Heather Downing on Middle-earth Talk Radio

Hawke Robinson has now uploaded the fully edited version of the July 18 interview with Heather Downing (Elvish singer Rehtaeh) to the Middle-earth Talk Radio Website. You can listen to Heather's interview in Middle-earth Talk Radio Episode 28. I recommend downloading the MP3 file but you can try streaming it online.
A partial list of the topics discussed includes:

• Tolkien Moot Live Broadcast Coming August 13-15.
• Tolkien journal "Silver Leaves" releases articles with cover art by Ted Nasmith, other artwork and poetry, inspired J.R.R. Tolkien.
• Review article of the "Charles Ross" "One Man" "Lord of the Rings"
• Who are the two most mocked Lord of the Rings characters from the Lord of the Rings Peter Jackson movies?
• The fan film "Born of Hope" reviewed by The Macomb Daily
• The Hunt for Gollum (we mistakenly called it the search for Gollum)
• Michael's S.F. Fandom Blog
• Upcoming Oxonmoot
• Peter Jackson meeting with "The Hobbit" movie actors
• Heather discusses her views on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies "vision" and compares to Walt Disney's "Snow White".
• Interview with Rehtaeh (Heather Downing) begins.
• Heather discusses the current opening song on her website www.rehtaehmusic.com, Aquitania
• Aquitania played in the background. 17:50
• The name "Aquitania" she created as the name of the sea spirit Heather wrote the song about.
• Only found out later that this was the same as the name of an actual ship.
• Heather uses Skype to collaborate with musicians overseas.
• Currently working with people in Wales, Greece, and Italy.
• Heather is premiering a brand new song at this year's Tolkien Moot 2010 August 13-15! This song premiere will be streamed live to the Internet as a "world premiere".
• Federicko Romano, Project from Milan Italy: "June 1974".
• Heather is working with various "finger style" guitarists.
• Worked with The Drumming Tribe in album Elementaria.
• Jerod Guth (spelling?)
• Heather inspired by Lisa Gerrard and Enya.
• Heather's muse is Hellen Trevellian (spelling?) from the U.K., also a self-made artist, found her on myspace.com, Hellen had a number of Tolkien poems.
• Enya May It Be (26:50)
• Professor Chris Seeman's Tolkien Music List
• Other Hands Magazine
• "Orc" "Band", ZA FRÛMI (Swedish group). (28:20)
• Tolkien had music scattered throughout his works.
• Where there's a whip, there's a way (29:20)
  
• The Tolkien Ensemble - Tom Bombadil (30:00)


• The Lament for Mithrandir (30:10)


• Rehtaeh's Shire at Dawn (31:05)


• A question from Ardamir in the irc.Merp.com #merpchat Internet Relay Chat room, and planning to buy her album as MP3's on Amazon.com.


• Grecian musician and singer, Herc Perilous, attempting to write complete music for The Hobbit.


• Heather Downing discusses her trip to New Zealand.

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