Fellow Ring Master Jonny from www.therealmofthering.cjb.net sends in these small pics from Helms Deep, I’ve placed them all…
Continue ReadingFellow Ring Master Jonny from www.therealmofthering.cjb.net sends in these small pics from Helms Deep, I’ve placed them all together into a nice single ‘collage’ 🙂
This is a rather cool article covering Peter Jackson’s previous work, check the details in our Official Peter Jackson Fan Club: The Bastards Have Landed. [ TBHL ]
From: Scout
Sometime this week STARZ! had a little news on LOTR. It was during their “Movie News” filler between movies. They were talking about movies due in the future. It was done from the perspective of New Line releases. They showed the conceptional artwork from the main site and had a brief commentary from a “Variety” writer. No discussion of cast. They mentioned the modest budget and Jackson’s ability to deliver a blockbuster in light of his limited resume.
I bet it was no more than a minute long. It’s supposed to be repeated tomorrow 2-18-00 at 7:30 PM EST.
Xoanon here,
If anyone gets the gusto to pop in a tape in your VCR and hit record and send it on over I’d love you for it 🙂
From the good folks at CHUD:
In a recent interview with IGN big Vin Diesel (The Iron Giant, Pitch Black) recently revealed that he wanted to play Aragorn, so why didn’t he get the part? Read on…
IGN SCI-FI: What character did you want?
VD: I wanted Aragorn. Aragorn, son of Arathorn. But the point is, I wanted to be a part of that, whether it was as a producer, director, actor.
IGN SCI-FI: So why aren’t you part of it?
The inaugural OneRing.net walk around Mordor started out small, (there were only four of us) but we enjoyed wonderfully atmospheric conditions of fog and gloom with the occasional clear moment when we could admire the gigantic horrible heaps of ash and slag that make up Mts. Ngaruhoe and Ruapehu. Stay tuned for the photos!
Next plans: a hobbithead expedition to the top of Ruapehu next month; next year a trip across the flank of Ruapehu going as close to the filming locations as possible, not that anyone will be there. Keep February 2001 clear if you are a bit of a traveller and like hiking.
Oh, and I have some fresh newsbits in Spy Reports
Gambolling around Mordor didn’t stop me from finding out some snippets of news. The DoC staff at one of the huts I stayed at said that some LOTR filming had already taken place over by the Tukino skifield (no no, don’t imagine the Riders of Rohan on snowboards please, it’s midsummer here! Though people I talked to who’d been on the summit of Ruapehu above Tukino got snowed on briefly the day before) and DoC had denied them permission to bring in horses, helicopters etc. so they had to do without, presumably. I suspect that although the area I was hiking through was as Mordor-like as you could possibly want, there’s no way that DoC would let a film crew anywhere near it unless they were prepared to get there the way we did, on foot.
My miraculous periscope-like vision also detected some other unrelated factoids: It looks like Rosie’s role in the films will be a little larger than in the books, perhaps so that there is more sense of her and Sam’s relationship before he leaves the Shire.
