The Eighty-first Roving Ranger
Life and Works
Feb 27, 1917. J.R.R. Tolkien faces his third Medical Board, and again his leave is extended.
Feb 28, 2022. Priscilla Tolkien (Abre numa nova janela), Tolkien's daughter, dies.
Mar 1, 1968. In a letter to Miss E. Byrne (Abre numa nova janela) Tolkien writes:
My most treasured volume was John’s Flowers of the Field, an account of the flora of the British Isles.
Mar 3, 1983. The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays (Abre numa nova janela) is published [UK].
Mar 4, 1937. The 'second' version of Iúmonna Gold Galdre Bewunden (Abre numa nova janela)" is published with the Oxford Magazine.
Mar 7. J.R.R. Tolkien wanted this night to have a full moon (Abre numa nova janela)...
Mar 8, 1939. Tolkien gives the lecture On Fairy-Stories (Abre numa nova janela).
Events & Shows
This weekend Lure of Middle-earth (Abre numa nova janela) is happening at Castle Stahleck.
The National Children's Theatre (Abre numa nova janela) in South Africa is doing a Hobbit camp in March.
Scholarship and Fandom
It is Verlyn Flieger (Abre numa nova janela)'s birthday! [Get any of her amazing books (Abre numa nova janela)!]
Great Literary Friendships (Abre numa nova janela) by Janet Philipps includes the 'heroes of Middle-earth, Frodo and Sam' and many more such friendships from 400 years of outstanding literature. (All sales support the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford).
A most entertaining and delightful treatise on the Latin-based fun Tolkien had with Farmer Giles of Ham (Abre numa nova janela).
John Garth's summer schools in Oxford (Abre numa nova janela) are booked out - on Tolkien's mythology and JRRT & CSL.
John Rateliff has some thoughts on Roald Dahl, Tolkien (Abre numa nova janela), and 'rewrites', and David Bratman (Abre numa nova janela), too.
Tom Hillman's 'Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring" now has a publication date (Abre numa nova janela). And while you are on his website do check out this interesting train of thought (Abre numa nova janela).
The German Tolkien Society has put a CfP for this year's Seminar: With other eyes: The Visualisation of Tolkien’s Work (Abre numa nova janela).
The Spanish Tolkien Society (Abre numa nova janela) now has more than 1,000 members, the third literary society to achieve this after the Tolkien Society and the German Tolkien Society.
Franchise and Merchandise
The #1 piece of news right now on the franchise: New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movies in the Works at Warners, New Line (Abre numa nova janela). [Hollywoord Reporter] [Press release (Abre numa nova janela) with WB Discovery]
The TCU (Tolkien Cinematic Universe) seems to be happening. [MAB; my comment]
Vin Diesel does not mind having the Fast & Furious franchise called the "Lord of the Rings of action movies." [AV Club (Abre numa nova janela)]
What Middle-earth character has the most LEGO minifigs (Abre numa nova janela)? [Brick Fanatics]
Interested in a fancy feast at the trademarked Hobbit Houses (Abre numa nova janela) in Richmond, recently announced (Abre numa nova janela)?
Originally announced in 2021 (Abre numa nova janela), Magic: The Gathering will bring LotR into its Universes Beyond (Abre numa nova janela) fold on June 23rd.
Embracer Group announced five video game titles in production for the next 24 months in their Q3 report presentation (Abre numa nova janela) 2022/2023 in the Entertainment & Services section:
Gollum (Abre numa nova janela) - Daedalic
Return to Moria (Abre numa nova janela) - Free Range Games
Unannounced game from Weta Workshop (Abre numa nova janela) (published by Take-Two's Private Division label)
Mystery title
Director James Cameron compared himself to Tolkien:
"I was trying to do a simulation of, OK, I’m Peter Jackson making Lord of the Rings except Lord of the Rings doesn’t exist yet, so I need to go be Tolkien and create Lord of the Rings, and then I can go be Peter Jackson." [Time (Abre numa nova janela)]
Inter alia & Back in the day
On Feb 29, 2004, The Return of the King (Abre numa nova janela) wins 11 Oscars out of 11 nominations.
The AI end of humanity seems to be near, at least, in writing: Science Fiction Magazines Battle a Flood of Chatbot-Generated Stories (Abre numa nova janela). [New York Times]
The political right in Europe seems to happily embrace Middle-earth as a background to its doings as shown by Polish prime minister Morawiecki and his Italian counterpart Meloni taking photos in front of a Middle-earth map, claiming: "Together, we'll defeat Mordor (Abre numa nova janela)." [At Paradox Café (Abre numa nova janela), Warsaw]
The UK Prevent (Abre numa nova janela) scheme has come under fire recently after publishing a long list of works possibly endangering democracy: Can you really be radicalised by Great British Railway Journeys? (Abre numa nova janela) [Spectator; paywall]
I kid you not, though it seems that all satire is dead, but the list of suspect books also includes 1984 by George Orwell.
You like string quartets, France, and Tolkien? Have no fear - meet Arod (Abre numa nova janela).
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