Mystical Realms Newsletter for December, 2014
Jef Murray
Greetings!
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Pitchers ===============
• EWTN will be broadcasting a new special on the Catholicity of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” this week! It will air on Dec 14 9pm and Dec 16 5pm! Hope many of you can watch it! This is hosted by Tolkien biographer Joseph Pearce, and it includes an enormous number of my painting and sketch images.
• “Seer: A Wizard’s Journal” 2nd Edition is now available! Plus, there are bundles of items that include many of the new color illustrations that you can purchase with the book (mugs, bookmarks, art cards, Christmas ornaments, etc.)! To see what’s available and to order yours, see: http://olorisbookshop.com/collections/books/products/seer-2nd-edition
• For those of you who enjoyed “Seer”, and for those who will be reading it soon, please note that I am posting a new series of short stories weekly that will include characters you already know from “Seer”, as well as many new ones. The series, entitled “The Framerunners”, can be seen at www.TheFramerunners.com. These tales are for young adults and for the young at heart. If you loved The Hobbit and the Chronicles of Narnia, but also enjoy other fantasy tales and science fiction, please come and follow along as we chronicle the adventures of Jill, Sam, Luke, and many others!
• The 2015 Fantastical Beasts & Beings Calendar is still available! To learn more and to purchase your copy, you can go to my website and click on the Fantastical Beasts Calendar image on the front page slider, or go directly to the following link: http://sales.jefmurray.com/books/calendar_2015_Jef_Murray_Fb.html
• I’ve added 2 new painting images to my website at www.JefMurray.com . These include Fireside Journeys, and The Conversation. Both of these can be found in my Middle-earth -> The Third Age -> Lord of the Rings gallery. You can also find them all by going directly to http://www.JefMurray.com and clicking on the “Newest Works->Paintings” link at the top, left.
• In addition to the above, I’ve added 7 new sketch images to my website. These can be found in the Middle-earth Sketches, Fairy Tale Sketches, and Soul & Spirit Sketches galleries, or you can see them all by clicking on the “Newest Works->Sketches link at the top left of my website.
Prospects ===================
• EWTN will be broadcasting a new special on the Catholicity of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” this week! It will air on Dec 14 9pm and Dec 16 5pm! Hope many of you can watch it! This is hosted by Tolkien biographer Joseph Pearce, and it includes an enormous number of my painting and sketch images.
Ponderings ==============
The Framerunners Episode 1.1 (Pilot) – A Rumpus in the Library
Since the earliest of times, even from the dawn of man, when mystics first painted images on the walls of the caves at Lascaux and Altamira, there have been rumors: rumors that the worlds drawn in pigment and charcoal exist not only in the minds of the artists who created them, but in actual fact. And in every age, children are born who gaze with wonder at these worlds and ask “are they real?” and “can I go there?”
These journals are dedicated to those of us who never stopped asking those questions. They chronicle a story that began long before our own time, but that I take up in the present day. If you are reading my words or hearing my voice, then you are being entrusted with knowledge that very few have possessed over the long march of the centuries. My name is Azarias, and these are the tales of our Order: of those who have, in the past, been called the Fratrum Simulacrorum, but who are today known simply as The Framerunners.
[To read all of Episode 1.1, go to www.TheFramerunners.com, or click on the following link: http://jefmurray.com/framerunners/general/episode-1-a-rumpus-in-the-library/ ]