Archive for June 15th, 2001

Tolkien on RB.com

Friday, June 15th, 2001 Posted in Old Main News

From: TerriThe unabridged audiobook version of Lord of The Rings is moving up the most-requested list at recordedbooks.com. The Fellowship of The Ring is at #2, The Two Towers is ... Read more..

LOTR on Access Hollywood

Friday, June 15th, 2001 Posted in Old Main News

My sister acutally helped out with this one. Access Hollywood spotlighted LOTR in their 'Staggering Stat' segment. They mentioned how much money the LOTR production generated for the NZ economy. Read more..

LOTR on Starz!

Friday, June 15th, 2001 Posted in Old Main News

From: Iarwain Ben-adar I was watching the Starz movie channel's movie series "Starz! Movie News" today when to my surprise I saw a segment on the LOTR movie. They had ... Read more..

Doh! We didn’t do it…

Friday, June 15th, 2001 Posted in Old Main News

The New Line store is offline until June 28th. Why? You're guess is as good as ours, but I have a feeling the success of the LOTR products was a ... Read more..

Good News for Brazilian LOTR Fans

Friday, June 15th, 2001 Posted in Old Main News

Word comes today that Fellowship of the Ring will be released on December 21st 2001 in Brazil! This is good news for the folks in Brazil who thought they would ... Read more..

WE WON!

Friday, June 15th, 2001 Posted in Old Main News

Today I went to check on the results of the recent 'What is the best Trilogy' poll and found it was gone! So I emailed the nice folks at DTS ... Read more..

Bad Taste put to the vote

Friday, June 15th, 2001 Posted in Old Main News

Gross-out films: love them or hate them? That is what's being put to vote over at FilmFour.com. Why does that interest us you ask? Because Peter Jackson's Bad Taste is ... Read more..

Kiwis to Get LOTR First

Friday, June 15th, 2001 Posted in Old Main News

By Kim Griggs Wired.comWELLINGTON, New Zealand -- If you don't receive an invitation to the premiere, then the place to be for die-hard Lord of the Rings fans on Dec. ... Read more..

Barrie Osbourne to Receive Award

Friday, June 15th, 2001 Posted in Old Main News

LOTR producer and all around nice guy Barrie Osbourne has left New Zealand, if only for a little while. Osbourne is flying to Carleton College in Northfield Minnesota to receive ... Read more..

Tolkien and Me

Friday, June 15th, 2001 Posted in Old Main News

By Tom Shippey I first met J.R.R. Tolkien shortly before he died, in the autumn of 1972. I had just been appointed to a job teaching Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, and ... Read more..