Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Are you sure about Glorfindel? I seem to remember a discussion way back, probably in the old Hobbit Hole, that this was just a reuse of a name, not the same character. Isn't it true that Tolkien talks about this matter in his letters?
See the article here! For those who don't know, the Hugo is one of the most revered Science fiction/fantasy awards, last year's... wrongness notwithstanding. It is voted for every year by the attendees of the WorldCon - that's ordinary geeks, not weird actor types like the Oscars.
Oh, sorry, this is Tolkien related stuff, but Connie Willis is just such a great author... go read her To Say Nothing of the Dog. Trust me, if you have a working sense of humor and like well written stories, you'll like it.
Anyway, LotR is probably a shoo-in for best movie.... the competition is Harry Potter, Monsters Inc, Shrek, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Although Harry Potter 4 did win for best novel last year, that was because of a very weak field, in which the other four nominees were A. books no one had ever heard of or B. books which are in the middle of a fantasy series and should have won anyway but I think the Hugo people are afraid of Robert Jordan syndrome.
So, check it out if you feel like it... this makes my day, it's so much better than the Oscars because this is fan stuff, not snooty Hollywood people stuff.
Yes it was in the old Hole, I remember it well. Caused some trouble when I suggested that Tolkien screwed up and had to write himself out of a corner :) I'll see what I can find out in The Letters about this.
I was wrong...I wasn't around for a while. I forgot about the department appreciation luncheon. Then they gave us the rest of the afternoon off. I'm off to trim the verge before the neighbors start squawking!
But then Legolas says "AIR-agorn, son of AIR-athorn...you owe him your allegiance."
I've always said "AIR-agorn...what about you?
I have no idea, but I like it!
Thank you for your excellent recommendations. I am copying and pasting them into an Email to myself so I'll have them at hand (same for HairoftheDog's suggestions). Interestingly, I figured that Silmarillion should be next, but didn't want to go with my uneducated guess. I came to that conclusion after reading Sam and Frodo's discussion at the end of The Two Towers about the tales and adventures of the Silmarillion, how they were darker and more desperate adventures than what Frodo and Sam were experiencing, and yet they got through their "tale" and in doing so, passed on the light of Earendil for Sam and Frodo to use in the dark places.
Thanks. You folks are the best.
Anyway, LotR was a shoo-in for nominee, but even so, it says something. The award doesn't get chosen until July or August, but I'll let you know whether it wins...
The only real resource we have to answer this question is in The Peoples of Middle-earth (The History of Middle-earth Vol. 12): XIII Last Writings, Glorfindel. Christopher Tolkien dates the notes he gives here at 1972, the year before his father's death.I don't have that book...sorry :(
Basically, in the middle of everything else that has been going on, my printer started p*ssing me off this morning and I couldn't print one page without it jamming. I wanted to huck it through the window. So I went to Office Depot and ordered the best office-grade all-in one printer-fax-scanner-copier they had. $500. It is too big and too nice for the little rinky-dink stand I had my old printer on, so I bought a new credenza to put it on. Which meant I had to move my desk and my computer, which meant I had to disconnect everything. I just got it all cleaned behind and moved and put back together. I still can't print, because the printer wont be here till the 23rd, but when it gets here I will be ready!
Hope you all had fun.
I am so glad LOTR got Hugo nominations--although it doesn't surprise me. If they hadn't, there might have been war, lol. ;)
Thought you all might be interested in this article from Cinematographer Magazine, about the different methods they used in the movie. I thought the discussion about lighting was particularly interesting, and they even mention the lights in Galadriel's eyes that we were talking about the other day:
American Cinematographer Magazine
Here's the bit about Galadriel's eyes:
To achieve a glowing, luminescent quality for the Elvish Queen Galadriel (Cate Blanchett), Lesnie used soft light exposed at key. Lesnie also extended Jackson's predilection for eyelights. "Peter likes to see eyelights, and to create that effect we usually used 'wands,' which were two 2-foot Kino Flo tubes taped together. In close quarters, these wands are ideal and virtually instantaneous tools; they have four intensity levels, they're cool and very flexible, and they're perfect for handholding. For the character of Galadriel, however, I wanted to create a special eyelight, because Tolkien describes her by saying 'no sign of age was upon her, unless it were in the depths of her eyes; for these were keen as lances in the starlight and yet profound, the wells of deep memory.' In order to achieve that quality, we created the 'Galadrilight,' which was simply a rig of hundreds of Christmas-tree lights mounted next to the camera. This technique placed many reflections in Cate's eyes, creating a wonderful otherworldliness. Her skin is so luminescent that sometimes I didn't have to use any fill, because the Galadrilight was doing the work."
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