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Is Australian boat manufacturing car-eening for fall
by Mark Rothfield on 22 Jun 2013
The government must support our world-class boat builders as it does the car industry. Maritimo Marine
How do you start a small business? These days, you buy a big Australian manufacturing firm and simply wait for a while …In recent weeks the car world has been floored by news that Ford plans to close its manufacturing plants while General Motors is aiming to cut workers' wages to avoid or delay, an inevitable head-on crash.
Should the boating industry be concerned? Absolutely!
The car industry has consistently been a decade ahead of boat manufacturing in its R&D, construction, advertising and retailing. It enjoys a larger market, fewer local rivals, superior economies of scale and deeper pockets courtesy of their global parents.
They also have the undying support of a Labor Government that's thrown millions of dollars at the problem, with Minister of Innovation and Industry Greg Combet insisting that the ability for local manufacturing to design and build a motor vehicle from the ground up is vital for the economy.
Well guess what? We have the ability to design and build boats from the keel up, to the pinnacle of international standards, but if history is any indication the government cares not one whit.
The prestige Australian built marques Riviera, Maritimo, Quintrex, Signature and Seawind, among others, have all struggled in recent years, slicing their workforces without raising so much as an eyebrow at federal level. We're dispensable it seems.
So if an international conglomerate like Ford can't build a family car in Australia, how the heck can we continue to build boats? The same market threats apply – a flood of imports built at a fraction of the labour cost, a dollar that for too long refused to be tempered, and nervous cattle. Perhaps the recent drop in the Australian dollar might help a little but it will have to keep falling to make any significant difference.
The Seawind solution was to shut shop and relocate.
'Probably five years ago it was apparent that Australia had a limited future as a manufacturer,' owner Richard Ward says. 'We have a strong domestic market but we're a long way from the world market – our boats are horrendously expensive to ship.'
Ward investigated options in China and Thailand but delayed a decision at his increasing peril. Then, in 2010, Seawind acquired Corsair Marine, which was building Farrier trimarans in Vietnam, and the die was cast.
'It was sad, this process of closing our Wollongong factory, and unbelievably difficult,' Ward adds. 'People see that you're selling out, that you don't care about your workers … but it's a short-sighted and mistaken way of looking at it.
'Governments should be helping us to become a global company. That's what we've done but entirely on our own. Seawind is 100 per cent Australian owned, we will continue doing all the design here, and the profits will come back to Australia. The alternative is to die.'
The Boating Industries Alliance Australia, the national peak body for the recreational and light commercial boating industry in Australia is working hard to explain the value of the Australian boat building industry to politicians, we hope they listen.
If not, the spectre of an Australian boat show without an Australian boat, once unthinkable looms as large as the prospect of a Bathurst race without a Falcon or Commodore.
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A Catholic priest busted for allegedly dealing crystal meth was suspended after church officials discovered he was a cross-dresser who was having sex in the rectory at Bridgeport's St. Augustine Cathedral.
Monsignor Kevin Wallin was relieved of his duties in May, but the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport had continued to pay him a stipend until his Jan. 3 arrest -- a day he was planning to fly to London on vacation.
Now dubbed "Msgr. Meth" by some, Wallin seemed to live a life that easily could have been ripped from the script of "Breaking Bad," the popular AMC series about a high school chemistry teacher turned crystal methamphetamine producer. At one point, Wallin was selling upwards of $9,000 of meth a week, according to his indictment.
In his post-priesthood, Wallin, 61, bought an adult specialty and video store in North Haven called Land of Oz that sells sex toys and X-rated DVDs. Investigators believe the shop helped him launder thousands of dollars in weekly profits.
Wallin's arrest sent shock waves through the Bridgeport and Danbury communities where he was known as a charismatic speaker who was involved in many charitable activities, and who enjoyed Broadway musicals and show tunes. He often attended musicals with his mentor, former N.Y. Cardinal Edward Egan and parishioners.
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Wallin, who is represented by a federal public defender, is charged with possession with intent to distribute and distribution of methamphetamine. He has been detained without bond pending an arraignment next week.
Diocese officials stressed that they had no information that Wallin was selling drugs when he was pastor of St. Augustine's Cathedral or when he previously served as pastor of St. Peter Parish.
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She was pretty enough to be a high-priced call girl, but he didn't think she was. Vince Mason stood back and surreptitiously watched the woman seated at table twenty-nine in the restaurant where he waited tables. She was a beauty, with deep, chocolate-brown eyes and full, red lips. Stylish, short brown hair framed her face. He usually preferred longer hair on a woman, but in this case, the style suited her. There wasn't one thing he'd change about this woman. Catherine Reynolds.
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The A's, Red Sox, and Indians have suffered their most from their designated "hitters." Eric Chavez ranks the best among the three with a .236/.279/.345 line. The other two, David Ortiz and Travis Hafner, have combined for a .180/.273/.324 mark, not much better than what those teams would get if they let their pitchers hit. Normally players who produce these numbers would sit on the bench, but these three players will make a combined $36 million in 2010. While continued poor production might force Ortiz and Chavez from the lineup since their contracts expire after this season, Hafner has two years and $28.75 million left on his deal. The Indians will probably give him every chance to revert to his former self.
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In a Giving Game, participants learn about a few pre-selected charities, think about and discuss their relative merits, and choose which charity will get a real donation (which is typically sponsored by an outside party).
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A university professor organizes a Giving Game for an hour-long session of an ethics course with 15 students. The Life You Can Save sponsors this Giving Game, providing $200 for the students to give to the charity the students deem best at the end of the session. The professor spends ten minutes introducing the three eligible charities: Give Directly (cash grants to families living in extreme poverty), Innovations for Poverty Action (research to identify and implement effective anti-poverty programs), and a local food bank.
