Check out this week’s edition (Feb 16th, 2001) of Entertainment Weekly for a few mentions of Lord of the Rings.
Page 29 : A New Lineup – With a slump at the box office and a change at the top, will the home of Austin Powers find its mojo again? [More]
Page 103: Ringing Endorsement – The Internet was crawling with wizards and orcs and elves: Tolkien buffs got into the hobbit of downloading the heavily hyped trailer of Lord of the Rings, which led the pack at both Film.com and Dark Horizons. Close on its heels was another lick with heavy web buzz, Tomb Raider. [More]
Thanks to Ringer spy Gilfanon for sending us these scans of the magazine.
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Well folks, Ebay.com has a signed first edition of The Hobbit. You will definitely need a large checkbook to bid on this one! But even if you can’t buy it, check out the auction for some great images of this amazing Tolkien collectible. [More]
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IN their 1996 film “Forgotten Silver,” the directors Peter Jackson and Costa Botes tell the story of Colin McKenzie, a plucky New Zealander who, as a young man in the early years of the 20th century, built a bicycle-powered movie camera, with which he captured history’s first tracking shot and made his own film stock out of flax leaves. [More]
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Everyone agrees that ‘The Lord of the Rings’ has stood almost alone as a landmark in fantasy literature. People often ask if there’s anything written since that can compare. With the completion of Philip Pullman’s trilogy ‘His Dark Materials’, I’m satisfied I’ve got my answer to that question, anyway. [More]
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Christopher Lee (Saruman) was in Germany this past weekend. He was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award at Deutscher Videopreis (German Video Awards) 2001 Gala. [More]
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MSN.com showcase the ‘Lord of the Rings’ preview on their homepage, with a nice little montage image to draw attention to it. [More]
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