Direct from a super secret source deep in the mines of Moria comes a bunch of casting scripts from ‘Three Foot Six’. These are the scripts that the casting directors make the actor hopefulls read before them to see if they have the right ‘stuff’. Perhaps you’ve seen Mark Hamill or Henry Thomas (Eliot from E.T.) doing their auditions, it’s very a very interesting procedure (as far as I’m concerned at least!). What I wouldn’t give to see some of these audition tapes!

The small snippets of script that I have may not even make it into the final takes due to time or dialogue changes, yet it’s still an interesting read! While I cannot post them directly, I will read them all, compare them to the two Miramax scipts I’ve read, as well as the books, and write something up soon! Keep an eye out!

The scripts I have are for the characters: two for Aragorn, Arwen, Bilbo, Boromir, Denethor, Elrond, Eowyn, Faramir, two for Frodo, Galadriel, Gandalf, Gimli, Legolas, Merry, Pippin, two for Sam, Saruman, Theoden, and Wormtongue

Cinescape is reporting on the E! Online ‘Force of the Hobbit’ section they have. Most of it seems to be confirmting news we’ve posted months ago, here’s a re-cap:

E! Online suggests that Liv Tyler is showing the signs of stress brought on by two months of continuous filming. Rumors has it that one scene didn’t work because Tyler “freaked out when Orc armies charged her.”

Confirming our story which we posted on March 18th [More]

Christopher Lee has wrapped his scenes with LOTR

Confirming our story we posted on April 5th [More]

Canadian folksinger Loreena McKennitt have been approached to work on some music of the trilogy

Confirming the happy news we posted on January 3rd [More]

Thanks to The Saint for poking his nose in our archives to find all the dates and links!

More Tolkien Items here than Peter Jackson’s sock drawer! [More]

Last week’s chat with Steve Hockensmith, Editor in Chief at Cinescape Magazine was a blast! Steve spoke about the mag’s future plans for LOTR coverage, what he expects from New Line and Peter Jackson and much more! Follow the link to read it all! [More]

You can catch Bernard Hill (Theoden) in ‘Titanic’ on Cinemax [More].

You can see Brad Dourif (Grima Wormtongue) in ‘Progeny’ on Cinemax as well [More].