Volume 190/Issue 6

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Volume 190/Issue 6

Circulation: One thousand, one hundred and eighty-eight. Welcome all!

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MEDIA NEWS:

• From TheOneRing.net:

~Farewell, Dear Bilbo
"I thought up an ending for my book: 'And he lived happily ever after, unto the end of his days'." Farewell to Sir Ian Holm, our dear and beloved Bilbo Baggins. May you thrive in the far green country and be at peace. Thank you for sharing your marvelous gifts with us and for bringing to life a character so dear to thousands, if not millions, of hearts. At 88 years old, you were a long-lived hobbit indeed. [More]

• From Collider:

~Peter Jackson Pens Tribute to the Late Ian Holm: "Farewell, Dear Bilbo"
Filmmaker Peter Jackson shared a loving tribute for the late Ian Holm in the wake of beloved actor's passing on Friday, June 19. Holm passed away at age 88, with a statement from his agent reading, "It is with great sadness that the actor Sir Ian Holm CBE passed away this morning at the age of 88. He died peacefully in hospital, with his family and carer," adding that his illness was Parkinson's-related before going on to say, "Charming, kind and ferociously talented, we will miss him hugely." [More]

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CHALLENGES/WORKSHOPS/AWARDS:

• From tolkien_weekly:

~ Bathing Challenge - Wash...Hands
One that is very topical -- you can insert your own possessive pronoun as you see appropriate! WASH - - - HANDS. [ More]

FIC/ART NEWS:

• From AO3 - Archive of Our Own:

- TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works
- Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
- The Hobbit - All Media Types
- The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
- Lord of the Rings RPF
- The Hobbit (2012) RPF

DISCUSSIONS OF INTEREST:

• From TOR:

~Melkor Is Rebranded (And Fëanor Goes Under Oath)
In Which Melkor Drops the Other Shoe, Fëanor Rouses a Rabble, and A Promise Is Gravely Made. The dense-but-rich ninth chapter, "Of the Flight of the Noldor," is like Exposition Central in The Silmarillion. Frankly, it might be easier to summarize what doesn't happen in this one: Melkor doesn't stay put. Ungoliant isn't satisfied. Finwë isn't long for this world. Fëanor doesn't let bygones be bygones, nor does he call for solidarity among the Eldar and the Valar. As the Lords of the West sigh wistfully, the Children of the Stars look to eastern shores. And frankly, it's too much to take in all at once, so this installment will only tackle the first half of this famous chapter. [More]

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RESEARCH AIDS:

• From Ask About Middle-earth:

~Aragorn, Eowyn, and the Cup
This exact scene didn't happen in the books (because the entire post-Helm's Deep sequence happens a bit differently in the books), but there are actually two similar scenes in the books that we can examine. [More]

TRIVIA:

• Today's BOOK question from estelanui: What is the name of the burial-mounds of those slain in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields?

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