Middle-earth Talk Radio Show Episode 0039 November 13 2011

Duration: 1:13:18 (1 hour, 13 minutes, 18 seconds)

Format: 32 kbps MP3 or 128 kbps MP3

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Opening Music

Title: Treebeard's Song

Band: The Tolkien Ensemble with Christopher Lee

Album: At Dawn in Rivendell

More Information:

http://tolkienensemble.net/

http://www.tolkien-music.com

Topics

• Tolkien Moot 2012 announcement coming soon (changes)
• Terry Pratchett (Discworld) any his Alzheimer's Disease
  
• Good thing Michael is not Astin Kutcher
• Middle-earth Radio Facebook account: middleearthradio
• Tolkien Scholars Facebook account: tolkienscholars
  
• Tolkien Scholars Twitter account: tolkienscholars
• If Tolkien Were Black
• African-American fantasy writers
• N. K. Jemisin
• Cultures and unavoidable bias that seeps into everything
• White European bias
  
• Druedain / Woses
• White male biased in most fantasy fiction
• Mists of Avalon
• Difficulty writing female characters in fantasy novels
• What do female readers think of Stephen R. Donaldson's interpretation of the female character(s) in Mirror of Her Dreams, etc?
• Andre Norton's female protagonists
  
• Michael's involvement in Compuserve online writers forum
• Localized interpretations of "castle"
• Understanding your audience in correctly communicating and overcoming the readers' biases in interpretation
  
• "Real-time" interaction of characters in a story with the author/artist.
• Inland Empire Tolkien Society Discussion
• Dead Gentlemen's "The Gamers"
• The Gamers 2 - Dorkness Rising
• The Guardians of the Flame
• Dragonlance series
• Michael's review of the movie The Immortals
• Bard the Bowman in The Hobbit movie
• Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn
• John Rhys-Davies
• Sean Beam ongoing joke about "Sharp" and so "Still Sharp"
  
• Filming in Takaka Hill, New Zealand
  
• Ian McKellan's Blog, Gandalf as General
• Christopher Lee with musicians
• KYRS FM
• Rehtaeh at Tolkien Moot 2010
• Tolkien Moot Videos and Audio
• Rehtaeh's Facebook Page:
  
• Rehtaeh's website
• Professor Chris Seeman will be special guest for episode #40, Sunday, November 20, 2011
• Other Minds Magazine
• Iron Crown Enterprises - Middle-earth Role Playing
• Decipher Inc. - Lord of the Rings RPG
• The Tolkien Music List
• Upcoming interviews of other Tolkien musicians coming soon from others too.
• MerpCon website
  

References:

Middle-earth Radio Facebook account: http://www.facebook.com/middleearthradio

Tolkien Scholars Facebook account: http://www.facebook.com/tolkienscholars

Tolkien Scholars Twitter account: http://twitter.com/tolkienscholars

http://nkjemisin.com/

Inland Empire Tolkien Society - http://www.tolkienscholars.org

Dead Gentlement Productions - The Gamers - http://deadgentlemen.com/video/2010/02/07/the-gamers-part-3/

The Gamers 2, Dorkness Rising - http://deadgentlemen.com/video/2009/10/20/the-gamers-dorkness-rising-%e2%80%93%e2%80%93-part-01/

The Guardians of the Flame Wikipedia entry - 

Dragonlance -

http://www.windsorstar.com/travel/Tolkien+meets+Shakespeare+comic+form/5649223/story.html

http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/11/12/2612372/hollywood-notes-working-on-new.html

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/5958161/Hobbits-set-up-camp-on-Takaka-Hill

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/5955410/Hobbits-set-up-camp-on-Takaka-Hill

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Takaka+Hill,+New+Zealand&hl=en&ll=-41.022416,172.917686&spn=0.00289,0.006196&sll=-41.28503,173.280487&sspn=0.045792,0.099134&vpsrc=6&hnear=Takaka+Hill,+Tasman,+New+Zealand&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=-41.022416,172.917686&panoid=sdwJjCtT_wVl6sc70iE3-g&cbp=12,187.02,,0,18.07

http://www.outdoorstyles.co.nz/canaandowns/09

http://www.art.com/products/p13553155-sa-i2515464/jochen-schlenker-old-beech-tree-canaan-downs-south-island-new-zealand-pacific.htm

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/36229217.jpg

http://nkjemisin.com/2011/11/if-tolkien-were/#comments

http://www.stephenrdonaldson.com/background/publications/mordant0.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardians_of_the_Flame

http://www.mckellen.com/cinema/hobbit-movie/111113.htm

KYRS FM Radio - http://www.kyrs.org

Tolkien Moot Website: http://www.tolkienmoot.org

http://www.merpcon.com

Closing Music

Title: Ever Eve

Band: Rehtaeh (Heather Downing)

Album: Awakened

More Information:

http://www.rehtaehmusic.com

http://www.tolkien-music.com