November 7th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, mewlips, poem, sound recording, tolkien from korg20000bc @ The Hog's Head
I have been talking about this poem with Travis on and off for the last couple of years.
I thought it’d be a great poem for Halloween but I missed my opportunity during October.
I thought I’d put it up anyway because I think it’s great and I recently got my hands on the sound recording of [...]
Continue reading → My belated Halloween contribution- Tolkien’s The Mewlips
November 5th, 2008 — , C.S. Lewis, Gryffindor Common Room, Imagination, dawkins, meaning, truth from korg20000bc @ The Hog's Head
I found an excellent CS Lewis quote today that fits our recent discussions very well:
“Reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”
Discuss.
p.s. Did it find it’s way into your book, Travis?
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Around the Common Room: Prince Caspian [...]
October 31st, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room from korg20000bc @ The Hog's Head
Halloween is always a special day for me now.
Here in Australia we don’t celebrate Halloween… really… at all. But we do get a lot of imported American television that tells us we should.
Anyway, you might remember last year my twins were born on the 31st. Well, they’re one now and a constant joy to us… [...]
September 12th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, Lovecraft, daniel radcliffe naked, harrison, mp3 from korg20000bc @ The Hog's Head
B.J. Harrison has just put his latest up his latest reading and, joy of joys, it is The Music of Erich Zann by HP Lovecraft.
Download it and listen.
Find it HERE
Continue reading → Get a head start on Lovecraft for October
September 7th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, fantasy, poll, top 100 from korg20000bc @ The Hog's Head
By Matthew
A huge poll to further our recent discussions on fantasy and great or classic literature.
RULES:
#Do not vote for anything unless you have read it- even if you have heard it is great or you like other works from that author
#Don’t vote for something even if you have read it and like it.
#Don’t vote for [...]
September 5th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room from korg20000bc @ The Hog's Head
By Matthew
The poll is on the right.
To keep Red Rocker happy, please select what you least like to meet from the available options.
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Continue reading → New Poll: What would you least like to meet down a dark alley
August 29th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, fun, short, story from korg20000bc @ The Hog's Head
By Matthew
A local radio station I listen to recently ran a competition for the best six word story.
I thought it might be a good exercise to get our creative juices flowing and who knows, maybe Travis will judge the best and start handing out more prizes.
I hear that he has a huge cache of ill-gotten [...]
August 28th, 2008 — , Daniel Radcliffe, Gryffindor Common Room, child actors, fate, poll, typecast from korg20000bc @ The Hog's Head
By Matthew
What’s to become of the fella?
The poll is there on the right side bar.
August 6th, 2008 — , Dr. Horrible, Goonies, Goonies II, Gryffindor Common Room from korg20000bc @ The Hog's Head
By Matthew
Here’s a mixed bag of stuff.
Harry Potter as a Japanese TV show.
Japanese Harry Potter
Cool balloon - even the dark side needs to recreate!
Goonies II anyone?
And if you haven’t seen it already, you should watch Joss Whedon’s Dr Horrible.
Act 1
Act 2
Act 3
July 28th, 2008 — , Dumbledore, Gambon, Half Blood Prince, Harry Potter, Snape, The Movies, movie, riddle, tom from korg20000bc @ The Hog's Head
By Matthew
Let us know what you reckon about the new Trailer.
The poll is right there on the right, scroll down a little, there you go!
Continue reading → New Poll: What does the Half-Blood Prince movie trailer do for you?
July 19th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room from korg20000bc @ The Hog's Head
By Matthew
Please do yourself a very big service and download B.J. Harrison’s reading of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles while it is still available.
It is in six parts and I have been waiting eagerly each week for the next episode. I love to listen to it while having a daily constitutional. [...]
Continue reading → The Hound of the Baskervilles on The Classic Tales
June 11th, 2008 — , Aslan, Gryffindor Common Room, Narnia, cartoons, cowardly lion from korg20000bc @ The Hog's Head
By Matthew
Red Rocker made the following comment on another post:
Returning to Matthew’s point, the depiction of Aslan - and thereby of Christianity - as defanged, lame and uninspiring: I blame not the movie makers but how Lewis positioned his Christ figure. Making him a lion reduces the possibility of being able to relate to him [...]
