From: Gothmog and Wife
The October 2001 issue of the UK edition of Total Film Magazine has not only a four page article on the first part of the LOTR trilogy (including an interview with Peter Jackson) but a free double sided poster! One side is of the hobbits together, the other is of Arwen wielding her sword. The article is part of the mag’s preview special section for 2002. Lots of nice pics of the cast, including one at the council of Elrond I certainly haven’t seen. Fabulous stuff!
Anyone with a scanner, send the article along!
From: DonQuijote
Having lived in Berlin as an exchange student for a year, I like to keep up with my favorite Bundesliga team, Hertha BSC Berlin. Imagine my surprise when I discovered an article about the Greek defenseman Kostas Konstantinidis (today’s evidently his birthday) entitled “1379 Seiten Mittelerde (1379 Pages of Middle Earth)”. [More]
From: DonQuijote
Having lived in Berlin as an exchange student for a year, I like to keep up with my favorite Bundesliga(national footba–er, soccer, league) team, Hertha BSC Berlin. Imagine my surprise when I discovered an article about the Greek defenseman Kostas Konstantinidis (today’s evidently his birthday) entitled “1379 Seiten Mittelerde (1379 Pages of Middle Earth)”
Berlin– Kostas Konstantinidis has made some plans for the near future. To be exact, 1379 pages. Not all at once; Kostas just doesn’t have enough time for that! No, Kostas advances slowly but surely. His plans are facilitated by the fact that his reading material is already divided. It all begins with the “Fellowship.” Then Kostas should be approached by “Two Towers,” and finally the “Return of the King.” Insiders know: Kostas Konstantinidis is reading Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings.” We don’t know if the legends of the Hobbit-world are included in his hand-baggage. But we know Kostas’ current destination quite well: Finland…where he will play in the defense of the Greek national team…On September 6th (at the latest), Frodo, Gandalf, and Sauron will play the leading roles in his imagination once more…For his 29th birthday, coach Röber could give him a movie ticket. On the 20th of December, Kostas’s current reading material comes to the big screen.”
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, war comes to the world of the Hobbits first as a rumour, a distant echo of far-off fighting. Then suddenly the Shire, the cozy and comfortable land of the Hobbits, is engulfed in strife. For fans of Tolkien’s great fantasy, the marketing campaign surrounding director Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings film trilogy resembles warfare in Middle-earth, as once inaudible noises seem to be getting nearer and more ominous. [More]
Thanks to Pascale for the tip!
From: Tom
I just recently became aware of a brief LOTR special on EXTRA that I suppose is part of an upcoming films preview. It will be airing on friday August, 31 7:00pm(EST) on the show EXTRA on NBC.
The Internet Movie Database has a few new names on it’s LOTR Cast page. They say that young Taea Hartwell (The Frighteners) will play a child Hobbit, Peter Mackenzie (The In Crowd, Chill Factor) is set to play Elendil. I’ve also been getting news that Cameron Rhodes (Dark Knight [TV]) will play Farmer Maggot and not Ian Mune as previously thought…are ANY of these casting rumors true? Only time, and a little digging, will tell (I cannot beleive I’m posting casting rumors with a few months left until the film opens, SOMEONE send me a complete cast list!).
