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Tolkien Events 2010
Tolkien Moot VI (previously MerpCon) will be taking place in Spokane, Washington, 2010, July 30th through August 1st.
The event includes noted Tolkien scholars and authors as guest speakers, games placed in Tolkien's world, food and more. Details will be posted at http://www.tolkienmoot.org, but for information on previous years (when it was still called MerpCon), check the site http://www.merpcon.org. Watch for more details in coming months. Feel free to email for more information: webmaster at tolkienmoot dot org. |
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Happy New Year! 2010 is here, and it's time to start planning for the upcoming events.
The German Tolkien Society's Seminar will take place in Jena, Germany in late April or early May. The topic is "Tolkien and Romanticism". I'll add the exact date when it's available. The DTG's annual members' event, Tolkien Thing, is scheduled for July 15 - 18, 2010, in Bad Hersfeld, Germany. The Tolkien Society's Oxonmoot will be held in late September in Oxford, England. Ring*Con will be in Bonn, Germany from October 15 - 17. Details and additions to follow.
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...not to forget the very first Tolkien event of the year - the Birthday Toast! Please stand and raise a glass of whatever you choose to drink at 9 pm this evening with the words "The Professor!"
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Too bad that Jena, Bonn and Bad Hersfeld are all a bit too far away from Karlsruhe for me to attend, although I have now discovered there is a local fans' gathering in Karlsruhe which I plan to attend from now on.
If anyone here happens to come from the Baden region, it would be nice to meet you there. ![]()
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Nice site relating to The Festival in the Shire event this August - with some interesting stuff. http://festivalintheshire.com/journal/index.html Check out the Daphne Castell interview with Tolkien from 1966:
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That interview is splendid. The extra details of Beruthiel are especially fun, as is hearing of Tolkien's two favourite parts of LotR.
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I'm outraged by the price for Festival In The Shire. Ł260 and no accommodation or feast?! You can get all that plus bed and board at Oxonmoot!
As for paying Ł50 for tickets to go and look at first editions, if anyone wants to come and look at some here you can have a special entrance offer price of Ł29.99, with a free cup of tea ![]()
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What.....?
These prices include general admission to the Festival, but not to the Collectors Exposition. The different entrance prices are geared toward different levels of interest; beginner to experienced, however we encourage you to become experienced by purchasing a Collectors Exposition ticket also.
Surely you can't buy experience (well... debatable)...but I can't believe gawping at first editions and even upmarket merchandising tat will do it.. After all the great thing about books is that they are essentially the same if you have a mint first edition or a tattered paperback..
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That's the thinking behind this - as it was behind the Exeter College Tolkien do a few years back which cost Ł695 for a 5 day conference (but that was full board, admittedly). I'll be interested to see whether this gets many takers.
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Don't let your heads get too big for your hats.....
Bad news for those planning to go to the Festival
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Festival Journal2 is up http://www.festivalintheshire.com/journal/index.html Nice stuff- Interviews with artists like Ted Naismith, John Howe, & one of my faves Rodney Matthews (for those unfamiliar with his work, here's his Rivendell)
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The Tolkien Seminar in Jena (Germany) will be held from Friday 23.04.10 to Sunday 25.04.10
I'm looking forward to going there and meeting Esty again! This years topic "Tolkien and Romanticism appeals especially to me. I always had the impression that Tolkien had a lot in common with the romantics. Here's a link to a schedule and abstracts of the lectures:http://seminar2010.kolbitar.de/
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This prompted me to look for news of the UK seminar - there isn't but I found a reminder of Tolkien Reading Day a couple of weeks away on 25th March.
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Hmm . . . I wonder. Any chance of a Tolkien event somewhere on the Pacific coast of North America this autumn or winter? Preferably in the vicinity of Northern California or Oregon.
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The Tolkien Soc website claims that booking is open for Oxonmoot but isn't showing the costs atm...
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I guess I'm the only Downer who's a member of the German Tolkien Society, so I won't be meeting any of you there, sadly. However, there are so many wonderful people coming and interesting activities scheduled that I am very much looking forward to this (extended) weekend!
More infos: Tolkien Thing, July 15 - 18 2010
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It was a fabulous weekend! Tolkien people are such a wonderful bunch, the programme was interesting, and we all had a really great time! For those of you who live in or near Germany, I can only recommend joining the DTG, or at least starting by visiting one of the local "Stammtische" (smials) in your area.
Now the next event is coming up. Who's coming to Oxonmoot this year? Hookbill has booked, so have I. If enough of us are interested and bring something appropriate, we could enter the costume competition as a group of "Wizards of Many Colours" - anyone want to join me? My new wizard costume might be just *slightly* non-canonical, but I did my best to fit the character into Tolkien's world.
