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"The Tolkien Society is NOT an official representative of the copyright holders - but an independent readers' group. If anyone sees anything they think should be notified to Tolkien's copyright holders, they should leave a message at the website of HarperCollins UK or Houghton Mifflin in the US." The publishers' "Terms & Conditions" links, at the foot of the page, share specific contact data, and format for reporting infringements. ...okfine? Namarie !
"Foreward/Afterword" on These Story Synopsis Pages They are just that - a Storytelling, and meant to create interest in the books and films, and I truly hope they do. I am not normally fanatic about a story, but these times have challenged so many, and LOTR shares a winning approach to coping in perilous times and surviving them in "better than ever" condition ! I liked the Valiant message, the ideas of good and evil, and the team-play on the part of the powers for good, resulting in a very big win! I liked the humanity, charm and fun....even at the worst moments, the observations were full of appreciation, interest and enthusiasm for the world and everything in it. The books were written with early childhood development more in mind, but some of it was bound to be lost in the film. It would have taken nine films, not three, to include all the tales, poems, songs, characters, and lore and subplots contained in the books, and I have only praise for Peter Jackson's Crew and their work. It's good. If you enjoyed the story synopsis page linked above, of "The Lord of the Rings", you might enjoy reading the books available everywhere, and there are also audio-taped versions of the trilogy available. And of course, VHS and DVD. I hope you enjoy this page as much as I did reliving the heartening adventure in the writing of it.....elle |
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~~~~~~ How LOTR found me an' my folk! Introducing my Lord of the Rings Triology edition, it's author mentions his first meeting with Frodo & Middle Earth. For friends of Tolkien (pronounced, "toll-keen"), it gets nearly as important as the day one met one's "one, true love"! I was college freshman, with liberal arts foci, at a non-Catholic school for the first time since the first grade, and the people on my campus who talked of Frodo and the Lord of the Rings, in those days, just before everyone was picketing and demonstrating about something, were not appealing to this lady. I would not pick it up, as excited as they were about it. My priority that year was keeping my "white-dress bride-ness" perfect, while awaiting the return of my personal king from Officer's training to shine in his Lieutenant's uniform at our Christmas wedding. I could only smile at the rabid hobbit-lovers, being in a state of romantic superiority, and general disinterest in literary "extranea". My personal king won his degree in chemistry, and my heart when he opted Army Corps of Engineers for his required military service, to protest Chemical Warfare. Triumphant wedding, VietNam service, joyful homecoming, a son, daughter and good work in a new place meant the next few years raced by, and We four were pioneers of a sort, startup crew, making medicine in a southern boomtown, the new thinktanks, for the company that sold its pharmaceutical interests to pay for its leadership in the Human Genome Project, the parent of all the wonderful "dna-ish" marvels. And after the plant setup, we had our first opportunity to restore ourselves from the "sturm und drang". A honeymoon, finally, and time to develop the family circle, complete with hairdresser, decorator and four willing hearts. So, a jam-packed five years later, somehow the Trilogy of the Rings leaped off a local bookshelf, like Merry and Pippin in the Fellowship film, popping through the verge at Sam and Frodo, laden with neat veggies and Mushrooms! Winter was coming, and our good lives and our two good early readers inclined us to gather around the fireplace with books, and Brittany spaniel, "Apples Lothlorien"and her best friend,goldcat,"Oranges", and marshmallows and cocoa, and happy hearts, passing the books around among us, taking turns reading the near-biblical passages...I don't remember the fireplace needing any poking up...I think it was happy to "see to itself" and join in the fun! ... our very own "Fellowship Days"! ... though I am sure we thought nothing of the sort at the time, and simply enjoyed the evenings, very specially! If this happy memory was not enough to keep it archived and glowing in our hearts, the memory of the Books and our time together with them was a vitamin and a healer and an energizer later, when my Prince passed away, too young. The value of special happy memories really helps in restoring the positive soul among his survivors, and "letting go of the grieving". Thanksomuch! |
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Lord of the Rings and other Tolkien Sites
The Tolkien Society Homepage
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"Art is Life" and the filming of "Lord of the Rings" in New Zealand has brought a great deal of worldwide attention to the stunningly beautiful and mysterious land!
Some that may interest you:
"Kiwiclaus"~ by this artist ~ available for purchase or development. Contact link at top-left of this page.
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Tolkien-inspired Merchandise "Art is life is art is life is art..." Nevertheless, a year after the LOTR Trilogy walked off with the prizes, and our hearts, top merchandise items are still borrowed stronly from Middle Earth icons. Just one item-mention each year, among many, many that appear: Lucky us!...Namarie! 
Paper and aluminum vases and bowls from Moon Palace in Paris come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Hand-tufted area rugs of New Zealand wool are made in western Pennsylvania. Sizes range from a 2-by-8-foot runner ($800) to an 8-by-10-foot carpet ($4,000). The rugs are made by Galbraith & Paul, a small company that also hand-prints fabrics and papers used for custom-made lampshades and hanging light fixtures; (215) 508-0800 or www.galbraithandpaul.com. Corallo, a tree-shape coat rack woven of natural wicker by Gervasoni in Milan, is $949. It can be custom-ordered from Peter Schat in High Point, N.C.; (336) 887-9296...." Without making an active study of it, this month, alone, I spotted: an investment firm tv ad that copied, frame for frame, the Fellowship's Journey down the Anduin...it was as though someone had cut and pasted the businesmen's figures in the place of the Hobbits, Dwarves, Elf, and Men... the scenery, the elvish boats, the mist...the colors and lighting! Everyone in the office has found a way to use "desire" in sentence, just like elf-king Celeborn, and I got the best response in a business situation, girl or no girl, with "I was....um...delayed." The san francisco orchid association web site homepage icon is a Tolkien arts piece, and the New York Times last week featured a slideshow of th elatest in interior design accessories...every one of which could have been set props for the film. There is a list of them, and I will note more of them as I go on here, but I would like to ask you to
send in your observations of objects, etc...inspired by the Lord of the Rings, and I will post them here....I am sure the
producers of the film have legal protection and watchdogs for such things, and if you have interesting data on that subject, add it to your note to me. Thanks for reading these notes...elle page credits:  "Elen sila lumenn'omentielvo" or, "A star shines on the hour of our meeting!" |