In what looks like an exciting scene, a great picture of Gandalf leading a charge was posted today by The Realm of the Ring. Great stuff! !!!SPOILER!!!
Day: May 16, 2000
Yes that’s right! We’re very excited to host a live chat session with renowned fantasy author Margaret Weis tomorrow, 5/17/00, at 8:00 EDT. Details and links here.
Greetings – Quickbeam here.
As May brings us the long days of Summer, the poor cast and crew down in New Zealand are starting to bundle up against the first cold nips of Winter. It’s a good time to cozy up to a warm computer and enjoy all the new updates in Green Books… Check it out:
- “Emotion and Commitment” is the brand new Counterpoint by Anwyn. It’s an extraordinary piece on how the characters in LOTR struggle with the truest impulses of the human heart.
- Turgon commits “Literary Sacrilege” by endorsing the Harvard Lampoon’s famous parody Bored of the Rings! Love it or hate it, he’s already put it up on his Bookshelf.
- Woo-hoo! Our hugely popular Questions & Answers section is bursting with nearly THIRTY new articles! You ask, we tell:
- What happened to the spirits of Elves when they died?
- Did the Balrog literally have wings?
- What was the origin of the Mirror of Galadriel?
- Is there truly a World War II / Lord of the Rings connection?
- Why was Samwise just a servant?
- What was the deal with Radagast the Brown?
- How did Morgoth escape the Doors of Night?
All these and many more can be found here.
- There are great new Moon Letters from some very talented Ringers. You want poetry, songs, and cool fiction? We got ’em:
- Eledwhen brings us wonderful later tales from The Red Book in “The Fell Winter.”
- Michele Durrett’s “Child of Dale” will give you the shivers.
- Stirring adventure awaits in the continuing chapters of “A Grey Night” by Stephen Barnes, Jr.
- Look for new updates in red for our previous Q&A articles. We get some terrific feedback from our intelligent readership.
Keep your eyes on Green Books for upcoming interviews with some surprising people!
Much too hasty,
Quickbeam
Ringer Spy Xtem gives us the latest dish on the Lyall Bay set in Wellington, anyone for a swim? [More]
Super Ringer Spy Xtem sheds some light on the Lyall Bay Set in Wellington:
Lyall Bay
Xtem reporting in. After spending what seems like an eternity from what I can only describe as an Eye following me, I believe that I have finally stayed in the shadows long enough to evade angry New Line notice of trespass!
Something which I am quite surprised hasn’t been reported yet was the filming down at Lyal Bay on Wednesday last week. Large marquee tents were set up on a grassy knoll, on a slight rise from the Southernly facing beach, while in front was a mountainous slope about 80 degrees up. Filming went into the night, with floodlights lighting up the entire hillside. The next day the site was already beginning to be vacated.
The photo below shows what the background would’ve been like. Unfortunately I couldn’t find any photos which actually showed the site.
Ringer fan Marc Hawkins chimes in with this tidbit of info from a recent posting at Apple.com:
“In addition, Nielsen//NetRatings has named Apple’s website, www.apple.com, the most popular destination for movie trailers on the web.* Contributing to the success of Apple.com’s Quicktime-based movie trailer section, downloads for New Line Cinema’s “The Lord of the Rings” preview, encoded exclusively in QuickTime, topped 12 million since its April 7 debut, making it one of the largest online entertainment events ever.”