybe two chapters in the book. That'...

He's always been one of my favourite characters and my favourite part of the the book is Frodo's journey through Osgiliath. I think you mean Ithilien , Mossy dear. The trip to Osgiliath is what many people seem to object most to in TTT. :) Oh, I am so embarrassed. :oops: :oops: Yet another reason n...

To be very biased, the changes they made to Faramir really ruined TTT for me. He's always been one of my favourite characters and my favourite part of the the book is Frodo's journey through Osgiliath. As a movie, it is better than the sadly uneven ROTK, though not as good as the beautiful FOTR. The...

Thanks so much for posting these! I'm listening right now. It's a live recording, no?

On a side note, I was looking for a painting of Lúthien to use as cover art and would like to know why this is the very first image that google comes up with.