Last week the Messageboarders came up with a thread that made me spit my breakfast out my nose….
Continue ReadingLast week the Messageboarders came up with a thread that made me spit my breakfast out my nose. This is NOT for the fainthearted, I tell you.
Goldberry, Aragorn, Arwen or another possibility for Arwen and last, but FAR from least, Galadriel
Oh, and how could I forget….Luthien!
When it comes to medieval arms and armour, few people know as much as Joe Piela of the Lonely Mountain Forge. A longtime Tolkien fan, he agreed to look at all the images we had of arms and armour in the film production. The result is this great article! (more)
Yesterday we reported the sad news of Rayner Unwin’s death. A correspondent wrote in with a few lines which summed up the importance Rayner had to Tolkien and his fans – who would never have existed without Rayner’s intervention.
“Rayner Unwin was the person who first reviewed The Hobbit (when aged 10), and on his advice his father Sir Stanley published it. He was paid one shilling for the review.
Rayner Unwin was also the person responsible for getting the Lord of the Rings published. The necessary permission from his father came in a cable:
IF YOU [Rayner] THINK IT [LotR] A WORK OF GENIUS THEN YOU MAY LOSE £1000.
And the rest is history”
The latest set at Mt. Vic is certainly accessible. That makes a change! The reports have been coming in (more)
Hi there TORN people,
I went to look at the Mount Victoria Set after seeing it in the Evening Post. I live out at Lyall Bay so I knew the set that used to be out that way.
The set at Mount Victoria does almost look identical to it, with the same type of tents that have beautiful detailing around the entrance-ways. The layout of the Mount Victoria set is almost identical to the set that used to be at Lyall Bay.
But I do not think they are reshooting scenes that someone wrote in about though I did see the same sort of soldiers at the new set: Rohan soldiers, mounted on horses, and foot soldiers.
The following might be a clue to where this set is meant to be: I saw a woman dressed as a man, with a hobbit. I never saw a woman and a Hobbit at the Lyall Bay set. I have only read the book once some years ago so I don’t know the story that well. But I do remember there being a Lady of Rohan, who dressed as a man, and went into battle with a hobbit. Sorry I don’t remember their names. I will leave that up to you to work out!
Somebody got to the new set pretty quickly and sent us a report on the background as well as an intriguing guess (more)
