In the course of my occasional googling to see what's holding up the revival of the Lord of the Rings musical (there was originally large text promising us this revival in 2015, which has given place to a vague "COMING SOON", on the website), I noticed a thing.

There is an old discussion thread about the musical, including a review by Mithalwen ( Read more... )

Soon I shall hopefully be remembering to make the 9pm toast to the Professor, on his birthday. This being so close to the new year, it seems a good occasion for reflection upon some fannish stuff ( Read more... )

If I understand correctly (based upon the really inadequate in-browser translations and my limited grasp of the orthography), a Russian entity at some point in the recent past--or possibly present--made a musical of the Russian fanfic The Black Book of Arda?
Just linking to my tumblr thing for simplicity's sake.I have been cursing loudly in my ( Read more... )

If anyone hasn't yet seen the trailer, which premiered via the Hobbit films' official FB page earlier today, behold:

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My thoughts on the trailer.
( wheee )

I've just finished going through my old youtube account to see what I should transfer to my better-organized new youtube account, and I ran into this clip.

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1. I think Mr. Lee's short-term memory is a bit on the out?  Not that I'm judging, I'm like 1/3 his age and I left my keys in the front door the other day and a passing neighbor luckily alerted ( Read more... )

Like this comparison of a South Park character with a screenshot from an obscure and frightening film butchery of The Hobbit?

Yeah, I forgot that happened.  Mr. Baggins is giving Kyle a run for his money there.

if you haven't already caught this bit of Hobbity news, there has come to light a particularly noisome little film adaptation from the 1960's.

"We were well into the Hobbit screenplay when The Lord of The Rings came out in paperback editions. Having assumed there was only The Hobbit to contend with, and following Snyder's wish, we had taken some ( Read more... )