Wings Over Arda: The First Age

2022-09-21T14:00:00Z

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| image=[[File:Wings Over Arda - logo.jpg|250px]]
| name=Wings Over Arda: The First Age
| director=Richard Hartshorn
| producer=Richard Hartshorn Philip Hartshorn
| writer='''Novel:''' [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] '''Screenplay:''' Richard Hartshorn
| narrator=
| starring=Richard Hartshorn Jennifer Wicks Philip Hartshorn
| music=Anna Pauline Kenzie [http://www.purevolume.com/andrewbusone Andrew Busone] [http://www.rhtt.net/ Red Heart the Ticker] Philip Hartshorn Laura McCoy [http://www.youtube.com/user/friendryfire Friendryfire]
| cinematography=Richard Hartshorn Philip Hartshorn Jack Durnin
| editing=Philip Hartshorn
| distributor=TBC
| released=TBC 2011
| runtime=63 minutes
| country=United States
| language=English
| budget=
| website=
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'''''Wings Over Arda: The First Age''''' is a [[:Category:Fan films|fan film]] made by Richard Hartshorn, which follows two stories: [[Tuor]] and [[Voronwë]]'s journey to [[Gondolin]], and [[Dior]]'s life in [[Doriath]] with possession of a [[Silmaril]]. It was filmed in the north-east United States in late 2010, and was released on [[26 February]] [[2011]].

==Description==
{{blockquote| ''Wings Over Arda: The First Age'' is a 2010 drama/fantasy film created and produced by Heart's Horn Imaginations. The script was written by Richard Hartshorn, adapted from J.R.R. Tolkien's ''The Silmarillion'' and ''Unfinished Tales'', with some material sourcing ''The Book(s) of Lost Tales'' and ''The Shaping of Middle-earth'', as well as the published poetry of Tolkien. The film follows two stories: the journeys of Tuor and Voronwë as they travel to Gondolin to warn Turgon of Morgoth's coming, as well as the struggles of Dior and his family as he attempts to renew the glory of Doriath with the power of the Silmaril passed to him by Beren. The film was shot on an out-of-pocket budget over a short period in late 2010.|Richard Hartshorn}}

==Cast==
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Role !! Actor
|-
| [[Tuor|Tuor Eladar]] || Richard Hartshorn
|-
| [[Voronwë]] || Jennifer Wicks
|-
| [[Dior]] || Philip Hartshorn
|-
| [[Idril|Idril Celebrindal]] || Stephanie Cromme
|-
| [[Caranthir|Caranthir the Dark]] || Samuel Aguirre
|-
| [[Elwing]] || Anna Pauline Kenzie
|-
| [[Celegorm|Celegorm the Fair]] || Juan Carlos Tapia
|-
| [[Curufin|Curufin the Crafty]] || Jonathan Duncan
|-
| [[Turgon|Turgon the Wise]] || Frank Massi
|-
| [[Nimloth of Doriath|Nimloth]] || Lynne Merrihew
|-
| [[Maeglin]] || Tom Hartnett
|-
| [[Ecthelion]] || Evan Tomlinson
|-
| [[Ulmo]] || Timothy Lake
|-
| [[Glorfindel]] || Ginger Anne London
|-
| [[Galdor (elf of Gondolin)|Galdor]] || Michela Dee
|-
| [[Fëanor]] || R. Walter Hartshorn
|-
| [[Sindar]] Lieutenant || Corey Harrington
|-
| [[Nandor|Green Elf]] Lord || Ian Lanier
|-
| [[Naugladur]] ([[Dwarves|Dwarf]] King) || Eric Oakes
|-
| Dwarf Bodyguard || Jack Durnin
|-
| Curufin's Wife || Michela Dee
|-
| Miscellaneous [[Noldor]] || Zack Fitzsimmons Kim Wicks Amelia Hoffman Nikki Notaro
|}

The cast list does not include the actors who play [[Beren]], [[Thingol|Elu Thingol]], unnamed [[Sindar]] and [[Easterlings]].

==Crew==
* Director: Richard Hartshorn
* Writer: Richard Hartshorn
* Editor: Philip Hartshorn
* Special Effects: Jack Durnin
* Costumes: Jennifer Wicks
* Choreography: Philip Hartshorn
* Camera: Jack Durnin
* Lighting: Stephanie Cromme
* Technician: Stephanie Cromme

==See also==

*[[:Category:Images from Wings Over Arda: The First Age|Images from ''Wings Over Arda: The First Age'']]

==External Links==
* Full Film: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwl8lhUWGnU]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRe6gFihSXY&feature=player_embedded/ Theatrical Trailer]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rocCNap3-08 '''Teaser Trailer''']
* [http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Wings-Over-Arda-The-First-Age-Film/165276596821890 Facebook Fan Page]

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Lay of Leithian continued

2022-08-13T23:10:15Z

162.158.62.238: Substantial rewrite by co-subject.

'''The Lay of Leithian continued''' is an attempt by an amateur named Geoff Zeiger to finish the [[Lay of Leithian]] by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]].

The remainder of this entry has been edited by Geoff Zeiger with some additional notes that may be of interest. New text starts at [[Lay of Leithian Canto XIV|Canto XIV]], in verse 4295, right where Tolkien abandoned the Lay, although some edits both minor and major were made to the existing text, especially in the early cantos where two "original" Tolkien versions exist, and I considered it desirable to reconcile the two versions. In most cases I consider the later text, which Christopher Tolkien labeled "The Lay of Leithian Recommenced," to be superior in the quality of its poetry, but because it is not fully consistent in its storyline with the older material, it was necessary to choose portions to be either omitted, edited with my own words, or spliced together from segments of new and old. In general, I chose the published Silmarillion text as the governing authority on questions of storyline, although this was not without exception. In the unfinished cantos there are also the Synopses as published in ''The Lays of Beleriand'', and on a few points these were allowed to take precedence for sake of consistency with the earlier verse.

I recently encountered a bit of text which may push me to take this up again. I've never been quite satisfied with the seam, so to speak. Another Inkling wrote of his own youthful endeavors "It all goes to pieces at exactly the point at which I really began to try and make poetry. Up to then, if my lines rhymed and scanned and got on with the story I asked no more. Now, I began to look for expressions which would not merely state but suggest. Of course I failed, lost my prosaic clarity, spluttered, gasped, and presently fell silent; but I had learned what writing means." (C.S. Lewis, ''Surprised by Joy'').

==External links==
*[http://luthien.awardspace.co.uk/leithian14.html The Lay of Leithian continued], Canto XIV
*[http://www.leithian.blogspot.com/ Old blog] (the text is not available)

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