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JANUARY
2005 NEWS ARCHIVE
 January 1st and 2nd 2005
Day 12: Happy New Year!!
13 Days of Yule Contest Winner Announced!
Congratulations to Yesterday andToday's Winners:
January 1st Mikki Chandler (Tennessee): The Silmarillion, a Guiseppe Festa CD and Concert DVD and an autographed Ancanar promo card
January 2nd Kalliopi Dimitropoulou (Athens, Greece): A Guiseppe Festa CD and Concert DVD and an autographed Ancanar promo card
STAY TUNED TOMORROW THE 13 DAYS OF YULE CONCLUDES WHEN WE ANNOUNCE OUR GRAND PRIZE WINNER!!
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August 11th 2005
Lord of the Rings Symphony: New York, Beyond Bree Award Selections, GOTF 2006 and More!!
At long last we have begun to include our e-newsletter's online and the 1st one is here--chock full of great news updates!:
The Lord of the Rings Symphony: New York
Beyond Bree Award Selection: Anthony and Jessica chairs of The North East Tolkien Society
GOTF 2006 Programming Update
Jeff Murray Interview
Ancanar update
Look for future news updates in this format!!
Read the Heren Istarion Newsletter here
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| January 3rd 2005
To the Professor!!
13 Days of Yule Contest Grand Prize Winner Announced!
Congratulations to:
Paige Bennett (Pennsylvania): Tolkien Studies Volume 1, Dragons of Fantasy, ROTK Poster Set, a Heren Istarion T-shirt, a Guiseppe Festa CD and Concert DVD and an autographed Ancanar promo card
Happy Birthday Professor Tolkien!!-Today we tip our glass to the Master of Middle-earth, may his tales endure for generations to come!!-
We have a great 2005 line-up soon to be announced, Our Lord of the Rings 50th Anniversary Celebration, Lectures, publications, readings, and more!!
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January 4th 2005
Tolkien on Film:
Essays on
Peter Jackson’s
The Lord of the Rings
Now available for Pre-order from the Mythopoeic Press a new scholarly anthology addressing the various aspects of Peter Jackson's adaptation of the Lord of the Rings.
Read More
From Science and Theology News: "Tolkien's writing has religious ring" by Frederica Saylor
Anthony and Jessica will be presenting the
Root and Branch: Mysticism and Heroism in the works of JRR Tolkien
lecture series at Holy Family University in April 2005 stay tuned for details!!
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January 6th 2005
New 2005 Events added!!
Anthony and Jessica will be presenting the
Root and Branch: Mysticism and Heroism in the works of JRR Tolkien lecture series at Holy Family University in April 2005. Abstracts and details now added to our events page
Master Metalsmiths Joe Piela and Jenna Brocious of the Lonely Mountain Forge will be teaching a course on blacksmithing. More details on the events page
Become a Hobbit or Man-sized member of Heren Istarion before its too late...Read More
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January 7th 2005
Tolkien Biographer passes away
Humphrey
Carpenter, Tolkien Biographer and Editor of The Letters
of JRR Tolkien, passed away after a long-illness at the age
of 58 January 4th 2005. Read
More about the Life and works of Humphrey Carpenter
Thanks to Jan Long for the link
From
Mike Foster:"If you don't have $60 to buy your own
copy" of Tolkien Studies
Vol 1 -- Project MUSE Scholarly
Journals Online now has the an online version. Click
here to access Tolkien Studies Volume 1 edited by Michael
Drout, Verlyn Flieger, and Douglas Anderson
Learn
how you can help support The NY Tolkien Society
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January 26th 2005
Tolkien 2005, Call for Papers, New Chat Room
August 11th-15th 2005 The Tolkien Society UK , The Mythopoeic Society, "...and many other international societies world-wide have joined forces to stage a 5-day event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the complete publication of The Lord of the Rings. Anthony and Jessica will both be presenting papers and a panel discussion. See our events area for abstracts
"'Past Watchful Dragons': Fantasy and Faith in the World of C. S. Lewis," a conference to be held November 3-5, 2005 on the campus of Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. Click here for more details and for the online submission form for paper proposals.
The New York Tolkien Society now has its own IRC Chat area courtesy of The Tolkien Gateway To access the chat area visit one of these three links, IRC 1, IRC 2, IRC 3 and enter click on the #HerenIstarion channel. If you are interested in Tolkien-oriented online book discussions or hosting interviews and talks please email Anthony
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