I heart Henry Jenkins. I was lukewarm even as I was writing the thesis, but Convergence Culture gives me a big happy. And also this last blog post:

Thompson is in the process of putting her finishing touches on a forthcoming book about Peter Jackson and the making of the Lord of the Rings trilogy called The Frodo Franchise. I was lucky enough to read an early draft of the book and found it an absolute treasure. Thompson had access to pretty much every key contributor to the LOTR films: she turns out to be a very engaging storyteller but also is able to put what happened into a much larger context of shifts in the contemporary film industry -- including some very good writing about the ways Jackson courted the fans of the original Tolkien novels and the forms of fan cultural production which have grown up around the franchise.

... I will be doing an interview with Thompson about the book once it is released in 2007. But she is already updating her account, using the blog to share some great insights into the announcement the other week that they will indeed be producing a film based on The Hobbit and that Peter Jackson is currently considering whether to direct it.

(My emphasis.) Whole post here.


Brief Hiro stuff at the end of that post.

Mary is watching BSG, so I'm using this icon. HEART.

Remember those LOTR:TTT engrish subtitles? Well I was taunting mary taunting mary, so I made some Supernatural ones. Which you can find ( Behind the cut. )


er, anyway.

I suppose I should make a post about this, as I suspect there are still LOTR people loitering about on the flist, keeping meek and silent as i rant about space cowboys and incest...

I’m listening to an audio stream of triple j’s breakfast program, as viggo is being interviewed this morning. no doubt they’ll have it in podcast format to download later today/tomorrow, if you’re reading this and you’ve missed it already.

But there you go. Australian LOTR fans, you have been duly alerted!

Healing
Lord of the Rings/Firefly crossover.

bwee, my brain is kinda one big melting pot at the moment. I like it.

in the midst of watching return of the king, i'm struck by the following:

in the first half of the film at least, it's totally
frodo = simon
sam = jayne
gollum = river.

TOTES. that look gollum gives sam after the whole "i am on your side, mister frodo!" and frodo takes gollum's hand? TOTALLY the look river gives jayne after simon is all doctory in ariel hospital. bwee ot3cakes.

alternatively, you could look at the sibling dynamic with
river = boromir
simon = faramir
where river comes back broken and simon's left all sad and responsible and never-quite-as-good-as-her. yep.

or fellowshippy - mal is totes aragorn/strider (no explanation necessary). and legolas and gimli? zoe and wash.