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Study Series 5, "The Open Songbook", is by Hintermass a new collaboration between Jon Brooks of The Advisory Circle and Tim Felton of Seeland on vocals and guitar. For the first time pop music comes to Ghost Box, in the form of rich, melancholy song underpinned with haunting analogue electronics.

Number 6 is "Le Train Fantôme" from Jonny Trunk, the head of re-issue label Trunk Records and natural ally of the world of Ghost Box. On this single Trunk plays with a wonderfully woolly palette of electronic sound reminiscent of grainy old stop motion animation soundtracks

No. 5 sounds verrrry interesting

March 31, 2011

:wtf:

what is that mothafucka

red trapdoor spider

March 31, 2011

shit waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaant

March 31, 2011

still sounds as SUPER FUCKING FRESH

March 30, 2011

lol, ryu nutsack

March 30, 2011

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March 26, 2011

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March 25, 2011

wat

March 23, 2011

I am pretty interested in The Hobbit movies, especially now that it has been announced that elements of The Silmarilion will be referenced that link The Hobbit to LoTR. Probably mostly from Akallabêth and Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age, focusing on Sauron and the rings but maybe not so much Morgoth, the Valar and the earlier parts that are less directly related.

Jackson kind of got himself in a pickle though, and it will be interesting to see how he deals with it:

His films take the position that Sauron is disembodied, showing him lose form when the ring is cut from his hand, and stating that he cannot yet regain form once he returns to Mordor but only exists as the red eye. The problem is that during the time of the Hobbit 'the Necromancer' that the wizards have to deal with, (which is revealed/retconned to be Sauron returned secretly) is said not only to have settled in Mirkwood, but also to have taken a form. The wizards think at first it might be a ringwraith, so it would seem perhaps he looked similar. The wizards find out it is Sauron and go confront him, but it just says they drive him out of Mirkwood and he flees to Mordor. It never says that they kill/disembody him again, (but for Jackson's continuity to work that is probably what will have to happen.) In the LoTR books it never says he is disembodied, and if the red eye is literal, it is probably a projection of Sauron's sorcery while he himself is in his tower, rather than the eye actually being Sauron himself.

Anyway, the other site I linked wasn't the one I was trying to find, but rather this. That site is really good and you can spend a lot of time dorking out on it.

Here is my best explanation of the background story behind LoTR. Major Silmarilion spoilers:

At the very beginning of time there is Ilúvatar, who is the supreme father God of this universe. He creates beings called the Valar, which are kind of a cross between Archangels and the Norse gods or the gods of Mt. Olympus. Ilúvatar has them all sing this song which weaves together the creation of the world, but one of them sings in discord and drowns out the others, and this is Melkor, who is kind of like the Satan of this universe. The world is created and the Valar settle into it, and Melkor's involvement escalates from impish rebellion to becoming Morgoth, the first dark lord. In addition to the Valar there are also lesser spirits created called the Maiar, of which Gandalf, Saruman and Sauron all are in their original forms. Gandalf and Sauruman don't show up until much later, when they are sent by the Valar to take the form of wizards to protect Middle-Earth. Sauron however was involved since the very start when Melkor took him as his second in command.

The rest of the Valar live in Valinor, which is the West land that the elves are sailing back to in LoTR. The elves are created and they are half-way between being like humans and half like the Maiar, being immortal and having natural magic, but still physical/humanoid. Some live in Middle Earth and some live in the west, and in the beginning they could go back and forth between them. Morgoth creates things like orcs, balrogs, dragons, and there are wars with the Elves. Sauron is sort of a general here. At the end of the first age The Valar battle Morgoth and imprison him outside the world in an abyss, and while there is peace for a while eventually Sauron steps into Morgoth's shoes and takes over.

During this time men are also created. Most of them are seduced by Morgoth/Sauron, but a group of them are loyal to Valinor and the Elves so they are given this city of Númenor, and are gifted with long life. (Aragorn/Strider comes from this line and that is why he was like 90 in LoTR but looked 40 ish.) Sauron in the second age was able to take the form of a fair handsome person, and went first to the elves, and later to men and dwarves as Annatar, the bringer of gifts. He helps the elves to create the rings of power, and the elves also used his knowledge to make three rings just for them, but Sauron didn't know about them. Sauron then goes to Mt. Doom to make the one ring, which is connected to the other rings and would allow Sauron to control the wearers, however the elves are able to sense Sauron and take off the rings. Sauron drops the act and goes to war with the elves to get the rings, getting most of them except the three.

Then Sauron goes to instead seduce and corrupt men again. He gives nine rings to nine men, who at first become powerful kings and sorcerers, but then are corrupted by the ring and become wraiths bound to Sauron, the black riders in LotR. Then in Númenor Sauron deceives the king and most of the people into jealousy against the Valar and the Elves, and gets them to worship Morgoth. Then he gets them to sail to war against the Valar, but Ilúvatar intervenes and the Earth swallows up not only the ships with the men, but Númenor also including Sauron. Sauron is immortal though so his spirit goes back to Mordor but now he can no longer take a fair or handsome form to deceive with, but instead takes the form of the Dark Lord we see in the battle scenes in Fellowship.

Some of the men from Númenor did not sail against Valinor, and among these is Isildur who settles and establishes Gondor. Gondor flourishes and Sauron regathers his strength in Mordor. Then we have the war we see in the flashback scenes in Fellowship, where finally Isildur cuts the ring from his hand and Sauron vanishes. Isildur takes the ring instead of destroying it, but it betrays him and he is killed by orcs, and the ring rests at the bottom of the river. Then years and years go by until we have the events of the Hobbit, where Smeagol finds the ring and it corrupts him and turns him into Gollum. Then Bilbo finds the ring and at first Gandalf thinks it is a common magic ring, but later learns it is Sauron's ring.

So then you are in the LoTR. The Hobbits go from fleeing from the wraiths with the ring to going to Mordor to destroy the ring and kill Sauron once and for all. Saruman is corrupted by Sauron and becomes his servant and is the main antagonist of the first two parts. The Two Towers is about Rohan vs Isengard, and Return of the King is about Gondor vs Mordor, and both are about Frodo, Sam and Gollum traveling to Mordor intercut with battles involving the other members of the Fellowship. Finally Frodo and Sam get to Mordor, the ring is destroyed and so is Sauron. Aragorn is made king of Gondor and the line of kings is restored. Frodo and Bilbo go with Gandalf to the West because they can never fully be rid of the effects of the ring (or Frodo's wound.)

and

not only does he have a from, but gandalf has seen him in person

March 21, 2011

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