Hello again all! Gamgee here, with yet another astounding edition of the Tolkien Fun Section! Our last winner was again Morden! Good job old pal!!! The answers were:
1. Irmo
2. Lobelia
3. Sam Gamgee
Here are the questions for today:
1) “Name the horse ridden by Eowyn and Merry to the Battle of the Pelennor fields.”
2) “olegad” (Scrambled Tolkien person, place or thing)
3) “They will make it yet. They will escape.” (Who said this?)
As usual, Mail me with your answers, the 1st person to mail me all 3 correct answers in 1 mailing will be posted here next time! Good Luck!……Gamgee
Day: June 14, 2000
This is more of a literary note, but I thought I’d alert you fantasy fans to a BBC series currently screening in the States which ought to fulfil our appetite for good onscreen fantasy while we wait for LOTR to start… Mervyn Peake’s ‘Gormenghast’ books are rich, ornate, enthralling fantasy – hard to read, but wow, this BBC production sounds like it’ll bring Peake’s masterpiece wonderfully alive. I can’t wait til it gets to NZ! I might even be forced to buy a TV!Check it out here
(Oh yeah. It’s got Christopher Lee (Our Saruman) in it, no doubt doing something deliciously EVIL….Nope, I’ve been informed I’m wrong. Lee gets to play a good guy. How often does that happen?)
Lately there’s news of filming over in the Wairarapa, that flat green plain that’s seperated from Wellington by the currently snow-covered Rimutakas. Jonny from The Realm of the Ring went over to see where the locations were being set up: we knew that the Carterton showground was being used in case of bad weather, but Jonny managed to find a fairweather location, it seems. (more)
Jonny from The Realm of the Ring gave us an update on the new film location in the Wairarapa.
“Yesterday I went up to Carterton to see if I could spot any filming.I found out that due to the good weather they were using an area just north of Featherston (another small town near Carterton -T.)There were two JAMB signs pointing up two driveways next to each other. One very very long-looking driveway headed up towards a rather expensive homestay place and the other going to a private property. Back down the road there was another driveway that had a cottage that you could hire for a night or so, this driveway angled back and ran parallel to the driveway that LOTR are using. The sign also said that the cottage was 1.8km from the road. So we headed down this driveway that ran parellel to the LOTR driveway and watched through the trees as we drove along I saw cones every here and there. At about 1.5km (on our driveway) there was like a checkpoint kind of setup(on the LOTR driveway) and then their path headed out into a paddock. I didn’t spot any stars or any filming.”
So there we are, slightly further ahead than we were. We know where, we just don’t know WHAT. Good luck finding out,Jonny!
That’s right 2 of the star’s from PJ’s first film ‘Bad Taste‘ Barry (Pete O’Herne) and Giles (Craig Smith) are going to be answering YOUR questions on June 23rd at 7pm in the TBHL chat room. They’ll be answering questions on Bad Taste, Experiences with PJ, Opinions on LOTR etc. [tbhl]
DW wrote to us concerning the film location being set up in Carterton:
“I have recently returned home to the little old Wairarapa, and was excited to find that the Claireville showgrounds was to be a filming site. I was rather confused to see the pictures that you showed of the showgrounds. It seems that the pictures you have of the Clareville Showgrounds are actually pictures of the larger and more impressive Palmerston North Showgrounds.
Oh well. Whoops. You get the general idea. Where might they be filming if the weather doesn’t drive them into the showgrounds?
Well, there’s this kind of stuff in the area…
