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Heroes and Mortals had the immense pleasure of meeting one of our own, a lover of music, Tolkien, and the rich world of middle-earth, in Alex Langenbach, a composer with an epic musical passion, the creation of a soundtrack to Tolkien’s The Silmarillion. Alex started out as a drummer in a metal band, taught himself […]
Tolkien published The Hobbit in 1937, The Lord of the Rings in 1955, and the Rankin/Bass animated film of The Hobbit was released in 1977 and that was the year that kicked off the film interpretations of Tolkien’s works, which are still going strong today. Everyone is (or should!) be familiar with Peter Jackson’s films from […]
The Otherworld has existed in Irish folklore for centuries, passed down through both Pagan and Christian stories of adventure, voyages to Otherworld lands, and visions of mist filled forestscapes where faeries and other mythical creatures exist. The music of the Otherworld has played a prominent part in these stories, from lulling unsuspecting people to sleeping […]
You learned them when you were young, you sung them to your children, you may even have fond memories of Humpty Dumpty, three blind mice, or a (baa baa) black sheep, but these stories aren’t what you thought they were. Behind the sing song meter, gentle voice, and light music that accompanies many nursery rhymes […]
There are many epic people in history, some heroes, some not, Attila the Hun is not a hero, but he sure was epic. Murray Dahm at medievalists.net writes about who he was, what he did, and as part of the lengthy article goes into detail on film, plays, operas and the many musical numbers created […]
Everybody is familiar with many of the films created about Joan of Arc, but there have been a number of musicals and operas created that delve into and expand on the stories and history of the heroine in music form. Murray Dahm at medievalists.net put together an exhaustive list, from the 2017 musical film Jeannette: […]
Carl Sagan and NASA remind of us what’s important: On Valentine’s Day in 1990, at a distance of four billion miles from the Sun (for reference, Pluto averages about 3.7 billion miles from the Sun in it’s orbit), the Voyager 1 spacecraft looked back one last time to make the first ever Solar System family […]
We’ve been working on some new shows and special programs for Heroes and Mortals Radi0 to incorporate a broader range of new and old podcasts and radio shows. In addition to the popular Elven Awakenings and Encounters with the Good People shows on Sunday, we’re announcing the following new shows: Book Reviews by K Fox […]
Valentine’s Day is coming up which means it’s time to make a few sacrifices to your preferred love deity to secure the embrace of your desire. Finding a deity is difficult, there a lot of them, and while most cultures have their own, we live in a global community now and it’s a good time […]
B.G. Franklin, author of the Azelom series, sat down for an interview on Heroes and Mortals Radio with our resident elf, The Elven Scholar! The Azelom series currently consists of two books, with more coming! Azelom: Rise of the Mountain God Azelom: The Shattered Accord “In the Age of Discovery, the mighty Rovart Dominion rules […]
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