lord of the rings
The Interview: The Hobbit director Peter Jackson
Director Peter Jackson on his last Tolkien movie, his favourite villain—and why his kids haven’t read Lord of the Rings
What students are talking about today (December 17th)
Fake IDs, cheerleading champs, Tolkien & weirdo engineers
Three unexpected things I learned in university
Archery is hard, geese are mean and Marmite is gross
The power of Tolkien and a good cup of coffee
Conservatives watching every word
Time for this year’s edition of X-Ring Idol
A fine university deserves better than this: Pettigrew
“We’re going to out-Klingon Klingon!”
A strong late entry in the “significant word of 2009” sweepstakes would be the noun and verb “conlang”. A conlang is any consciously constructed language; familiar examples include “auxlangs” developed in earnest for international use, like Esperanto, but the hot new conlang is the tongue developed for the giant soft-porn Smurfs in James Cameron’s Avatar by business professor and linguist Paul Frommer.