The students then engage in a vigorous discussion about which charity they should donate to, and why. The conversation covers topics such as cost-effectiveness, evidence of impact, addressing root causes or merely symptoms, and prioritization of means and ends (or just "goals").
The students vote at the end of the hour, and the winning charity is awarded the $200 donation. The Giving Game concludes with a brief recap discussion and the circulation of a signup sheet for a mailing list providing updates about effective giving opportunities.
A campus group that promotes effective giving facilitates a Giving Game to spread awareness of their message and find new members. The group sets up a table in a busy area and invites passersby to come over. They explain that anyone can give $1 (provided by The Life You Can Save) to their choice of Seva (which fights preventable blindness in the developing world) or the Against Malaria Foundation.
The organizers provide a few key bullet points describing each charity's work, and most interactions last only a minute or two. Some interactions last longer, however, when participants ask for more information about the charities or the group itself. Rather than simply trying to cycle through as many participants as possible, the group focuses on giving an "elevator pitch" about their work to those who seem interested, collecting email addresses for their mailing list, and publicizing an upcoming event.
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How did you first learn about giving to charity?
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THE first of the winter storms had begun just after Thanksgiving. For a little over three weeks the rain pounded the Oregon coast, driven inland in violent gusts, until the very ground seemed in danger of being swallowed up by the spreading wetness. The water ran everywhere: down the eaves of every building in the tiny hamlet of Waldport, Oregon; down the drain-spouts, down the narrow blacktopped roads, into the corrugated drainage culverts, down to the thundering seas, themselves alive with vaporing wisps of pelleting spray.
The wind off the ocean topped out around thirty knots, shoving the drops sideways, working the frigid water inside jacket collars, sleeves, down shirt fronts, anywhere it could find bare flesh. The temperature was only in the low forties, but the wind made it seem much colder. Aubrey Von Mader walked with his burly shoulders hunched, ducking the hurtling drops, the way one does in a land that gets nearly fifty inches of rain each year. Either you learned to live with the rain and the cold on the coast, or you moved; it was as simple as that.
Von Mader picked his way through the small town, crossing the glistening highway until he came to the entrance to the Bayview Mobile Home Park, an assortment of tidy doublewides arrayed across a sandspit that jutted into Waldport's pond-like Alsea Bay, separating the bay from a tidal estuary called Lint Slough. He had been visiting a friend on the ocean side of the highway, and now he decided to visit his mother and father in the mobile home park before returning to his own place in Newport, about fifteen miles north on the coast.
As he turned into the mobile home's driveway, Von Mader realized that his parents' van wasn't in its usual spot; he guessed that they were visiting someone. Taking a last drag on the cigarette he'd been smoking, Von Mader went to the rear yard of the house, where the waters of the slough lapped along a barricade of rip-rap placed there to protect the spit from the tidal action. Von Mader made ready to throw his cigarette down on the glistening grass, then decided to pitch it into the slough. As he looked over the edge, Von Mader's blood ran cold: floating there in the tidal current was the still body of a very young child, clad only in underwear.
Von Mader's mind went blank. He stood staring at the thin little figure, bobbing gently in the water. His first conscious thought was of a fishing boat that had capsized offshore the week before, claiming the lives of four men. The inevitable eventuality of fishermen lost at sea was one of the most sorrowful aspects of life on the coast; every year brought another toll of those who wrested their living from the sea. But in almost the same instant Von Mader knew that this boy could not have come from the lost vessel: no one would dress their child merely in underwear while out at sea in the middle of winter. No, this was something far more sickening—Von Mader's instinct told him he was looking at the awful result of something horribly evil.
After some time had passed—Von Mader wasn't sure if it was ten seconds or a lifetime—a voice inside his head told him to go inside and call someone. Without knowing quite how he got there, Von Mader was at the telephone, dialing 911. He went out to the front of the mobile home to wait. About ten minutes later, he saw the first of what would eventually be a parade of emergency vehicles pull into the narrow blacktop lane that led into the mobile home park.
Alighting from the Lincoln County Sheriff's patrol car was Deputy Brady Endicott. Close behind was a second deputy, Lieutenant Ed Stallard. Von Mader took Stallard and Endicott around to the back of the mobile home. The little boy's body was beginning to float away, and Von Mader realized that the tide was running out. Endicott pulled on a pair of rubber gloves, and waded into the water to pull the small form onto the bank. He and Stallard put the boy on a tarp on the concrete sidewalk that ran near the bank. Von Mader went inside to get away from the awful scene. He'd seen death before, but this—this was more than he could handle.
Later, after all the emergency vehicles had left—after the small body had been taken away by the hearse from Bateman's, the local funeral home—two detectives asked to talk to Von Mader. They wanted to know if he knew who the little boy was. Von Mader said he'd never seen him before. There were "marks" on the body that caused them concern, the detectives said, and Von Mader knew the detectives believed that the boy had been murdered. The detectives walked through the mobile home, looking at things. One spotted a water pistol—perhaps the sort of thing a small boy might have, or be interested in. Von Mader explained that his mother used the squirt gun to keep a pet cat housebroken. He knew the detectives were just doing their job—that sometimes, the one who discovers the body is also the one who needs to be investigated. It didn't bother Von Mader. What bothered him was the face of the little dead boy. Von Mader knew he'd be seeing that in his mind for a long time to come.
That afternoon, after everyone had gone, Von Mader thought it was probably best that he had been the one who found the boy. The mobile home park had a number of elderly residents, and for some, the gruesome sight might have been the last thing they ever witnessed.
