Major feature at UK Daily Mail, with stills:

The trailer is awesome.

This was my favorite book of the Potter series.

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The producers of The Radio City LOTR Concert and the Official Fan Committee are pleased to present a weekend packed with LOTR happenings!
Scheduled events include:

• The official release of Doug Adams’ new book The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films
• Pre-concert talks and post-concert signing sessions with Howard Shore and Doug Adams
• Discussion with Tolkien linguist David Salo, who translated all choral lyrics for The Lord of the Rings scores
• Illustrator/artist Colleen Doran talks about her work
• The Hobbit films preview/discussion – Join fans for a chat!

More to be announced soon…

Catch updates on:

http://twitter.com/RadioCityLOTR

http://www.myspace.com/theradiocitylotrconcerts

(Actually, I will be lecturing on Tolkien illustration and art in general, but I’ll be showing a few pieces, including some new and unpublished works! So excited!!!)

Everyone on the planet is linking to this, but on the off chance you haven’t seen it I strongly encourage you to check out The Hunt For Gollum. This 40 minute fan film based on The Lord of the Rings is fantastic. It echoes the visual sensibility of the Peter Jackson films. It is a remarkable accomplishment.

No money is made from this film. It is pure fan love.

The film follows Aragorn as he tries to track down Gollum before he is caught by servants of the Dark Lord, who are also tracking Gollum in his search for The One Ring. Gollum will surely lead the Nazgul to the Shire if he is not stopped.

There are descriptions of these incidents in the book, and they are alluded to in the Peter Jackson film.

It screened smoothly on my computer, too, even in High Def. There was very little load time.

Hat tips from The One Ring and Christian Berntsen.

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This preview is so sneak peak, even potential publishers haven’t seen it yet!

The cover of Elf-Fin: Hyfus and Tilaweed by Jozef Szekeres and Julie Ditrich of Black Mermaid Productions is going into the portfolio to make the publisher rounds soon. Jozef and Julie have been posting bits and pieces of their epic-in-progress. Note the nice blurb there from Larry Marder!

Here’s the gorgeous cover preview!

Publishing authors I admire is as good a way as any to get a chance to work with them. I was making good money on A Distant Soil some years back, so why not share the love?

One of my favorite authors is Delia Sherman, whose new website features “The Tragedy of King Alexander the Stag”, a story originally published in A Distant Soil. The text is available for free at this link, and several of my illustrations are included. It’s a gorgeous tale, and I hope you will take the time to read it. The site design is easy on the eyes, too.

Here’s one illo from the story that isn’t at Delia’s new website.

Alas, the original scans were lost, but we’ve done our best to restore what we could here.

Check out these literate and romantic modern fantasy works by Delia Sherman.

And below the fold, info about an upcoming signing and reading with Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman:

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