Related StoresContinue reading → Heavens to Murgatroid or Aslan vs. Snagglepuss
June 3rd, 2008 — , Aslan, Gryffindor Common Room, Harry Potter, Rowling, caspian, hell, lewis, pain from korg20000bc @ The Hog's Head
By Matthew
I’ve been reading through Lewis’ The Problem of Pain and the bells started to ring when reading the chapter on Hell.
Our Lord speaks of Hell under three symbols: first, that of punishment; second, that of destruction; and thirdly, that of privation, exclusion, or banishment into “the darkness outside”…
…Destruction, we should naturally assume, means the [...]
May 29th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, Invisibility Cloak, Magic, Mirror of Erised, ford anglia, item, marauder's map, pensive, poll, put-outer, time turner from korg20000bc @ The Hog's Head
By Matthew
There’s plenty of items in the Harry Potter stories that I’d love to get my hands on.
Oh, what fun could be had.
Please vote and comment on what you selected.
Continue reading → New Poll: What magic artifact was the coolest?
May 25th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room from korg20000bc @ The Hog's Head
By Matthew
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/harry-potter-actor-killed-in-brawl/2008/05/25/1211653818508.html
Sad.
Continue reading → This just in - Harry Potter actor killed in brawl
May 20th, 2008 — , BBC, Gryffindor Common Room, Harry Potter, Hitchiker's, Jeff Wayne, Journey to the centre of the earth, Michael Horden, Narnia, Poe, Rick Wakeman, Stephen Fry, Vulcan, Wells, nimoy, sparticus, star trek, war of the worlds from korg20000bc @ The Hog's Head
by Matthew
I’ve been listening to my BBC LOTR and have been enjoying the adaption. Its interesting to me how different people have made the story fit into their production’s available time. Listening to this has made me more tolerant of changes that need to be made to fit the story in. I [...]
May 16th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room from korg20000bc @ The Hog's Head
By Matthew
In my head there are a lot of TV themes and starting sequences of shows I watch while growing up. Some of these have really stuck with me and I remember watching certain shows with the emotions that the intro’s set up.
I’d like to share some of these with you and would love [...]
May 16th, 2008 — , BBC, Gryffindor Common Room, british, gandalf, lord of the rings, tolkien from korg20000bc @ The Hog's Head
By Matthew
I’ve just had a good experience.
When I was in my early teens a friend of mine who was a Tolkien fan told me about a Lord of the Rings series on the radio. He’d taped a few episodes and I loved listening to them. It was dramitised with great voice actors like [...]
May 4th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room, aberforth, angel, beer, buffy, cantina, drinking, fantasy, hog's head, inn, leaky cauldron, poll, sci-fi, star trek, star wars, tankard, tavern, vincent price from korg20000bc @ The Hog's Head
By Matthew
The watering hole plays a strong part in the adventures of many of our fictional heroes and heroines and I’d like to have a real-life poke around in some of them. The inns, that is.
Please comment with your choice and why you’d like to go there… or not.
Continue reading → New Poll: In which fictional drinking establishment would you most like to imbibe
April 29th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room from korg20000bc @ The Hog's Head
By Matthew
I was listening to an astronomy programme on the radio the other day, while training, and they were discussing bright stars. Imaging my surprise when during my 48th push-up the speaker said to look for Regulus- the brightest star in the constellation of Leo.
Should this have put us on the track of Regulus [...]
April 8th, 2008 — , Characters, Gryffindor, Gryffindor Common Room, Hufflepuff, James Potter, Ravenclaw, Slytherin, hogwats founders, lily evans, poll from korg20000bc @ The Hog's Head
By Matthew
If there are others you’d like to read about please add them to the discussion.
Continue reading → New Poll: Which secondary character would you like Rowling to write about most?
March 30th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room from korg20000bc @ The Hog's Head
By Matthew
Do you ever imagine the Theme from Shaft playing when you enter a room?