That evening, Von Mader walked back to his friend's house on the other side of the highway. He decided to stay the night there because his parents' mobile home suddenly seemed threatening. The image of his horrifying discovery burned into his thoughts, and it wouldn't go away—not then, and probably not ever.
Almost as soon as he saw the body of the boy floating in the slough, Ed Stallard knew that he had a big problem. It was the underwear. Like Von Mader, Stallard knew that that meant the boy almost certainly had not come from a wrecked fishing boat, or even a car that had run off a road somewhere. The only reason a child would be wearing virtually no clothing in the middle of the wet, rainy season that was winter on the Oregon coast had to be foul play.
That was such a ridiculous phrase: "foul play," as if murder was some sort of game with rules. It was a Britishism that had crept into the American idiom, a bit of typical understatement holding that homicide simply wasn't at all sporting, old chap; still, there it was, and even the news media now routinely used the phrase, as in "foul play is [or is not] suspected." Stallard knew that under the present circumstances, it would only be a matter of hours before the news of Von Mader's discovery disseminated throughout the coast community, and probably with the obligatory reference to "foul play." But that wasn't necessarily bad. The news reports could be useful—especially if the reports helped the police figure out who the child had been.
Already Stallard knew the body wasn't that of a local boy. None of the neighbors living near the park were missing any children of the young victim's age and description. It seemed most likely that the boy's body had been brought to the slough and dumped there into the water after he had been killed elsewhere. That meant the child's home could be just about anywhere. Although Lincoln County had a permanent resident population of about 45,000, the county's status as a tourist destination meant that as many as 50,000 more people might be in the area at any given moment.
Soon after he had recovered the body from the slough, Stallard made the telephone calls necessary to activate the Lincoln County Major Crimes Team. This was the most efficient way of dealing with difficult crimes in a mostly rural area, because it drew on investigative expertise from the three largest incorporated cities of the county—Newport, Toledo, and Lincoln City—as well as the county sheriff's department and the Oregon State Police. Not for Lincoln County was the sort of turf-war jealousy that often bedeviled rival departments in larger jurisdictions; Lincoln County simply couldn't afford not to use all of its relatively sparse resources as effectively as possible.
As it happened, the major crimes team was already at work when Stallard called it together; a fatal stabbing earlier that same day at Lincoln City had required the team's convening. Now Stallard arranged to have detectives from the team meet at the Waldport town hall for an initial briefing on the dead child. Because the body had been found in Waldport, which contracted with the county for police services, the sheriff's department would be the lead investigative agency. Stallard assigned the case to one of his department's detectives, Patricia Miller. Miller, known as Trish, would be the inquiry's primary investigator until the case was solved, and after that, if the case ever went to court.
The immediate challenge faced by the major crime team was identifying the small victim. Stallard guessed the boy had been somewhere between 4 and 6 years old; he appeared to be healthy and well-nourished. It wasn't very likely that a boy like that would go unmissed. The boy had to have a parent or parents someplace. The canvass of the neighborhood had yielded no results, so that meant the boy probably had come into the county from outside. Stallard's worst fear was that they might be dealing with a murderous pedophile—someone who had kidnaped a child from some distant location, and then had driven through Lincoln County and dumped the victim there. In that case, the perpetrator could have been several states away by the time the boy had been discovered.
The best estimate—preliminary, and just from a visual inspection—was that the boy had been in the water from eight to ten hours. Because Von Mader had first seen the body just before 11 A.M, that seemed to indicate that it had been put into the slough sometime between 1 and 3 in the morning. There were no obvious injuries—no gunshots, no stab wounds—so the official cause and manner of death would have to be determined by an autopsy. It was always possible that the little boy had drowned, the result of some sort of so-far unreported accident. But Stallard and the others had seen enough to allow them to guess at the true cause: probable asphyxiation, the medical people would say—manner of death, homicide. In other words, it seemed likely that the little boy had been smothered to death, if he hadn't been deliberately drowned.
Stallard put in a call to the Coast Guard, and asked them to send up a helicopter to search the area from the air; he had some other deputies searching the banks of the slough from the water. Maybe the wider searching would turn up some sort of explanation. Maybe there was a wrecked car under the water someplace nearby; maybe someone had missed a turn in the darkness, in the rain and wind, and so had careened, unseen, into the depths. But Stallard didn't really think so; he had, in fact, a very, very bad feeling about this . . .
THE air and water searches turned up nothing of consequence, and by the following day Stallard and Miller were not much further along. True, the autopsy was under way in Portland, and Stallard expected that to clearly show that the little boy had been murdered, and exactly how. But, for the time being, Stallard kept these thoughts to himself. The main objective at this point, he and Miller agreed, was to get the boy identified. Once that was done, then they could begin to make progress on how he had come to be in the slough in his underwear. To try to surmount this problem, Stallard briefed the local news media at a press conference attended by Sheriff John O'Brien and Lincoln County District Attorney Bernice Barnett on Thursday, December 20, 2001.
The boy in the slough, Stallard told the assembled news media, had been about four feet tall, and weighed about fifty pounds. He'd had short-cropped, light brown hair.
"The child was in very good health, was well-groomed," Stallard said. "We believe that he had been well taken care of and at some point, somebody is going to realize that this child is missing, a relative or someone, and hopefully contact us. We've done a complete canvass of all the residences in the area. Nobody reported seeing this child. We've been in contact with the schools, both public and private, and he does not appear, at this point, to be local."
Because of this, Stallard added, the Lincoln County Major Crimes Team had been in contact with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which had promised to produce a computerized drawing of what the boy had probably looked like when alive. In addition, he said, they'd sent teletypes to all Western states describing the boy, as well as the Oregon State Police Missing Children Clearing house. So far they'd found no reports of any missing children that matched the little boy's description.
