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Born Of Hope
''Born of Hope: The Ring of Barahir'' (often referred to as simply ''Born of Hope'') is a 2009 British fantasy adventure fan film directed by Kate Madison and written by Paula DiSante (as Alex K. Aldridge) based on the appendices of J. R. R. Tolkien's 1954–55 novel ''The Lord of the Rings''. The film centres on the communities affected by Sauron's war; the Dúnedain bloodline; and the story of Arathorn II and his relationship with Gilraen as they would be the parents of Aragorn, who became a key leader against Sauron. The bulk of the film was shot at the West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village in Suffolk. Scenes were shot in Epping Forest, Snowdonia National Park, Clearwell Caves and the Brecon Beacons. It debuted at Ring*Con 2009 before being streamed for free on DailyMotion, and later on YouTube. Plot In the late Third Age, Sauron's power is increasing, and he has sent his Orcs to seek out the remnants of the bloodline of Elendil, kept alive in the Dúnedain. Dirhael, his wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Madison
Kate Madison is a British independent filmmaker, director, producer and actor. She portrayed the character Elgarain in her film, '' Born of Hope''. Background Kate Madison was born in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England but now lives in Cambridge, England. She started acting at the age of four years when her mother got her involved in a local amateur dramatic group. She was educated at the Netherhall School and Long Road Sixth Form College, both in Cambridge. She gained a bachelor's degree in zoology at Aberystwyth University, but realized this would not be her profession. She discovered and joined the Cambridge Filmmakers Network (CFN) and established her company, Actors at Work Productions in 2003. It was through the CFN she became directly involved in her first two film projects. ''Into the Darkness'' and ''The Horsemen'' In 2005 Madison was working on a short film with the working title ''Into the Darkness''. The lead character, Abigail (played by Jennie Fox) discovers a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clearwell Caves
Clearwell Caves, at Clearwell in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, is a natural cave system which has been extensively mined for iron ore. It now operates primarily as a mining museum. The caves are part of a Natural England designated Site of Special Scientific Interest and the notification includes parts of Clearwell along with Old Bow, Lambsquay and Old Ham mine complexes. Mining Clearwell Caves are a collection of six mines: Clearwell, Old Ham, Lambsquay, Old Bow, Oak Pit and New Dun, covering approximately 250 acres. The interconnected cave systems were formed by underground streams from around 180 million years ago. They have been mined originally for ochre, then for iron ore from Iron Age times Circa 100BC increasing from Roman times and extensively during the 19th century, which considerably enlarged and extended the network of natural caverns. Ochre has been mined here for even longer. The nearby scowles at the Secret Forest and Puzzlewood represent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Kennard (actor)
Matthew Kennard (born 12 February 1982) is an English television actor, best known for his role as nurse Archie Hallam in the BBC One soap opera '' Doctors''. Career Kennard was born in Grimsby, Humberside, and has played roles in soap operas including '' Coronation Street'', ''Hollyoaks'' and '' Doctors''. He also starred as Manchester United footballer Duncan Edwards in a BBC dramatisation of the 1958 Munich air disaster. One of Kennard's earlier roles was in the series ''Love in the 21st Century'', broadcast on Channel 4 in 1999 and created by Red Productions, who were previously responsible for '' Queer as Folk''. Kennard's character is seduced by a school teacher who believes she is giving him experience, although it later transpires he had made a bet that he could sleep with her. Kennard left a regular role in the soap opera, ''Doctors'', on 27 April 2009, to concentrate on film work, including featuring in '' Born of Hope'' with his brother Sam. He appeared in the seve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilraen
Aragorn is a fictional character and a protagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings''. Aragorn was a Ranger of the North, first introduced with the name Strider and later revealed to be the heir of Isildur, an ancient King of Arnor and Gondor. Aragorn was a confidant of the wizard Gandalf, and played a part in the quest to destroy the One Ring and defeat the Dark Lord Sauron. As a young man, Aragorn fell in love with the immortal elf Arwen, as told in The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen. Arwen's father, Elrond Half-elven, forbade them to marry unless Aragorn became King of both Arnor and Gondor. Aragorn led the Fellowship of the Ring following the loss of Gandalf in the Mines of Moria. When the Fellowship was broken, he tracked the hobbits Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took with the help of Legolas the elf and Gimli the dwarf to Fangorn Forest. He then fought in the battle at Helm's Deep and the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. After defeating Sauron's forces in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chieftains Of The Dúnedain
A chieftain is a tribal chief or village head. Chieftain or Chieftains may refer also to: * Chieftain (tank), the main battle tank of the British Army during the 1960s and 1970s * '' The Chieftain'', a 1894 comic opera by Arthur Sullivan and F. C. Burnand. * ''The Chieftain'' (film), a 1984 Norwegian drama film * Chieftains Museum, Cherokee museum in Rome, Georgia * The Chieftains, a traditional Irish musical group * , a UK passenger ferry * Chieftain Products, a former Canadian toy and game company * Chieftain, a line of computers sold by Smoke Signal Broadcasting See also * Piper PA-31 Navajo Chieftain The Piper PA-31 Navajo is a family of cabin-class, twin-engined aircraft designed and built by Piper Aircraft for the general aviation market, most using Lycoming engines. It was also license-built in a number of Latin American countries. Tar ..., a light aircraft * Chief (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elrond