Me neither, but it’d be cool.
I’ve been thinking about music or songs that fit various Harry Potter characters and I’ve made a list and checked it twice.
The songs I’ve put with various characters are not an attempt to find an exact [...]
March 4th, 2008 — , Gryffindor Common Room from korg20000bc @ The Hog's Head: A Pub for Potter
By Matthew
Gary Gygax the co-creator of the original Dungeons & Dragons has just died. D&D was one of the things that orignally developed my interest in the Fantasy genre. I remember there was a great reading list of Fantasy source material in the back of the 1974 edition that I had and I [...]
February 22nd, 2008 — from korg20000bc @ The Hog's Head: A Pub for Potter
By Matthew
The Classic Tales Podcast! B.J. Harrison has recently uploaded his reading of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Joy of joys.
I was first exposed to this excellent work when a friend gave me a copy with illustrations by Gustave Doré. These pieces of art [...]
February 18th, 2008 — , Cthulhu, Gryffindor Common Room from korg20000bc @ The Hog's Head: A Pub for Potter
By Matthew
I saw this on someone’s tag line on a completely unrelated blog.
“Cthulhu in ‘08. This time, why vote for a lesser evil?”
I laughed hard.
February 10th, 2008 — , 162851, Gryffindor Common Room, bilbo, cast, casting, dragon, elrond, gandalf, hobbit, smaug, thorin, tolkien from korg20000bc @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head Pubcast - A Harry Potter Blog!
By Matthew
No.
Nothing has been confirmed about cast for the movie(s) but I thought we may have some fun before things are nailed down.
Time to cut loose and never mind the expense. Cast whomever you wish for the following roles.
February 5th, 2008 — , Characters, Dumbledore, Gryffindor Common Room, Harry, Harry Potter, Remus Lupin, Rowling, Snape, canon, evil, good, hermione, james, lily, neville, opinion, poll from korg20000bc @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head Pubcast - A Harry Potter Blog!
By Matthew
Results:
What upcoming movie are you most looking forward to?
The Half-Blood Prince (49%)
Prince Caspian (15%)
The Hobbit (12%)
The Dark Knight (10%)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (6%)
X-Files 2 (2%)
The Screwtape Letters (2%)
Avatar (Last Airbender- M. Night Shaymalan) (2%)
Avatar (James Cameron director) (1%)
Halo (Directed by Peter Jackson) (1%)
Iron Man (0%)
Total Votes: 164
No surprises [...]
Continue reading → Poll Results and New Poll (Shades of Good)
January 4th, 2008 — Gryffindor Common Room from korg20000bc @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head PubCast - A Harry Potter Blog!
By Matthew
What upcoming movie are you most looking forward to?
Options on the sidebar.
EDIT : Thanks Reyhan for the “Avatar” clarification. Poll has been clarified.
January 1st, 2008 — Gryffindor Common Room from korg20000bc @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head PubCast - A Harry Potter Blog!
By Matthew
Have you noticed how, recently, nearly every discussion point seems to bog down into “Shut up Rowling!” or “Hey Rowling, say whatever you want about your stories. Solidarity sister!”?
Think about how you read the books for the first time…
OK.
Now think about some of Rowling’s recent comments…
Have you been moved from your original position or [...]
December 8th, 2007 — Gryffindor Common Room from korg20000bc @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head PubCast - A Harry Potter Blog!
By Matthew
JK Rowling has just added some new and interesting information to her website.
Follow these links
Last four months
Documentary
Hary and Voldemort in the forest
What was that on King’s Cross Station?
November 26th, 2007 — Gryffindor Common Room from korg20000bc @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head PubCast - A Harry Potter Blog!
By Matthew
I’ve been asking myself if there are any parts of Rowling’s writing that are, to me, particularly good or at least noteworthy from her usual.
The passages that are a change from Harry’s first person perspective always seemed refreshing to me. From off the top of my head these are found in the start [...]
November 21st, 2007 — Gryffindor Common Room from korg20000bc @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head PubCast - A Harry Potter Blog!