Sudden, tragic death was something many on the coast had come to accept as part of life—as inevitable as the turn of the seasons, as the fog that lay close in along the valley floors, as the danger of the currents over the bars at each of the small harbors' mouths. In this week before Christmas, the coast found itself in mourning once more, this time for the four fishermen whose boat had capsized, and who were lost at sea. The month before that, two teenagers viewing tidal pools were swept out to sea by a rogue wave, and were lost. Now, even as the community reeled from those tragedies, there was the unknown little boy, lost somehow, somewhere, abandoned to the vicissitudes of the tides. The fact that no one seemed to know him didn't make his death less important than the others; it was just that there was only so much grief that one could bear, and that had to be husbanded for the sorrows still to come.
The coast had always been a place apart from the rest of Oregon, separated by the heavily timbered Coast Range from the rich farmland of the Willamette Valley to the east. It was among the last areas of the state to get reliable transportation; until the first north–south road along the coast was finally built in the 1920s, the only official "highway" in the area was the beach—rocks, bogs and high tides notwithstanding. In the beginning, back in the late 1860s, the primary means of reaching the Pacific shore from the rest of the state was by rivers: the Coos, the Umpqua, the Siuslaw, the Alsea, the Yaquina, the Siletz, and others, most of them originating high on the western slopes of the Coast Range, gathering waters as they rolled westward down to the sea. In all, the Oregon coast stretched nearly 350 miles from the California border to Astoria, at the mouth of the Columbia River. The shore was dotted with small harbors, from Coos Bay on the south central coast, and north, to Reedsport, Florence, Waldport, Newport, and Depoe Bay (billing itself as "the Smallest Harbor in the World").


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The very short film trailer of Memleketim, a short film divided in three acts.
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Located within a mile (2 km) of AVA Community Art Center, Howard Johnson Inn Gillette is within 2 miles (3 km) of Bicentennial Park. This 74-room motel welcomes guests with conveniences like free breakfast, free in-room WiFi, and free self parking. Rockpile Museum and Campbell County Convention and Visitors Bureau are also close to this Gillette motel.
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8 Minestrone Soups to Make Right Nowby Sofia Lyons in Recipes, March 2nd, 2016
Minestrone, that warming soup traditionally packed with vegetables, beans and pasta, can be a hearty appetizer to any meal or a filling entree on its own. Try the classic recipe with kidney beans and crushed tomatoes, or check out one of our favorite twists on this comforting dish, featuring gnocchi, ground beef or dill for added flavor.
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Yesterday I did an interview with the wonderful Kiwi broadcaster Jim Mora on his show "Afternoons" on Radio New Zealand. We talked about J.R.R. Tolkien as an example of a terrific father (despite being a writer!); the notion of "Orcery;" the pleasures of baking bread and making mushroom soup; and the significance of Thorin Oakenshield's deathbed speech (spoiler alert!) Have a listen.
Radio New Zealand Interview
Interview With The Tolkien Library
This week I was interviewed by Tolkien expert Peter Collier, creator of The Tolkien Library.
Tolkien Library. When people talk about your book the word 'fun' is always used in one way or another. Is the book meant to be fun?
Noble. Oh, yes! Definitely. I think that life should be lived with good humor and fun. Hobbits are really fun people. They're always making jokes, even in the most dire circumstances. Merry and Pippin are a couple of comedians. One of the things I do in my book is encourage people to make their own music—"Sing Like a Hobbit" is one of the chapters.
To read the rest of the interview, click here.
Hobbit Amour
The French translation of The Wisdom of the Shire (La Sagesse de la Comté) is now available in France. Here is the introduction that I wrote for the Fleuve Noir edition.
When I found out that my little book about Hobbits was going to be translated into French, I let out a shout of joy! I have such strong emotions associated with France and especially Paris—a city where I lived during a pivotal time in my youth; a magical city I explored with the wide-eyed wonder of a kid who'd grown up in the bleak, culture-starved suburbs of the Pacific Northwest during the seventies and eighties.
I had gone to France at the age of twenty, during the Bicentennial of the French Revolution, to live with my girlfriend, Kendra, who was working there as a fashion model. And I felt like Bilbo leaving the boring Shire for the first time and entering the enchanted world of the Elves in Rivendell.
Kendra and I had met and fallen in love two years before at a funky liberal arts college in Olympia, Washington (Nirvana played one of their first concerts ever in the theatre building on our campus the same month we started dating). Kendra and I instantly bonded over our love of J.R.R. Tolkien. Every night during our freshman year I read to her out loud from The Lord of the Rings.
After getting discovered by a famous New York modeling agency, Kendra dropped out of college and moved to Paris. And soon, lured by the siren song of my beloved as well as the allure of that famous city, I followed after her. I was like some bewitched Man in Middle-earth chasing after an elusive Elf-maid (echoes of the tale of Beren and Lúthien from Tolkien's The Silmarillion).
In Paris we had a little apartment a block away from Luxembourg Gardens. It was a cozy, cheerful place decorated with nothing more than our stacks of books. We didn't have a TV, so at night we danced to the music of Prince and the Beatles playing on our cassette deck, or sometimes we simply sat in our room and talked about life, drinking tea. Our one-room apartment was our own little Hobbit-hole on Rue Crébillon.
Nearly every day we walked to the nearby bustling market and bought fresh food and vegetables for our meals. We ate enough delicious baguettes to fill a large bakery, and always covered our bread with liberal amounts of thick French butter (a practice that Bilbo, who shuddered at the notion of "butter scraped over too much bread," would have greatly approved). At night we went on long strolls, kissing by the Fontaine Saint-Sulpice, or holding hands as we stood on the Pont des Arts, watching the boats go by.