Elrond Half-elven is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. Both of his parents, Eärendil and Elwing, were half-elven, having both Men and Elves as ancestors. He is the bearer of the elven-ring Vilya, the Ring of Air, and master of Rivendell, where he has lived for thousands of years through the Second and Third Ages of Middle-earth. He was the Elf-king Gil-galad's herald at the end of the Second Age, saw Gil-galad and king Elendil fight the dark lord Sauron for the One Ring, and Elendil's son Isildur take it rather than destroy it. He is introduced in ''The Hobbit'', where he plays a supporting role, as he does in ''The Lord of the Rings'' and ''The Silmarillion''. Scholars have commented on Elrond's archaic style of speech, noting that this uses genuinely archaic grammar, not just a sprinkling of old words. The effect is to make his speech distinctive, befitting his age and status, while remaining clear, and avoiding quaintness. He has been ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coldfells
Trolls are fictional characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, and feature in films and games adapted from his novels. They are portrayed as Tolkien's monsters, monstrously large humanoids of great strength and poor intellect. In ''The Hobbit'', like the dwarf Alviss of Norse mythology, they must be below ground before dawn or turn to stone, whereas in ''The Lord of the Rings'' they are able to face daylight. Commentators have noted the different uses Tolkien made of trolls, from comedy in Sam Gamgee's poem and the Cockney accents and table manners of the working-class trolls in ''The Hobbit'', to the hellish atmosphere in Moria (Middle-earth), Moria as the protagonists are confronted by darkness and monsters. Tolkien, a Roman Catholic, drew back from giving trolls the power of speech, as he had done in ''The Hobbit'', as it implied to him that they had souls, so he made the trolls in ''The Silmarillion'' and ''The Lord of the Rings'' darker and more bestial. They were suppos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Troll (Middle-earth)
Trolls are fictional characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, and feature in films and games adapted from his novels. They are portrayed as monstrously large humanoids of great strength and poor intellect. In ''The Hobbit'', like the dwarf Alviss of Norse mythology, they must be below ground before dawn or turn to stone, whereas in ''The Lord of the Rings'' they are able to face daylight. Commentators have noted the different uses Tolkien made of trolls, from comedy in Sam Gamgee's poem and the Cockney accents and table manners of the working-class trolls in ''The Hobbit'', to the hellish atmosphere in Moria as the protagonists are confronted by darkness and monsters. Tolkien, a Roman Catholic, drew back from giving trolls the power of speech, as he had done in ''The Hobbit'', as it implied to him that they had souls, so he made the trolls in ''The Silmarillion'' and ''The Lord of the Rings'' darker and more bestial. They were supposedly bred by the Dark Lords Melkor an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivendell
Rivendell ('' sjn, Imladris'') is a valley in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth, representing both a homely place of sanctuary and a magical Elvish otherworld. It is an important location in '' The Hobbit'' and '' The Lord of the Rings'', being the place where the quest to destroy the One Ring began. Rivendell's feeling of peace may have contributed to the popularity of ''The Lord of the Rings'' during the war-troubled 1960s. Scholars have noted that Rivendell was the home of Elvish song, from the hymn to Elbereth, recalling Tolkien's Catholicism, to the complex Song of Eärendil with its multiple poetic devices. Others have written that it resembles the Celtic Otherworld of Tír na nÓg; and that it physically recalls the valley of Lauterbrunnen in Switzerland where Tolkien had gone hiking in 1911. Etymology ''Rivendell'' is a direct translation or calque into English of the Sindarin Imladris, both meaning "deep valley". The name Rivendell is formed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arador
The following is a list of notable characters from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. The list is for characters from Tolkien's writings only. A * Aragorn:Son of Arathorn, descendant of Isildur who was a principal figure in both the Fellowship of the Ring and the War of the Ring. Became king over the reunited kingdoms of Gondor and Arnor. * Arwen: Daughter of Elrond Half-elven and Celebrían, marries Aragorn at the end of the War of the Ring and becomes queen of the reunited kingdoms of Gondor and Arnor. B * Balin: Dwarf companion of Thorin Oakenshield in The Hobbit. Slain during an attempt to retake Moria. * Bard the Bowman: Man of Esgaroth who slew Smaug the dragon. * Beorn: Skin-changer who resides in the region of Mirkwood and takes the form of a great bear. * Bilbo Baggins: A hobbit adventurer. Discovered the One Ring after its loss by Gollum. * Boromir: Member of the Fellowship of the Ring, son and heir to Denethor II of Gondor. Slain by Uruk-hai at Amon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elendil
Elendil is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. He is mentioned in ''The Lord of the Rings'', ''The Silmarillion'' and ''Unfinished Tales''. He was the father of Isildur and Anárion, last lord of Andúnië on the island of Númenor, and having escaped its downfall by sailing to Middle-earth, became the first High King of Arnor and Gondor. In the Last Alliance of Men and Elves, Elendil and Gil-galad laid siege to the Dark Lord Sauron's fortress of Barad-dûr, and fought him hand-to-hand for the One Ring. Both Elendil and Gil-galad were killed, and Elendil's son Isildur took the Ring for himself. Tolkien called Elendil a "Noachian figure", an echo of the biblical Noah. Elendil escaped from the flood that drowned Númenor, itself an echo of the myth of Atlantis, founding new Númenórean kingdoms in Middle-earth. Fictional history Biography Elendil was born in Númenor, son of Amandil, Lord of Andúnië and leader of the "Faithful" (those who remained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Third Age
In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the history of Arda, also called the history of Middle-earth, began when the Ainur entered Arda, following the creation events in the Ainulindalë and long ages of labour throughout Eä, the fictional universe. Time from that point was measured using Valian Years, though the subsequent history of Arda was divided into three time periods using different years, known as the Years of the Lamps, the Years of the Trees and the Years of the Sun. A separate, overlapping chronology divides the history into 'Ages of the Children of Ilúvatar'. The first such Age began with the Awakening of the Elves during the Years of the Trees and continued for the first six centuries of the Years of the Sun. All the subsequent Ages took place during the Years of the Sun. Most Middle-earth stories take place in the first three Ages of the Children of Ilúvatar. Major themes of the history are the divine creation of the world, followed by the splintering of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
