Denise Roper's Blog, page 29
June 6, 2010
Harry Potter on the MTV Movie Awards, Deathly Hallows R/Hr and H/G Spoilers
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince received the following nominations for the 2010 MTV Movie Awards:
Best Female Performance – Emma Watson was nominated. Kristen Stewart won.
Best Male Performance – Daniel Radcliffe was nominated. Winner: Robert Pattinson.
Global Superstar – Daniel Radcliffe was nominated. Robert Pattinson won.
Best Movie - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was nominated. New Moon was the winner. The acceptance speech was mostly F-words. No class whatsoever, like most o...
Harry Potter on the MTV Movie Awards, Deathly Hallows R/Hr Spoilers
Tonight on the MTV Movie Awards, Harry Potter fans will find out if any of the following nominations for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will result in a win. This year's nominees are:
Best Villain – Tom Felton
Best Female Performance – Emma Watson. Winner: Kristen Stewart.
Best Male Performance – Daniel Radcliffe
Global Superstar – Daniel Radcliffe
Best Movie – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
And of course, we are all awaiting for the sneak preview of Harry Potter and the Deathly...
June 5, 2010
New Deathly Hallows Calendar Photos: Spoiler Alert!
New photos from the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One movie calendars can be seen at www.rupertgrint.net, www.mugglenet.com, and http://community.livejournal.com/dhmoviepics among other places. When I read about this on Twitter, I had to check it out. Firstly, I think Emma Watson looks much more like Hermione with the long hair that she has in these pictures:
I love the little Ron/Hermione moments implied in the photos below. Hopefully we will get lots of romantic moments between t...
The Power of Love and Self-Sacrifice in Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings
This is another excerpt from The Lord of the Hallows: Christian Symbolism and Themes in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter for you to enjoy. I think the popularity of both The Lord of the Rings and of the Harry Potter series is due in part to the loving relationships between the heroic characters and the loyalty that these brave friends have for each other.
Both in Christianity and in Harry Potter's world self-sacrificial love has the power to defeat the Curse of Death.
In the first...
June 3, 2010
MythCon 41 (Post Updated June 3, 2010)
The Mythopoeic Society will be celebrating their 41st annual conference at the Crowne Plaza Suites Hotel in Dallas, Texas from July 9-12, 2010. I am delighted to announce that I will be attending this conference for the first time, and I will be presenting a paper that I wrote entitled "The Lord of the Horcruxes: The Immortal Soul and the Eternal War Between Good and Evil in the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien and J. K. Rowling." Here is an excerpt from my paper:
The ancient...
Weasley Is Our King!
This is a little excerpt from my book, The Lord of the Hallows: Christian Symbolism and Themes in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter. I hope that all of my Ron-loving friends in Harry Potter fandom will enjoy this segment. My book contains an explanation of the lion, unicorn, and stag as symbols of Christ, and explains how these symbols are used in both the Harry Potter series and also in The Chronicles of Narnia. At the end of the chapter "Harry Potter and the Bestiary of Christ," I made a b...
May 31, 2010
News from Middle-Earth, Hogwarts, and Narnia
Here's some news from J. R. R. Tolkien, J. K. Rowling, and C. S. Lewis fandom that may be of interest to those who follow this blog.
According to www.theonering.net, Guillermo del Toro has resigned as director of the two films based on Tolkien's The Hobbit. He may be replaced by Peter Jackson, the Oscar-winning director of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. I am a huge fan of Jackson's work on the trilogy, so I am hoping that this bodes well forThe Hobbit film adaptation.
I recently finished...
May 29, 2010
Con du Lac Schedule
The schedule of events for Con du Lac in Lake Charles, LA is posted at www.condulac.net/website/index.php/schedule.html.
On Saturday, June 12 I'll be previewing my Infinitus 2010 presentation "Sneaking Past the Watchful Dragons: Christian Themes in Harry Potter and the Chronicles of Narnia" from 12:00-1:00 p.m.
On Sunday, June 13, I'll be giving a presentation on J. K. Rowling and J. R. R. Tolkien that is very similar to the one I just gave at ImagiCon. This presentation will also be from...
May 27, 2010
New Bookmarks for Infinitus 2010
I am in the process of designing a new bookmark to give away to the fans at Infinitus 2010. It will have the the following information:
Title: The Lord of the Hallows: Christian Symbolism and Themes in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter
by Denise Roper
ISBN: 978-1-4327-4112-9
Tagline: A must-read for fans of Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, and The Chronicles of Narnia.
www.outskirtspress.com/thelordofthehallows
Please visit the author's blog at http://phoenixweasley.wordpress.com.
Praise for The...
May 24, 2010
ImagiCon Convention Report
ImagiCon was an enjoyable multi-fandom science fiction and fantasy convention that I attended in Birmingham, Alabama on Friday, May 21 through Sunday, May 23, 2010. This is a description of the highlights of my ImagiCon experience.
Friday, May 21. Upon arriving at the McWane Science Center in downtown Birmingham, I met Hugo-award winning science fiction author Timothy Zahn, best known for his novels set in the Star Wars universe. He was very friendly, kind, humble, and polite; I would...