Whenever Kendra had to fly off for runway shows in Milan or magazine shoots in exotic locales in Africa, I stayed in Paris, teaching myself how to be a writer, studying art with a passion, haunting bookstores like Shakespeare and Company, and hanging out in the iconic café La Palette. There, ensconced in the snug wood-paneled room, I fortified myself with strong cups of coffee served to me by an avuncular waiter named Jean, scribbling in my Moleskin notebooks, while occasionally taking breaks for furious bouts of chess with my best friend, Murat; or comparing notes with his sister Elif for the novels we were both fervently writing.
Kendra and I eventually left France and went on to have new adventures. But many of the simple joys of life—things I talk about in The Wisdom of the Shire—we learned during our sojourn in your country. For you French, if you didn't already know it, are a lot like Hobbits: connoisseurs of fine food and drink; great walkers and lovers of nature; a people who value deep friendship over superficiality and who are intense conversationalists. The kind of people who, like Merry and Pippin, burst into happy song at bars! And just like the Shire-folk you live in a society built upon the majestic principle of egalitarianism.
Bilbo wrote in one of his songs, "The Road goes ever on and on/Down from the door where it began." Sometimes that great Road of life leads to someplace as magical as France, and those of us who have been lucky enough to have lived there keep that place in our hearts forever.
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Revisiting "The Hobbit" is like sifting through the deep piles of loot in a dragon's hoard: there's always something new to discover about J.R.R. Tolkien and his classic. Here are 10 secrets concerning the author and his tale that you, good lover of Middle-earth, might have overlooked.
Interview With My Italian Translator
I'm very excited that my new series The Warrior Trilogy just got purchased by an Italian publisher and will be published in that country next year. Last year I did an interview with the Italian translator of my book The Wisdom of the Shire (called La Saggezza della Contea in Italian). The new paperback of The Wisdom of the Shire hits bookstores October 29th from St. Martin's Griffin in the US. Here is my interview with author, translator and Tolkien scholar Giovanni Agnoloni.
Hi Giovanni. I was really excited when I found out that my book, The Wisdom of the Shire, was sold to an Italian publishing house. But I had no idea that a Tolkien scholar like you would be doing the translation (called La Saggezza della Contea in Italian). How did you first discover J.R.R. Tolkien?
Hi, Noble! First of all, let me thank you for hosting me on your website, which makes me incredibly happy. I was so glad to be offered the opportunity of translating your brilliant essay into Italian. This proved to be a way for me to recover awareness of the very mind-and-soul processes I had gone through, by now 15 years ago, when I'd first encountered J.R.R. Tolkien and started reading The Lord of the Rings. As a previous "roleplayer" (of Dungeons & Dragons, most of all), as a teenager, I already was somehow involved in this fantasy-world "halo", but the approach to Tolkien's masterwork was so stunning to me that I couldn't help beginning to write my first essay even before completing the reading of the book (which anyway happened shortly afterwards, since I "devoured" it J ). The Hobbit and The Silmarillion followed.
Which Tolkien character do you relate to the most?
There are several, indeed. Mostly Aragorn, for the example of humility that he shows in patiently waiting for his due-to-happen (but never obvious) "return" to the throne of Gondor, and for the model of faithfulness to love he constantly shows for Arwen. And then Treebeard, for his philosophic synthesis of insight and simplicity. And Frodo, because he doesn't step back when he has to face the Shadow.
Could you please talk a little about your essay "Tolkien as a Benchmark of Comparative Literature – Middle-earth in Our World"?
This was a contribution to the 2005 international convention held in Birmingham, UK, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the publication of "The Lord of the Rings", therefore now it appears in the book on the Conference's Proceedings edited by Sarah Wells for the Tolkien Society (http://www.tolkiensociety.org/2005/proceedings/). It briefly goes through the main contents of my first Tolkien-focussed essay, Letteratura del fantastico ("Fantasic Literature", Spazio Tre, Milan, Rome 2004) and through some of those of my (at that time still in process) second book Nuova letteratura fantasy ("New Fantasy Literature") (Eumeswil, 2010). The basic point is the liberating concept of fantasy as emerging from Tolkien's essay On Fairy-Stories, precisely because it is a key-factor to a reappraisal of the beauty of the real world, and a means to recover awareness of who we are, what we intimately desire and how to make it real, albeit respecting the others' rights and legitimate aspirations. This premise reverberates onto a most rich range of psychological archetypes and universal themes, such as love, friendship, courage, respect and contemplation of Nature and so on, that are equally emphasized by Tolkien and, although through slightly different emotional vibrations, by other master of universal literature, like Homer, Sappho, Virgil, Dante Alighieri, Ludovico Ariosto, Hermann Hesse and Gabriel García Márquez. By so reflecting, we may gain access to a new vision of Comparative Literature, which is not so much based on philological derivations and assonances, but on a common heritage of emotions and archetypal experiences and visions. Literature can thus prove to be a way to regain possession of the "magic of reality", I mean, of that subtle, energetic/spiritual dimension that is the "Middle-earth of our world", as I like to call it.
What were some of the challenges of translating my book into Italian?
Well, I have to say (and not just to sound kind) that it was mostly a pleasure to do this work. Some "trouble" I met in finding the most up-to-date names of places and characters, according to the most recent Italian editions of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and the exact quotations from such works. While translating non-fiction, I normally try to focus on the accuracy of the words used (being it, as a rule, a rather "technical" and "literal" sort of translation), but in this case I ended up feeling like I was playing an instrument, or executing a musical theme (which is what often happens to me when I'm translating fiction, although I always combine such "artistic" vein – which is probably due to the fact I'm also a writer – with a great respect for the author's original intentions).