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well this is somewhat near there, Tolkien Moot 2010 is tsking place in Spokanee, washington August 13-15. Www.tolkienmoot.org |
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Actually a correction on the dates for Tolken Moot, it is taking place in Spokane Washington USA, August 13-15. Also this year the special guests are "Elven Singer" Rehtaeh, and she will be singing a new song from her upcoming 4th album (world premiere of this song), and published Tolkien author and essayist Michael Martinez will be speaking. There will also be another edition of "Raw Hobbit", youth Tolkien panel, and much more. Seats are neary full, so RSVP today. For those who can not make the event in person, it will once again be streamed live over multiple webcams, live audio sreaming, and interactive real time chat rooms for the Q&A sessions. |
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But we don't want a gaggle of Gandalfs do we, we need another blue wizard and a brown one, a white and a grey.
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Don't worry, Narffie, I won't come as a gaggle of Gandalfs, neither grey nor white. As a matter of fact, I won't come as a blue or brown wizard either. It is possible, you know, that there were wizards Tolkien forgot to mention in the books...
OK, we have you as blue, hopefully Hookbill as brown, me as .... - any other takers?
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Balderdash the Bazaar......... Incognito the Indigo......... Guppie the Green......... Larry the Lavender....... Bumpkin the Pumpkin ..... come do tell.
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I'm actually planning on doing a Turin costume (complete with 'kick me' sign for my back
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Would this mean I would have to pack the wizard's hat as a "carry on"?
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Hmm. Seems my Turin costume has to be abandoned due to a helmet malfunction and a lack of 'can be bothered' on my part. Looks like Radagast is back on the cards if you guys want a wizarding theme.
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Hooky it would be perfect, we now need a grey, a white (Saruman pref) and another blue ............any takers.
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This time next week I'll be singing The Ballad of Gil-galad at some party in Oxford...
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Here's a link to some photographs taken at that event:
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thanks for the link! But sadly, I can't spot any Downers on these pictures...
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Esty is on Pge 3, she is dressed in pink with pom-poms, also I think that Hooky has posted some on Facebook.
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To back up narfforc, Esty is the one in pink with the pom-poms. You're quite right, Guinevere, that 'the terrible illumination at the party makes it almost impossible to take decent pictures'. This year was no exception.
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Well, I never!!
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Let the masks begin!
Oxonmoot seemed slower this year, but possibly that's because for me it was sandwiched between two weeks of intensive sightseeing with Estelyn Telcontar, both in England and in Germany.
I enjoyed Angie Gardner's lecture on materials for her forthcoming book on the Tolkien brothers and especially was delighted to see documents that the Estate will not allow to be published. Tolkien had a great sense of humour and a lively sense of fun. And Faramir Jones uncovered another historical horse story. (I think he belongs in Rohan, not Gondor--and I have been told to remove the Big Grin smilie here because it counts as an image along with the pictures. ) It was also a great delight to meet Anke Eissmann, the Tolkien illustrator. I've admired her work for several years and particularly like her depiction of female characters. In fact, I came home with prints of both her Luthien and Goldberry. The highlight for me was seeing the fanflic Born of Hope on the large screen and listening to a talk by the director/producer and one of the actors. Seeing the orc latex face mask was neat. I wish I had been able to get a picture of one of us wearing it! Or handling that bow with arrows! But I did get these shots. The usual suspects, a smaller fellowship this year: ![]() Hookbill, Estelyn, and Poison Ivy: ![]() Behold the Pink Wizard, with Poocheroth, and an evil, red-eyed Radagast! That's Faramir's ear on the left and Squatter's on the right. ![]()
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Thanks for putting up those photos, Bęthberry!
![]() I liked the stories about your sightseeing, including with Esty, before you both got to the 'moot. I also spent some time in the UK before the 'moot, including a couple of days in Oxford. I managed to be part of a group shown around Merton College on the Thursday, which I found very impressive, knowing among other things that it was where Tolkien spent the last part of his academic career. While I didn't go to Angie's lecture, I'll be very interested to read her book. Instead, I went to Dimitra Fimi's lecture on 'Tolkien and the Faries: Faith and Folklore'. (www.dimitrafimi.com) Perhaps you're right about me here: And Faramir Jones uncovered another historical horse story. (I think he belongs in Rohan, not Gondor--and I have been told to remove the Big Grin smilie here because it counts as an image along with the pictures. ) ![]() About Anke Eissmann: It was also a great delight to meet Anke Eissmann, the Tolkien illustrator. I've admired her work for several years and particularly like her depiction of female characters. In fact, I came home with prints of both her Luthien and Goldberry. I agree with you completely. I talked with her a little, enjoyed her company very much, and like you bought some of her prints. I concur about Born of Hope, which can be easily accessed here: www.bornofhope.com It was nice to see and hear the accounts by some of the main people involved in it. Another highlight for me, however, was the Middle-earth spoof weather forecast, which can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-Y0DY0zNzk The main reason I go to the Oxonmoots is the people, my fellow Tolkien fans, including fellow Downers, both those I've met before and those I'll meet for the first time. ![]() |
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