FEBRUARY 2003 NEWS ARCHIVE February 20th, 2003 An announcement from the Tolkien Society UK: The Tolkien Society wishes to announce to the world Tolkien Reading Day! 25th March 2003 25th March is to be "Tolkien Reading Day", an event aimed at encouraging the use of Tolkien’s works in education and to get schoolteachers and library staff to participate in reading Tolkien to their classes and in their libraries. 25th March already has a significance to Tolkien’s readers, as it is the day of the Downfall of Sauron at the conclusion of the ‘War of the Ring’ in "The Lord of the Rings". EDUCATION PAGES LAUNCHED ON THE INTERNET Tied into the Tolkien Reading Day event is the recent completion of the Education Section within the Society’s website www.tolkiensociety.org/ed/index.html which Tolkien fans in education (pupils and teachers) can use to assist learning and teaching. The pages can be downloaded and printed off free of charge by educationalists. Please note the texts on these pages are copyright of the Tolkien Society and East Lothian Museums. The Education pages comprise a range of ideas for teachers of Citizenship at Key Stage one (infants) using "The Father Christmas Letters", to ideas for university lecturers working on Middle English texts like "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight". Some of the information has been developed from our responses to questions the Society has been sent by schoolchildren from around the world. Many other questions fit better in the Frequently Asked Questions section and so have been left where they are easy to find. Who can use it?
Everyone
Which age ranges
is it aimed at? 5-years old to postgraduate
level
Which educational
systems? Non-specific, English and Scottish
How much is transferable?
All of it, apart from the quotations from the English National
Curriculum, for which copyright permission is needed before ‘translating’
it to another educational system or language.
Press Contacts Tolkien Society
Publicity:
Ian Collier, 45 Caldew Maltings,
Bridge Lane, Carlisle, UK. e-mail publicity@tolkiensociety.orgTelephone 07974-987340
Tolkien Society North American Representative: Mike Foster, Rt. 5, Box 315,
Metamora IL 61548, USA. e-mail americas@tolkiensociety.orgTelephone (Work) 309-694-5349;
309-367-2772
Tolkien Society Australasian Representative: Michael Kennedy, New South
Wales, AUSTRALIAe-mail pacific@tolkiensociety.org
Any queries
regarding this Press Release should be addressed to:Ian
Collier, Publicity Officer, 45 Caldew Maltings, Bridge Lane, Carlisle,
CA2 5SW UK e-mail
publicity@tolkiensociety.org
February 15th 2003 BE
PART OF A WEB DOCUMENTARY ABOUT TOLKIEN FANS! February 6th 2003 On February 4th in the Post Standard of Syracuse NY an interesting article was published by journalist Sean Kirst entitled "War of the Ring" concerning the changes in The Two Towers. Our own Jan Galkowski was one of the Tolkienists interviewed for this piece. In December the ladies of Barnes and Noble Astor Place, Catherine and Laurie had to unfortunately cancel the Beowulf reading. Fortunately it has been rescheduled for February 21st 730pm in the Barnes and Noble Astor Place event space. We will be reading the Seamus Heaney version of the Anglo Saxon Epic, plus if time permits hopefully discussing the recent publication of Beowulf and the Critics by Professor Tolkien,edited by Professor Michael Drout, a recent guest signed to the Gathering of the Fellowship. ---Anthony and Jessica February 1st 2003 Today America lost the Space Shuttle Columbia and its crew. It is with deep sorrow and pain the Staff of Heren Istarion offers the surviving families its condolences. Also in our memories and prayers are those families who lost loved ones in the Challenger disaster 17 years ago this week. We all have our stories as to where we were then and now. Ultimately, the tales of the ones lost are what we should remember. ---The Staff of Heren Istarion |
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