How long did it take you to do the translation?
About two months.
Did you have a favorite chapter of my book?
Although I loved many of them, I found the chapter "Your Own Personal Gollum" especially charming, not only because I consider Gollum one of the most tragic and beautiful figures of universal Literature, but because I completely agreed with what you say there about human relationships and the fact that sometimes it is much better to detach from companies that are not a true help to our (and also to their own) personal growth (and the memory of your "problematic" dog, that nevertheless you loved profoundly, touched me inside, since I adore dogs). More in general, I appreciated the way you always relate Tolkien's characters and stories to personal experiences of yours and real-life situations that I also felt really involved in while reading (like when you mentioned your terrible minutes stuck underwater as a scuba diver, or the simple beauty of your wedding, or the unexpected meeting with that beggar in New York, after you'd signed your first contract as an author). I believe all these are true epiphanies.
You are from the city of Florence, one of the most amazing cities I've ever visited. What's the best part about living in such an ancient place—a city with so much history?
Well, you said that… It's beauty, a dimension that encompasses centuries and makes me feel constantly involved in an energetic halo of culture and humanism that, despite the various inconsistencies of the present, still nurtures me. I only regret that, living in the outskirts and working all day, I don't go to the centre so often (except for my Polish lessons at the University of Florence or for some Hobbit-like beer evenings with friends, once in a while J). But every time I see the Campanile di Giotto, or Piazza della Signoria, or the Ponte Vecchio at sunset, or every time I take in the view from Piazzale Michelangelo, I say to myself that, although I love travelling so much, I will probably never find any other place so beautiful.
You're an author too. You've written a work of speculative fiction (a genre I love) called Sentieri di notte (Paths of Night). What's the book about?
It is a sci-fi nuanced thriller set in a European night of the year 2025, between Berlin (where a multinational company running all IT flows and energetic provisions has thrown the continent into the darkness of an extended black-out) and Krakow (that is being gradually absorbed by an enigmatic white cloud advancing from the suburbs). It is multifaceted story, a patchwork of places, countries and cultures in which technology offers the pretext and the background to a vicissitude aiming at the return to the Source and at a fusion with the roots of Being. The Chakra of Krakow Castle, obscure threats coming from clerical environments and the surfacing of an intimate vocation focused on Desire and consonant with the original text of an old Aramaic prayer that can win all mind's resistances. This novel definitely is speculative fiction, as you correctly say, and is also an expression of the Italian literary (and originally sci-fi) movement called Connettivismo (Connectivism) (see http://scifiportal.eu/not-for-connectivists-guide-to-the-galaxy-i/ and http://escholarship.org/uc/item/67b8j74s): in fact, it is the first novel inspired from the poetics of this movement that tries to penetrate into the territories of spirituality and into the realm of mainstream literature.
I'm writing a series set in ancient Greece (The Warrior Trilogy). You write Sci-fi. How come the two of us aren't writing fantasy like our hero Tolkien? : )
This is really interesting, now that you make me think about it. J It is probably due to the fact that we've caught what Tolkien considered the most important point in true fantasy literature: after the Escape into the "otherworld" of fantasy, where are bound to return here and now, to recover the awareness of the world we live in, and hopefully contribute to improving it. Within this context, both your interest in ancient Greece (that I absolutely share) and my investigations into a (likely) near future are coherent consequences of that premise. History is the real world as it used to be, and the next future is how it may become starting from now. Knowing the former is essential to get ready for the latter.
When does The Hobbit come out in Italy, and what are you most looking forward to seeing in the films?
It comes out in December, and I'm definitely looking forward to this! I don't know, I'm kind of worried that this time they may have changed too many things from the original plot of Tolkien's novel, but what I really want to see is the Forest of Mirkwood (although I will very probably have to wait for the next episodes for this…).
What are you working on next?
As a translator, I am working on a couple of American and English thrillers and on the first book of a series of "black" novels set in Cuba by the international award winning writer (and an extraordinary friend) Amir Valle (http://amirvalle.com/), who lives exiled in Berlin and fights for the freedom of his Cuban fellow citizens. It is him who showed me some most interesting spots of Berlin which then proved to be fundamental for my inspiration and became part of my novel "Sentieri di notte". I am also translating this book of mine into Spanish and English, with an eye to very much hoped-for international editions (the Spanish one is almost certain). And very soon I want to start working on its screenplay version.
As a writer, I am writing the sequel of "Sentieri di notte", that will be partly set in Florence, and have recently finished a thriller (still set in Florence, although in this case without sci-fi nuances) that will hopefully be released next year.
As a blogger, I keep collaborating regularly with http://lapoesiaelospirito.wordpress.com/ and http://www.postpopuli.it/, two relevant Italian blogs focused on cultural issues, apart from updating my personal blog http://giovanniag.wordpress.com and my Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+ profiles.
Thanks, Giovanni!
Thank you so much, Noble!
Giovanni Agnoloni (http://giovanniag.wordpress.com) is an Italian, Florence-born (1976) fiction and non-fiction writer, a translator and a blogger. As a non-fiction writer, he has published Letteratura del fantastico ("Fantasic Literature", Spazio Tre, Milan, Rome 2004), focussed on The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (compared with the Greek, Latin and Italian classics) and the English article Tolkien as a Benchmark of Comparative Literature – Middle-earth in Our World, that appears in the publication The Ring Goes Ever On: Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference (The Tolkien Society, 2008; a cura di Sarah Wells). These works of his were presented throughout Italy and in various European and American universities and institutions. He then published Nuova letteratura fantasy ("New Fantasy Literature") (Eumeswil, 2010), where he compared Tolkien to several 20th century authors such as Hermann Hesse, José Saramago and Gabriel García Márquez. His latest Tolkien studies are Tolkien e Bach. Dalla Terra di Mezzo all'energia dei fiori (Galaad, 2011) ("Tolkien and Bach. From Middle-earth to the Energy of Flowers" – a true novelty on the world scene, because, for the first time, it compares he symbolic values of the characters, places and objects of J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium to the psychological-archetypal models of the "Bach Flowers", discovered by Dr. Edward Bach) and Tolkien. La Luce e l'Ombra (Senzapatria, 2011) ("Tolkien. The Light and the Shadow") (http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Tolkien:_La_Luce_e_l'Ombra), of which he is the editor, the translator and a co-author, with contributions from several internationally renowned Tolkien scholars.
