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News, Views, and Miscellaneous from the Middle-earth Minutes Podcast
With the news that Radagast The Brown will have a role in the upcoming Hobbit films, and as he is believed by many to have been a part of the White Council in the Third Age, I found myself in a meeting with the 3 figure-heads of the newly launched Dunedain Radio on the Middle-earth Network, Mark, Candace and John last night. I would like to announce to listeners of Middle-earth Minutes that I have been accepted into their council as the 4th member of the management team!
This is very exciting news in our Hobbit hole, as our whole family loves the good work that is being done there: An Internet radio station dedicated to Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and the Inklings as a whole, and other Fantasy genre related content.
There are so many amazing things that are happing, and in the works, right now that it would be too much to type. I will give a vague heads-up, though: We were joined by a 5th person on the call, a person that all serious fans of Tolkien's writings will be very interested in. This person will have a very special announcement to be made exclusively on the Middle-earth Network. Stay tuned for the date and time.
On another note, Micah and I plan on recording the next episode of Middle-earth Minutes this weekend. We'll see you then.
We have had this blog at Posterous for a while now and had, in the past, used it under the name Middle-earth Seconds. It was the "little brother" of Middle-earth Minutes where we'd post short audio clips (crudely recorded on an iPod) of This Day In Middle-earth. Well, with the most recent changes in the MEM podcast this seemed like the perfect place to keep an all encompassing blog - where we can post thoughts and ideas about all things Tolkien, or announcements, pictures, etc. from the MEM studio.
"Why not just post these things on the Middle-earth Minutes website?", you may ask. We'd like to keep that as strictly the home base of the podcast. That way new visitors that land on the main page for the 1st time will see that each post includes audio from the latest MEM podcast. If they enjoy what they hear enough to be a regular visitor, and even friend us on the Middle-earth Minutes Facebook page or follow us on Twitter, they will then have the chance to see these posts from the blog. These will (if all works as it should) be disseminated to the aforementioned two services.
So the new name of this site is Middle-earth Minutes Blog, and we hope that you find some enjoyment from it. For the most part we will not be re-blogging news stories; we do that on the Twitter account. Though we may offer commentary on the stories that we don't cover on the podcast. We have some fun ideas, though.
Until next time - Test over.