So I'm reading The Fellowship by Phillip and Carol Zaleski, which is a pretty massive biography of the Inklings. It's good, but I'm getting tired how all of the women--or at least everyone but Mrs. Moore, who possibly was the lover of CS Lewis--are always offstage having babies and doing gods know what, while the homosocial literary meetings just ( Read more... )

Spoiler alert, just so you're aware--Smaug is actually Khan.

( But seriously, folks )

If there isn't a full essay on this in the inevitable volume on Hobbit fanworks, I will cry.

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I particularly like how it's a "Who's Who" of popular fandoms in 2014: Hobbit, Marvel (esp. Guardians of the Galaxy, Spider-Man, Captain America), Batman, Game of Thrones, Star Trek, and Sailor Moon.

I loved it. Of course I loved it. Was there ever gonna be any doubt? I will say I thought its pacing was greatly improved from the first film; everything flows together really well. I also like Smaug; I really, REALLY like Smaug, and my reaction to him (much like the funky birds in Avatar) was that we are SO READY for a Dragonriders of Pern movie ( Read more... )

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Also I'm ridiculously fond of that rock riff of "Misty Mountains."

CURRENT TALLY OF COMPLETED FIC WORDAGE: 430,430
All Star Trek stories are Kirk/McCoy unless otherwise stated.
All Avengers stories are Steve/Tony unless otherwise stated.

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Sidewaysedly, with ithiliana's feedback I submitted the following paper proposal to the Tolkien area at Kalamazoo for next year:

Constructing Lothίriel: Rewriting and Rescuing the Women of Middle Earth from the Margins ( Read more... )

So tonight there was a screening of the original Clash of the Titans, which was made awesomer because the gang of folks behind us were world class MST3K snarkers. Afterwards there was a raffle, and my friend and colleague Melissa won several things, including a copy of the LOTR The Two Towers Movie Companion and Ringers, a documentary on LOTR ( Read more... )

I found an interesing blogpost on Rereading the LOTR appendices. I always found it about equally fascinating and annoying that Tolkien put so much of the actual STORY in the appendices: ALL of Aragorn and Arwen's love story, for instance, most of the real background and ending stuff...yeah. (And of course, per usual, Rohan gets ROBBED. *grump ( Read more... )