Issue 001 | 15 February 2021
Welcome to the first of a series of newsletters looking at the Tolkien-related news from the previous week and what is coming up in the week(s) ahead.
Free League’s The One Ring RPG
Free League’s Kickstarter for
the 2e of the One Ring Roleplaying Game, The One Ring: Roleplaying in J.R.R.
Tolkien’s Middle-earth, opened on Thursday 11 February 2021 and was fully
funded hitting the SEK 100,000 goal in 4 minutes! It currently stands at about £643,599
(SEK 7,410,169.94) and has hit 21 stretch goals including maps, dice,
adventures, guides and more.
There are 17 days to go, you can find more information here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1192053011/the-one-ring-roleplaying-game-second-edition/
There is a Q&A video with Free League here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeJmjPBkKYk
There is a demonstration of actual play of the current Alpha rules here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/911982911
Last Saturday (13 February 2021) the Tolkien Society hosted their first online Seminar of 2021 about the theme of “Twenty-first Century Receptions of Tolkien.” 11 papers on a diverse range of fascinating subjects were covered from Tolkien and trauma, storytelling for young learners, tabletop gaming and Tolkien’s grave as a site of memory. If you missed it, don’t worry, the event was recorded and available by the YouTube link below.
Tolkien Society Seminar #1
https://www.tolkiensociety.org/events/tolkien-society-seminar-2021-no-1/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-Q2lFuAgKE
The next seminar was announced as focusing “Tolkien and Diversity.” Details can be found on the link below.
Tolkien Society Seminar #2: 4-5
July 2021
LOTRO "Ill Omens" event
The annual Skirmish event pitting you against various Harbingers of the Dead has returned to Lord of the Rings Online with Update 28.4. More details can be found here and here. Running from Wednesday 10 February to Sunday 7 March 2021.
Sam’s Valentine gift
Each year Spanish Tolkien fans share a meme on St. Valentine’s Day. In Spanish the day is called San Valentín which became the meme "Sam va lentín" which means “Sam walks slowly.” This year actor Sean Astin, who played Samwise Gamgee in the Lord of the Rings films, showed a little love and got in on the act by posting the meme on his Twitter account.
https://twitter.com/SeanAstin/status/1360789753214377985
This is Sean’s text in Spanish:
Para los españoles y para todo el que quiera saber, el Sr. Frodo vivirá en mi corazón para siempre!
And this is Google translate’s English:
For the Spanish and for everyone who wants to know, Mr. Frodo will live in my heart forever!
On the meme itself, Sam is saying “Wait for me Mr Frodo!” on the meme. Poor Sam, walking slowly to Mordor…
Thanks to Maria for the information about this one!
Book release date moved – Nature of Middle-earth
Just to let you know “The Nature
of Middle-earth” by J.R.R. Tolkien and Carl F Hostetter release has moved from 24 June
to 2 September 2021.
I’ve updated the “Tolkien-related book releases – 2021 and beyond” page accordingly.
Last night (Sunday 14 February
2021) BBC Radio 4 aired “Christopher Lee on the Lord of the Rings” on their
film program, celebrating 20 years since the films started. Antonia Quirke revisits
her chat with Christopher Lee from 2001 and talks to the London Voices choir who
sang Elvish on the film soundtrack.
You can listen here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000s2rc
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