Green Knight

How J.R.R. Tolkien's novels were inspired by Medieval poems of 'northern bravery'

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Friday, September 1, 2023

Tolkien flipped to a blank page on a student essay and scribbled, “in a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit”.

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  • Tolkien flipped to a blank page on a student essay and scribbled, “in a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit”.
  • From this doodle Tolkien went on to write one of the world’s most popular fantasy adventure series, The Lord of the Rings (1954).
  • His main work, however, was not as the writer of fantasies that made him so famous.
  • This can be seen in his love of fairy tales and in his drawings, which are almost all natural landscapes, with little architecture.

A mythology for England

    • Tolkien’s biographer, Humphrey Carpenter, argues that he was attempting to create “a mythology for England” through his fantasy fiction, by creating an imaginary world with its own languages, history, cultures and people.
    • He wanted to dedicate it “simply: to England: to my country”.

‘Northern courage’

    • Tolkien termed this kind of response to challenge “northern courage” in his 1936 essay, Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics.
    • It was “northern” because this type of courage is highly prevalent in the Old Norse sagas that Tolkien was so familiar with and which grew out of the northern Scandinavian countries between the 9th and 13th centuries.

Northern courage in Lord of the Rings

    • Northern courage is at work in The Lord of the Rings, when Gandalf confronts the Balrog on the bridge of Khazad-Dûm.
    • In a different way, the protagonists Bilbo and Frodo Baggins exhibit courage as they leave the comforts of the Shire to fulfil a greater heroic duty.
    • All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” The wizard’s words here are steeped in northern courage.
    • What makes Tolkien’s fantastical world so appealing is the recurrent suggestion that the courage manifested to defeat the big monsters in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings is the very same courage that can be found in hopeless situations of a more ordinary sort.

Cinedigm Acquires All North American Rights to the Sundance Film Festival 2023 Midnight Section Favorite

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Wednesday, April 26, 2023

LOS ANGELES, April 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cinedigm has acquired all North American rights to the buzzed-about horror-comedy Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2023 Midnight Section to rave reviews, recently played at Fright Fest at the Glasgow Film Festival and the Calgary Underground Film Festival and will continue its festival run at the Chattanooga Film Festival, the Dark Bridges Film Festival and Fantasia International. Cinedigm plans to release the film in theaters this fall followed by an exclusive launch on the Company's horror streaming service SCREAMBOX.

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  • The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2023 Midnight Section to rave reviews, recently played at Fright Fest at the Glasgow Film Festival and the Calgary Underground Film Festival and will continue its festival run at the Chattanooga Film Festival, the Dark Bridges Film Festival and Fantasia International.
  • Cinedigm plans to release the film in theaters this fall followed by an exclusive launch on the Company's horror streaming service SCREAMBOX.
  • Misunderstood by all who know him, Marcus J. Trillbury (Bowser), aka Onyx the Fortuitous, is struggling to find purpose in his soul-devouring side gig.
  • SCREAMBOX recently acquired the docuseries "RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop" and the documentary film "Hollywood Dreams and Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story".

Adobe Introduces Frame.io for Creative Cloud and Updates to After Effects and Premiere Pro

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Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced it is bringing Frame.ios industry-leading video collaboration platform to its millions of Creative Cloud customers and released updates to After Effects and Premiere Pro , including native M1 support for After Effects.

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  • Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced it is bringing Frame.ios industry-leading video collaboration platform to its millions of Creative Cloud customers and released updates to After Effects and Premiere Pro , including native M1 support for After Effects.
  • Starting today, Frame.io for Creative Cloud will be pre-installed with Premiere Pro and After Effects.
  • Creative Cloud customers can log into Frame.io from within Premiere Pro or After Effects using their Adobe ID.
  • Adobe and the Adobe logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe in the United States and/or other countries.

S'YA Concept and Caravan Studio Launch NFT Project on Award Wining Short Film Character Roborovski

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Monday, January 17, 2022

Set in the backdrop of Marvin's Pet Shop, a dejected Roborovski hamster goes off on a murderous rampage.

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  • Set in the backdrop of Marvin's Pet Shop, a dejected Roborovski hamster goes off on a murderous rampage.
  • Roborovski focuses on the exploits of the ninja hamster who fails to get adopted and is rejected by the other pets.
  • The Roborovski NFTs will give buyers exclusive access to view the short film, and the opportunity to earn royalties from the use of the artwork.
  • Moreover, NFT owners will have the right to vote on the future of the Roborovski project releases, such as film, game, television series, and metaverse development.