Good luck. Try not to kill people. Hands! Hands!

Willow ,'Storyteller'


LotR - The Return of the King: "We named the *dog* 'Strider'".  

Frodo: Please, what does it always mean, this... this "Aragorn"? Elrond: That's his name. Aragorn, son of Arathorn. Aragorn: I like "Strider." Elrond: We named the *dog* "Strider".

A discussion of Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King. If you're a pervy hobbit fancier, this is the place for you.


beekaytee - Mar 24, 2004 3:25:25 pm PST #2392 of 3902
Compassionately intolerant

Hm. I missed the formed from stone part. Thanks.


Dana - Mar 29, 2004 7:40:34 pm PST #2393 of 3902
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

So! This July, my local symphony and symphony chorus (including me) will be performing music from the LoTR movies, and they'll have big screens showing scenes from the movies, and how freaking cool is this?


sumi - Mar 30, 2004 4:45:16 am PST #2394 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!

Wow!!! That is soooo excellent!

Also, I didn't realize that Marquette had the world's pre-eminent collection of the works of Tolkien.


Beverly - Mar 30, 2004 4:54:33 am PST #2395 of 3902
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Oh Dana, so jealous! Will there be recordings available for purchase?


Dana - Mar 30, 2004 5:26:53 am PST #2396 of 3902
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I don't know. It's some touring thing -- I guess maybe they're sending the screens around, or the musical arrangements or something? I'll post more about it when I find out.

I'm totally looking forward to the freaky Nazgul attack song.


Beverly - Mar 30, 2004 5:31:39 am PST #2397 of 3902
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Are you a soprano? Will you get to do the Ben del Maestro descant?


Dana - Mar 30, 2004 5:36:29 am PST #2398 of 3902
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Alto. But I've got no idea how things are going to be arranged or what will be included.


Kathy A - Mar 30, 2004 8:34:26 am PST #2399 of 3902
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Dana, that is soooo cool! My LotR-geek co-worker went to the Howard Shore concert in Columbus on Friday, and said it was just fantastic. I think that his concerts are being restricted to just the music written by him, so they don't do Pippin's song or any of the Enya music from FotR.

Sumi, I haven't been back to see the Marquette exhibit since I graduated from there back in '88, and it's been expanded and showcased in the new library, I hear. I've been thinking about making a trip up there, maybe this summer--would you like to come with? I can show you some of the other nice stuff Marquette has on campus (a 14th-century chapel with very cool medieval artifacts inside, a decent art museum, and some pretty good restaurants nearby).


Kathy A - Mar 30, 2004 9:03:54 am PST #2400 of 3902
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Cereal to add:

Sumi, did you see this over at TORN?

LECTURE: "Adapting Middle-Earth: Tolkien, the Books, and the Movies" by Thomas Shippey (St. Louis University), Saturday, April 3, 2004, 8:00 p.m., Gable Hall, Cavan Auditorium. Thomas Shippey is giving the lecture/ QA session on the campus of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb Illinois.

I might be tempted to go--Shippey's really interesting on both the DVDs and his books.


sumi - Mar 30, 2004 10:13:26 am PST #2401 of 3902
Art Crawl!!!

Yes, it's part of a conference here.

I think it's free.