As a fiction writer, his debut has just occurred (October 2012) with Sentieri di notte, a novel that is an expression of the Poetics of the literary movement of Connettivismo, published by Galaad Edizioni within the fiction collection "Larix", edited by Davide Sapienza. It is a sci-fi nuanced thriller set in a night of Europe between Berlin and Krakow.
How Snug Is Your Hobbit-Hole?
The paperback of The Wisdom of the Shire is available on October 29th from St. Martin's Griffin. It includes a bonus chapter called "The Children of the Shire." Here's Chapter 1 of the book that has been translated into eight languages including Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, and Finnish.
Chapter 1
Throughout my life I've often heard people describe a snug home or a particularly cozy room as being "just like a Hobbit-hole." This is one of the highest compliments a Tolkien fan can give, for it's the sort of place where they'd want to spend some serious leisure time—to read a book or have a conversation, to eat a delicious meal or just sit and think.
On the very first page of The Hobbit Tolkien introduced the world to Bilbo Baggins (and Middle-earth for that matter) with a lengthy and loving description of a Hobbit-hole. His Halflings are, without a doubt, creatures of comfort. But they don't live in ostentatious mansions or castles of stone. Their cozy homes, built into the sides of hills for optimal insulation, are cheery wood-paneled refuges with fireplaces, well-stocked pantries, featherbeds and pretty gardens right outside their deep-set windows.
Peter Jackson's film adaptations show Bag End in all its oak paneled and glowing hearth fire glory. Who wouldn't want to inhabit that welcoming house with its hand-hewn beams, big round front door and cozy sun-dappled kitchen? The fact that you're reading this book means you're most likely smiling wistfully right now thinking, I would live there faster than you can say "Drogo Baggins's boat!"
In The Hobbit, when Bilbo is trapped inside the Elven-king's palace—existing as an invisible and lonely thief without a bed to call his own—he wishes he were back in his dear home, sitting by the fireplace with a shining lamp on his table. To him this is the height of comfort. Warmth. Light. Peace of mind. We must remember that Bilbo rushed out of his home in such a hurry to join Thorin Oakenshield and his band of Dwarves that he'd forgotten to bring a pocket-handkerchief!
When I was a boy I tried to turn my drab suburban bedroom into my own private Hobbit-hole. I found an old wingback chair at the local thrift shop—a chair suitable for marathon sessions of The Lord of the Rings. I stacked my shelves with Tolkien books I'd rescued from used-bookstores. I started a secondhand pipe collection (assuring my mom they were "Just for show!") and bought some cheap drugstore pipe tobacco called "Borkum Riff," placing it in a big jar I labeled Longbottom Leaf. Every time I opened the lid it filled my room with a scent redolent (at least I thought) of Bag End. This room was my refuge, even though it probably reeked like the back of a union hall.
Over the years I've found I was not alone in my earnest longing for a Hobbit-hole to call my own. This notion, however absurd, appeals to many of us Shire enthusiasts. Some people have managed to create their own versions of Bag End, like Simon Dale in the United Kingdom who built an abode worthy of Hobbiton. The house, half-buried in the Welsh countryside, was entirely fashioned by hand out of local materials such as stones and wood from surrounding forests. It has a roof that collects water for the garden and an air-cooled fridge.
(Simon Dale and family, Wales)
There are very few places throughout the various Halflings' adventures that offer a facsimile of the extreme comforts of the Shire home: the magical Rivendell with its whispering trees, soft beds, wistful Elves and Lays of the Elder Days Poetry Nights; Tom Bombadil's cottage nestled in the woods near the gurgling Withywindle River, complete with chef Goldberry—ravishing daughter of the River-king; and Beorn's wooden hall with its endless supply of honey cakes, mead and waitstaff of trained bipedal animals.
All of these locations have something in common, despite their curious inhabitants. Like Hobbit-holes they're safe, warm, comfortable and filled with good food. They're homey places to rest and regenerate before a long journey, and they're connected to the natural world in a way that makes them almost part of the surroundings.
Modern homes are a sharp contrast to the cheery Hobbit-holes and have become repositories for cheap imported junk that we toss out like so much rubbish after a few short years of use. For many of us our connection to the world outside our homes is what we see from our cars in bumper-to-bumper traffic on the way to hermetically sealed office buildings. Urban sprawl or "Orc-ification" is turning our cities and towns into vast and ugly corporate retail outlets.
Everything inside and outside a Hobbit-hole would have been made by hand. And it would all have been created to last a lifetime, from the brass knob in the center of the big round front door, to the clay mugs in the kitchen, to the chair in front of the fire. When did we all become so helpless that we stopped learning how to make or fix the simplest things? Why don't we expect the same sort of permanence and quality in our own lives?
