Comments | abandonada: Tolkien poem on the radio

abandonada

Tolkien poem on the radio

Feb 01, 2008 17:30

The professor who's giving the Tolkien lectures up at the University said that this coming Sunday, February 3, one of the local radio stations will broadcast one of Tolkien's poems The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son. What makes it noteworthy is that Tolkien himself does the reading on a recording he made at home. The professor says he ( Read more... )

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baranduin February 2 2008, 02:08:06 UTC

OMG, thank you!

abandonada February 2 2008, 05:07:31 UTC

You're welcome. I only hope it's really on! And that I don't forget to listen in.

baranduin February 2 2008, 21:26:58 UTC

Me, too.

will pimp this on my LJ as well.

maxwellgrant February 2 2008, 05:29:19 UTC

Thank you so much for this.

I can't wait until my digital camera is up and running so I can make great pics like you do!

maxwellgrant February 3 2008, 08:10:11 UTC

Better remind myself, too:

I hope this will really be on. The time is 6:00 pm Pacific Time (GMT -8 hours), Sunday, February 3. Here's a link to the radio station, the Sunday show is called Mostly Medieval:

http://kbcs.fm/site/PageServer?pagename=weeklyprogramschedule

You can listen with RealOne, Windows Media Player, or iTunes. Click "Listen Live" in the upper right-hand corner.

Thanks so much, abandonada!!

abandonada February 3 2008, 17:01:12 UTC

I wish I could verify on the web site that this poem will really be on. The professor spoke with certainty as to its airing so fingers crossed!

And thanks for the reminders!

maxwellgrant February 10 2008, 04:15:43 UTC

Did anybody besides me get to listen?

It was on. It was cute that the Professor did sound effects to go along with it. I couldn't listen to the whole thing but I quoted the line "rest with a roof made of thoughts" on my journal. Tolkien's son Christopher introduced the recording - preceding that they explained T made it because of his dissatisfaction with one made with radio actors. That reminded me of some entries in Tolkien's letters where he interacts with some people trying to adapt his work to film, he is humorously confounded by the additions and deletions to The Hobbit (I don't think this was about LOTR; I never heard about the Beatles trying to acquire the rights to film it with them as the four hobbits until recently)...

Anyways, thanks, so much for this. Thanks for adding me as a friend.

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Thanks and reminder maxwellgrant February 3 2008, 08:09:16 UTC

Reminding you to listen Sunday; I need reminding to - I just emailed this to all my Tolkien-knowing friends. Here is what abandonada said again in case you're only able to get to read your inbox:

I hope this will really be on. The time is 6:00 pm Pacific Time (GMT -8 hours), Sunday, February 3. Here's a link to the radio station, the Sunday show is called Mostly Medieval:

http://kbcs.fm/site/PageServer?pagename=weeklyprogramschedule

You can listen with RealOne, Windows Media Player, or iTunes. Click "Listen Live" in the upper right-hand corner.