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| [What
is it about Tolkien that draws so many artists to illustrate him?]
Ithink it is mostly to do with how fully he engages the reader's imagination. His own love of his story and its incredible verisimilitude, as set in the world he imagined, seems to powerfully inspire further creativity in his readers' minds as well, whether they be artists, musicians, writers, craftspeople, scholars or whatever. artist
/ illustrator Ted Nasmith [HarperCollins
interview]
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Silmarillion
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| Tolkien
spoke of myths and fairy stories, rather than "fantasy."
He was a lifelong practicing, and very devout, Catholic who believed that mythology was a means of conveying certain transcendent truths which are almost inexpressible within the factual confines of a "realistic" novel. |
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
(1892-1973) -
photo from book: Tolkien: A Celebration |
| In order to
understand Tolkien's "philosophy of myth" it is useful to commence with
a maxim of G.K. Chesterton: "not facts first, truth first."
Tolkien and Chesterton were both intent on differentiating between facts, which are purely physical, and truth, which is metaphysical. Joseph Pearce |
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*book:**The
Art of the Fellowship of the Ring by Gary Russell
Alan Lee, the beloved illustrator of many of Houghton Mifflinís Tolkien editions, and a talented team of other artists, including the renowned Tolkien illustrator John Howe, have spent more than three years creating the sets, props, creatures, and locations that truly bring Tolkienís Middle-earth to life. Hobbiton, Rivendell, and Minas Tirith are no longer designations on the map. Literally hundreds of designers and craftspeople have been painstakingly adding authentic cultural details to each of more than 48,000 separate objects shown in The Fellowship of the Ring, from armor to props to architecture. All this and more is shown in Gary Russellís lavishly illustrated book. Russell spent time on the set in New Zealand, conducting interviews with director Peter Jackson, special effects guru Richard Taylor, art directors Paul Lasainne, Dan Hennah, and Chris Hennah, costumer Ngila Dickson, and Alan Lee and John Howe. Featuring everything from pencil sketches to the finished objects, his book gives detailed descriptions of why and how this groundbreaking film looks as exciting as it does. [Amazon.com review] |
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The Lord of the Rings :
The Fellowship of the Ring [full screen dvd]
The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King
(Platinum Series Special Extended
Edition Collector's Gift Set)Release Date: December 14, 2004
* DVD Features include :
* Available subtitles: English, Spanish, French
* Commentary by The Director and Writers; Design Team
* Commentary by The Production/Post-Production Team
* Commentary by The Cast
* Bonus DVD: Howard Shore: Creating the Symphony
* A new version of the third installment includes 50 minutes of never-before-seen footage incorporated into the film.
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The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition)Leather-bound, slipcased volume has gilt-edged pages and a ribbon bookmark. Inside are two fold-out maps and a four-page color insert showing leaves from the story's "Book of Mazarbul."
Appendixes contain family trees, a chronology, calendars, and a writing and spelling guide. There are separate indexes for characters, places, things, and songs and verses.
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.......Lord of The Rings: The Third Age
adventure game by Electronic Arts
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..see more Lord of the Rings
on the pages :...digital imaging...Tolkien
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The Lord of the Rings [BOX SET] The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings [BOX SET] The Lord of the Rings (Leatherette Collector's Edition) The Making of the Movie Trilogy by Brian Sibley The Two Towers Visual Companion: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion
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"Galadriel appears sporadically, but intensely, in all the [Tolkien ring trilogy] books... my filming was done.. just after The Gift, so it was a real kick going from one woman with psychic powers to one with the universal power of psychic precognition. ... Cate Blanchett [The Age, April 7, 2001]
she stars in "The Gift" as a card reader with strong psychic ability
*related page:**psychic ability
as Galadriel in
"The Fellowship of the Ring"
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Fran Walsh** Philippa Boyens**
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**Lord of the Rings film trilogy co-writers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens
The writers' working conditions suggest that thereís no one way to craft and epic film but that it can take shape
in all manner of conditions. "We worked literally all over the world," says Boyens, "In hotel rooms; over congealing
plates of egg for breakfast; we've written late, really really late into the night... We've written on the sides of
volcanoes, down by lakes, getting bitten by sandflies.."They began with a 90-page outline of the three books and, says Walsh rewrote it "again and again and again,
until the essence of the story revealed itself. It's about finding an economy and simplicity in the storytelling
which does not compromise the complex themes in the book."Do the filmmakers care about how "purists" will react?