(Fisher Blacksmithing handcrafted garden tools)
There are ways to change. Internet sites like Makezine.com show people all over the globe making remarkable utilitarian objects by hand, and Instructables.com will teach you the step-by-step process of how to build and mend things you would have thought were impossible. Online retailers like Etsy allow hundreds of thousands of craftspeople from all across the world to sell their handmade items (everything from furniture to clothes to ironmongery) to millions of buyers. These artisans are making amazing things out of recycled products as well as upcycled materials.
Seventy years ago Tolkien lamented how machines seemed to be taking over the world. Everywhere he looked trees were being cut down to make way for ugly garages, gasworks and factories. (Imagine how he would feel about the state of things now.) He wrote most of The Lord of the Rings during WWII at his house in Oxford while thunderous warplanes roared overhead flying off to Europe. He mused grimly that Moloch, a god that sacrificed its firstborn sons, must have taken over as ruler of the world.
Tolkien wrote often to his son Christopher (his chief audience for his stories) who was serving in the Royal Air Force at the time, sending him chapters of The Lord of the Rings as soon as he could get copies typed up. In his letters he described to his son the little joys of life back in Oxford. He also told him about the simple trials and tribulations of being a homeowner. Reading about the mundane, when you're far from home, is sometimes just as interesting as hearing about the sublime.
Tolkien had seen the horrors of mechanized war firsthand, having served in the trenches of WWI in France. Like the Hobbits in The Lord of the Rings, he'd returned from the desolation of the battlefield to a changed world—a world where all but one of his friends no longer walked the Earth. Ten years after the Great War he was staring at a blank page of paper when the opening lines of The Hobbit popped into his head.
And thus was born the first Hobbit—the reluctant hero who departs his beloved abode and returns from a great adventure a changed man. We'd all be lucky in life if we had the chance to experience an unexpected adventure, and then make our way back safely to a place of comfort. Sometimes the only way we can appreciate our home and the simple happiness it has to offer is to be away from it for a while.
After the battle of the Pelennor Fields, when Merry is recovering in Gondor's Houses of Healing from his brave attack on the dread Witch-king of Angmar, he tells Pippin that one thing alone has sustained him through the hardships of his terrible journey: the deep spiritual roots he's put down in his beloved Shire.
This is Merry's Hobbit-hole of the mind.
Try to think of a place in your own life that was like a Hobbit-hole. It could have been your beloved grandparents' living room, or a kindly music teacher's studio or a good friend's comfy apartment. What was it about that place that made you feel at home? That allowed you to dream? Was it the space itself, or the people in it? Or a combination of both? At some point in your life your subconscious put down "roots" in this place, and you can take strength from this memory, even if the actual place no longer exists.
You can create a snug "Hobbit-hole" wherever you are—in your office, in a hotel room, in a college dormitory, in an apartment in the city or a bedroom in the suburbs. Because the space which you inhabit is irrelevant compared to the power of your mind to project contentment. For me that contentment has always meant having a good book at hand, so that no matter where I was stuck physically, my mind was free to soar.
In the final scene of The Lord of the Rings, Sam Gamgee returns from the Grey Havens to Bag End, arriving at night. He's just said good-bye to Frodo forever and he is terribly sad. But then he sees the cheery yellow glow of firelight emanating from the house that now belongs to him—a home bequeathed to him by Frodo. The house itself—the structure—is not important, however. It's what's inside: his loving wife and daughter waiting for him with a warm meal on the table.
It's a beautiful bookend to Tolkien's beloved novels: The Hobbit starts at Bag End with a callow bachelor and The Lord of the Rings ends there with a wise father. All of Tolkien's great adventures are set in between the opening and closing of the door to a simple and yet miraculous dwelling called a Hobbit-hole.
The Wisdom of the Shire Tells Us …
"Your true home is inside your heart and stays with you wherever you go; but a nice snug room is a lovely thing to come back home to!"
Pre-order the paperback of The Wisdom of the Shire now from Amazon and receive it October 29th.
Copyright © 2012 by Noble Smith
Hobbitpalooza Part 2!
If Gollum and Mick Jagger went into the Thunderdome, who would come out alive? The answer to this and other important questions are revealed in the Dungeons & Dorkwads special Dork-off: Hobbitpalooza Part 2.
Cool Like Bombadillo
(Tom Bombadil by the Brothers Hildebrandt)
J.R.R. Tolkien's character of Tom Bombadil was based on one of the author's beloved childhood toys—a doll that accidentally got flushed down a toilet. Many Tolkien aficionados wish that the enigmatic inhabitant of the Old Forest had stayed in that loo, never to resurface in Tolkien's subconscious.
I'm not one of those Bombadillo bashers, however. I don't understood Tolkien fans who have a "Knights who say ni" reaction whenever you utter the word "Bombadil." Or the type who quote Tim Benzadrine (Tom's inane caricature from Bored of the Rings) with idiotic delight. I've always loved Tolkien's jolly fellow with his bright blue hat and his boots of yellow.
Because old Tom is one fascinating dude. Read The Ten Reasons Why Tom Bombadil Is Cooler Than You Think He Is.
Tolkien Had Goblin Feet
"Goblin Feet" is the title of J.R.R . Tolkien's first published work. The poem came out in 1915 when he was twenty-three in an anthology produced by Blackwell's Books. Near the end of his life Tolkien stated that he despised the poem: "I wish the unhappy little thing, representing all that I came (so soon after) to fervently dislike, could be buried for ever." Look. They spelled the author's name wrong!
To learn more about "Goblin Feet" as well as the history of the publication of The Lord of the Rings, read my new piece on Legendarium.
Ethan Gilsdorf (author of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks) and I geek out on the new Desolation of Smaug trailer and reminisce about the Rankin and Bass version of The Hobbit. You can also win a copy of the new illustrated edition of The Hobbit. Go to www.dungeonsanddorkwads.com. Hobbitpalooza!


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