Hi everyone! Gamgee here with yet another rousing edition of the Tolkien fun section! Yesterday, our winner was Ecthelion! Good Job Man!!! The answers were: 1) Earrame 2) Snowmane 3) Faramir
Here are the questions for today:
1) “Who was the father of the 1st Lord of Dol Amroth?”
2) “eidqnulaac” (Tolkien person, place or thing)
3) “..after waiting sixty years?! Spoons! Fiddlesticks!” (Who said this?)
As always Mail me with your answers, the 1st person to mail me all 3 correct answers in one mailing, will be posted here tomorrow! Good luck!
Day: April 11, 2000
More news from the intrepid Dynamo:
TV 3 news had footage from the slopes of Ruapehu, footage of extras practicing with swords, humans with black/dark blue capes, about 20 of them. Had a picture of “the Hobbit” restaurant in Ohakune too! They also talked to some local trampers who had walked past the filming and been surprised, some had taken some pictures. TV 3 also reckoned that someone had filmed enough to sell on the net for $40,000!
Thanks to Xtem
$40,000 eh? Little to rich for my blood.
News is spreading far and wide concerning our little film we love and follow. Tonight’s ‘Access Hollywood’ had a little clip showing the trailer and mentioning the number of downloads, cough and you’d have missed it…
..So there you have it!
Teaser news here folks, I LOVE when LOTR makes news!
The Fellowship of the Ring, the first installment in director Peter Jackson’s three-film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy classic The Lord of the Rings, won’t show up in theaters until Christmas 2001. Given the epic length of the massive project’s shooting schedule (all three installments are being filmed back to back), there’s almost no way it can arrive any sooner — alas for distributor New Line. [More]
Thanks to Quickbeam and Pippin-Took for the tip!
This from: Jeremy
CNN just aired a lord of the rings thing about more downloads then Star Wars. It was on CNN Hollywood.
Check out the frame by frame analysis for more updates concerning creature design and some other rumors. [ more ]
SPOILER ALERT!!!
April 11th marks 6 months to the day that principal photography began on Peter Jackson’s epic Lord of the Rings Trilogy. In a record 14 to 18 months shoot, the kind of which has never been seen before, Peter Jackson and his team at Three Foot Six and WETA are embarking on a mission of un-precedented scope and vision, using technologies and talent not even seen in that Galaxy Far Far Away… [More]