By Matthew
We’ve been having some interesting discussions about influences on Rowling’s writing and the on-going debacle with the Lexicon so I thought it might be worth our while to have a look at other influences that people have noticed (1, 2,). Odd how Warner Bros. doesn’t have an issue with anything that they [...]
October 25th, 2007 — Gryffindor Common Room from korg20000bc @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head PubCast - A Harry Potter Blog!
How will the recent Dumbledore revelation effect your reading of the series?
See it on the side bar.
Matthew
October 23rd, 2007 — Gryffindor Common Room from korg20000bc @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head PubCast - A Harry Potter Blog!
By Matthew
Week 4 of the Sword of Gryffindor Lovecraft Month and we’re discussing the story Pickman’s Model. If you haven’t read any Lovecraft yet and haven’t been part of the discussion this is a good story to get in on it. If you need a brief respite from the Dumbledore declaration you’ll find [...]
October 16th, 2007 — Gryffindor Common Room from korg20000bc @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head PubCast
By Matthew
The conversation on this story has already started and it’ll be quite worth your while to read this story and share your ideas and thoughts.
When I first read this story, about 15 years ago, it seemed to sit in my subconcious. Since that time I have been reminded of it by other authors’ [...]
October 8th, 2007 — Gryffindor Common Room from korg20000bc @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head PubCast
By Matthew
Week two and we’ve gone to Innsmouth for a look about. One thing you’ll notice is that the clergy are looking decidedly unwholesome. They’ve even gone in for worshipping Dagon (Fish-god in Hebrew?). Have we got a Samson bring this temple down?
We seem to be on a theme of the sea being a hiding [...]
October 1st, 2007 — Gryffindor Common Room from korg20000bc @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head PubCast
By Matthew
Welcome to the first of the HP Lovecraft story we’ll be looking at- The Call of Cthulhu. The story that bears the name of Lovecraft’s mythos.
To assist our discussions here are some questions to stimulate our thoughts.
The Forbidden Forest and the New Orleans swamp. What are some of the similarities between the [...]
Related StoresContinue reading → The Call of the Giant Squid… oops Cthulhu
September 24th, 2007 — Gryffindor Common Room from korg20000bc @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head PubCast
By Matthew
There’s not much happening in the HP universe this week so I thought I’d make up my own.
The Rugby World Cup is happening at the moment and the titanic struggle will rival the Quidditch World Cup in Goblet of fire. Unlike Quidditch, Ireland is looking wobbly and Bulgaria didn’t even qualify (Ranked 91st [...]
September 16th, 2007 — Gryffindor Common Room from korg20000bc @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head PubCast
By Matthew
Gryffindor’s sword… Did you ever wonder why such a puissant (presumably) wizard as Godric Gryffindor needed a sword? I’m sure he was a great fighting wizard and isn’t his dueling prowess mentioned in the stories somewhere? Why the sword? Is it like the Terminator using firearms when it could have destroyed [...]
September 9th, 2007 — Gryffindor Common Room from korg20000bc @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head PubCast
By Matthew
Over the past week there has been excellent discussion happening at the various posts here at Sword of Gryffindor. The topics have been varied and I’d like to reflect this in today’s links.
George MacDonald’s name has cropped up at various times, let’s take a look at the man.
Despite some obvious errors, this is [...]
September 2nd, 2007 — Gryffindor Common Room from korg20000bc @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head PubCast
By Matthew
Have you noticed the difference in the Harry Potter ‘verse since the release of Deathly Hallows? Where have all the speculators gone? Have all their questions been answered or have they all turned thirty and gone on the carousel?
We still have a strong core of regular commenters and plenty of thought-provoking posts. [...]
August 26th, 2007 — Gryffindor Common Room from korg20000bc @ Sword of Gryffindor :: Hog's Head PubCast
by Matthew
Hello and welcome to all.
Due to his expanded authorial duties (congratulations Travis!) Travis has asked me to become a moderator of Sword of Gryffindor. What an honour!
I will be trying to maintain the high standards and tone that Travis has established here. So, hopefully, you will not even realise that there has [...]