Frodo Lives: Tolkien Con returns to Boston after 30 years
by S.I. Rosenbaum, thephoenix.com
March 7th 2011 5:23 PM
When the first Conference on Middle-Earth convened, in 1969, The Lord of the
Rings was a series of fantasy books written by a British professor and embraced
by hippies. Two years later, at the second conference, things were much the
same except that the hippies were doing harder drugs.
Then a decade went by.
Now, of course, LoTR is a series of fantasy books written by a British
professor and embraced by hippies ... AND a series of films shot in New Zealand
and embraced by fangirls. In fact, the amount of Aragorn/Legolas* slash written
since 2000 alone is probably at least a hundred times the wordcount of poor
J.R.R.'s total oevre, even counting the Silmarillion -- and that's a very
conservative estimate.
Seems like a perfect time to get the conference going again, right? The third
Conference on Middle-Earth is scheduled for March 26, at the Westford Regency
Inn (with a pre-conference "Downfall of Sauron" party at the Green Dragon on
March 25). As to the time gap, organizer and Big Name Fan Jan Howard Finder
(a/k/a Thain Peregrin Took II) says merely that a "chance meeting" brought the
idea back from wherever ideas go when no one gets off their ass to do them for
thirty years.
The conference will feature panels and papers both scholarly ("Gondor Needs No
King: Images of Kingship in the Ramayana and JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the
Rings") and squeeful ("Blondes Have More Fun!: Images of Legolas Greenleaf") as
well as the requisite crazy hobbit partying. Speak, friend, and enter
(registration is $65 and may be sold out.)
*This is bullshit, by the way. Legolas and Aragorn have zero chemistry in the
books. Legolas/Gimli 4-eva.
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