Tag: Peter Jackson

MythCon 46: The Arthurian Mythos Part III: Attebery, Politics, and Worldviews

On By matthewrettinoIn Blog, MythCon 20152 Comments

Sunday 2 August 2015 was the date of my long-awaited presentation on Charles de Lint's multicultural utopia. Although this post will not include a copy of my presentation--that will be for next week, when I will discuss the final day of lectures at MythCon 46--I do include a significant panel involving the inestimable Brian Attebery, one of the key scholars …

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A Battle of Five Blogs — Why I would have filmed The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit in the North

On By matthewrettinoIn Essays7 Comments

With the release of The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies in theatres this week, some of my MythCon friends and I decided to participate in A Battle of 5 Blogs. We will all be posting about the movie, which concludes Peter Jackson's trilogy. Although I have heard rumours of Jackson's plans to make The …

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