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We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you a special broadcast tonight (Sunday, November 27) at 9:30PM EST: The Tolkien Professor!
News Flash! Special Call-in Show Tonight to Answer your Questions on the Mythgard Institute!
November 27, 2011 by 1 Comment
Rowling Publicly Confirms Ring Composition? Pretty Much
November 24, 2011 by 2 Comments
When the Deathly Hallows Part 2 DVD was released earlier this month, I received several emails with the strong recommendation that I buy a copy with the ‘extras’ because of Ms. Rowling’s revealing comments about her story circles. I’m not a movie-reader, I’d already seen Warner Brothers’ DH2 last summer, and, really, the DVD extras? I broke down, though, and bought a copy before the long drive to Virginia this week so my children who hadn’t yet seen the film could watch on the 24 hour ride from Oklahoma City to Front Royal.
That was a hit with them and last night we watched the three extras in our hosts’ lovely home. Sure enough, there were three moments in which Ms. Rowling made reference to something like the necessity in her story telling to complete circles, one signature of Ring Composition. [Read more…]
Pubcast Tonight on Middle Earth Radio
November 21, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Come over to Middle Earth Radio this evening at 10 as Travis Prinzi, Jenna St. Hillaire, and Rev. George dish about the lesser (and perhaps not so lesser) villians of the Hogwarts novels. I’ll be chiming in with my thoughts and some insights on the Breaking Dawn film, and the intrepid Dave Kale of Middle Earth Network will join us as well. Enjoy!
HogwartsProfessor Mailbag: The Super, the Silly, the Sublime
November 21, 2011 by 5 Comments
The mailbag at HogwartsProfessor has been especially heavy
the last few weeks and the variety of requests for help, notices of important events, and suggestions of topics for coverage here has been impressively diverse. How about a Post Potter Depression Clothing Line? George R. R. Martin’s Ice and Fire books? The link between the reading habits of Potter-philes and the greatest of all self-help mages, Dale Carnegie? A Canadian Hogwarts in revolt against its Slytherin-esque Ministry — a liberal Bishop? A skype HogPro interview with a Bogota teevee station — filmed at McDonalds? The forgotten ‘yellow’ stage of alchemy? Welcome to my world!
Before I head out for the east coast for my second trip to Virginia in less than a fortnight, I thought I’d empty out the bag with my e-responses for your comment and correction. Let’s start with the letter cum request from Pakistan that I have to suspect is a hoax, if I have no reason beyond cynicism for believing it is.
‘DA/AD’ Letter to C. S. Lewis: Hogwarts-Narnia Link?
November 19, 2011 by 8 Comments
I was caught off-guard at last week’s wonderful From Wands to Quills Harry Potter Conference at beautiful James Madison University when I learned that the two hours I thought I had to speak turned out to be forty minutes. Caught flat-footed, I was left with little choice but to abandon my original spider-outline on Hogwarts and the modern university and to share instead with friends in Harrisonburg, Virginia, a letter I found in the restroom of the Marion E. Wade Center in Wheaton, Illinois. I was there (in the Center, not the restroom) looking for evidence of C. S. Lewis’ hermetic artistry in the Wade collection of Inkling books, letters, and diaries.
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