Boyens replies, as ever, promptly and directly,: "Yeh. You have to care."Walsh agrees: "Yeh." (You have to hear both womenís "Yeh" in that delightful, drawn-out Aussie/New Zealand
drawl that so enlivens their discussions of work and complements their eagerness to laugh.) "but I don't so much
care as hope. I really do. And after meeting with a lot of people at conventions, and Tolkien scholars and so on,
I had a real sense that they understood that this is a reading of the book, just as Shakespeare's plays have been
interpreted many times in many ways. And our culture is greater for those explorations." ...Boyens sums it all up: "It's been a great privilege."
excerpt of Scr(i)pt Magazine article - posted on Tolkien Online
Frances Walsh and Peter Jackson co-wrote, and Jackson directed, Heavenly Creatures (1994)
starring Melanie Lynskey as Pauline Parker, Kate Winslet as Juliet Hulme: "..New Zealand teenagers
whose obsessive relationship drove them to murder. Very well acted... and stunningly directed by Jackson,
who plunges us into the bizarre fantasy world that the girls create for themselves." [from review by Leonard Maltin]more about Heavenly Creatures on related page:**the shadow self
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"It seems bizarrely appropriate
that the enormously risky Tolkien trilogy The Lord Of The Rings is being
made by a pot-bellied, barefooted, shaggy-haired Kiwi whose production
company is called Wingnut Films. Peter Jackson is a bit of a wingnut. As
a man, he is a bona fide eccentric who shows up for interviews without
shoes and socks while looking more like a Hobbit than a human." [Toronto
Sun, December 16, 2001]
< from article: Eccentricity
and Creativity
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What is Glossopoeia?One of J.R.R. Tolkien's less famous works is A Secret Vice, a lecture first presented in 1931,
and reprinted as an essay in The Monsters & the Critics and Other Essays. The "vice" to which
the essay refers is the peculiar practice of creating languages, not as a code, but as an art form,
perhaps to be shared for the use or appreciation of interested parties, as one would share a
painting or manuscript.The word glossopoeia is a coinage derived from Greek, meaning "the making of tongues."
As Tolkien explains, the creation of languages offers both intellectual and aesthetic satisfaction,
but at the time he wrote, there were few such creations known to the public. As we will see, this
situation has changed considerably since that time.In this article, we will consider the genesis and effects of the three best-known glossopoeic
works in chronological order: the international language Esperanto; the Elvish cluster of languages;
and tlhIngan Hol, better known by its English name, "Klingon."from article: Glossopoeia for Fun and Profit**[on TheOneRing.net site]
**dvds:
J.R.R. Tolkien: The Origin of the Rings
Master of the Rings - The Unauthorized Story Behind J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings"
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Boxed Set
Lord of the Rings with 50 illustrations by artist Alan Lee
Lord of the Rings Collectors Edition
The Lord of the Rings Boxed Set
The Lord of the Rings Official Movie Guide
Meditations on Middle-Earth edited by Karen Haber
This collection of essays is basically a collection of love stories -- stories about falling in love with Tolkienís novels -- true stories at that. These are the memories and thoughts of: Raymond Feist, Poul Anderson, George R.R. Martin, Esther M. Friesner, Michael Swanwick, Terry Pratchett, Robin Hobb, Ursula K. Le Guin, Diane Duane, Harry Turtledove, Douglas A. Anderson, Orson Scott Card, Charles De Lint, Lisa Goldstein, Tim and Greg Hildebrandt (as related by Glenn Hurdling), Terri Windling, collection editor Karen Haber, and illustrator John Howe. ... itís something to consider when such a number of creatively-gifted people have had such strong imaginative interactions with the same texts. They invite the reader into their personal worlds to share their experiences regarding Tolkienís Middle-Earth. from mervius.com review by Eva Wojcik-ObertTolkien : The Illustrated Encyclopaedia by David Day
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