Ringer Spy Ares sends in this article from ‘Total Film Magazine’ April 2001. Click on the images above to enlarge.
Day: March 15, 2001
Access Hollywood did a small piece on Liv Tyler’s (Arwen) marriage news. AH reported the news via Liv’s famous dad, Steven Tyler of Areosmith. Liv will marry rocker Royson Langdon of the band ‘Spacehog’.
Further to our report from an extra who took part in a scene with Sauron (see below) we got some good thoughts about it from you. [More]
Good fun opening the email this morning! Thanks to all of you who wrote in. Some of you pointed out that since there were NINE wringraiths surrounding Sauron, and there’s only eight of them left by the end of LOTR, the scene that was reported to us is more likely to be from LOTR’s pre-history – like The Battle of the Last Alliance. Joe wrotein to say that in Tolkien’s own pictures of Sauron, he drew him with the spiked armour as described in the scene. On the other hand, Stevanos tells us “It looks like PJ (or whoever designed the costume) has based it on the description of Morgroth when he and Fingolfin duel it out in The Silmarillion. Morgroth’s hammer was called Grond, the very weapon the Battering Ram at the Siege of Minas Tirith was named after: “The Hammer of the Underworld”.
Jason told us about the John Howe painting that shows this spiked armour on Melkor. You can see it in Rolozo Tolkien, here
Thing is, who influenced who? Did Howe base his picture of Melkor on Tolkien’s picture of Sauron? Did the designers for the film base their vision of Sauron on either of those? John Howe and Alan Lee are the conceptual artists for the film, after all.
From: Demosthenes
I found this little snippet about Cate Blanchett (Galadriel) in the latest edition (March 17) of New Idea (a popular Australian women’s magazine).
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