Ringer Spy Morgoth1970 sends along yet some more new stills from LOTR: FOTR. Check these out! Highlight to read! Pippin in Moria, Lurtz attacking the Orc Overseer, and a rather scary looking fellow! !Spoilers! [More]
Day: September 2, 2001
Ringer Spy Morgoth1970 sends along yet some more new stills from LOTR: FOTR check these out! Pippin in Moria, Lurtz attacking the Orc Overseer, and a rather scary looking fellow!
With all our thoughts on DragonCon, movies, video games, stars, red carpets and Hollywood hoopla, we can tend to forget the English Professor who took a blank sheet of paper and wrote ‘In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit…’ Those were the words that started an adventure which has lasted over 1/2 a century and captured the minds and hearts of hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Today, the 2nd of September, marks the death JRR Tolkien. We’d like to thank you, Professor, for everything.
Down from the door where it began…
There has been so much going on at this year’s DragonCon, we are going to have to wait until Monday to give you the full details. I can tell you this…TheOneRing.net’s presentation of “Lord of the Rings: Secrets Revealed” so packed a room that the Fire Marshal closed it. With a capacity crowd of 3000, we showed them the cast, locations, trailers and some cool exclusive stuff. Everyone loved it. The biggest cheers were for the casting of Ian McKellen (Gandalf), Christopher Lee (Saruman), John Rhys-Davies (Gimli), and Brad Dourif (Wormtongue).
Now if you didn’t get to DragonCon, you still have a day (today) to come by and visit TheOneRing.net booth. We’ll be playing parts of the presentation all day along with the trailers.
But if you are no where near Atlanta, get down to Philadelphia for another exclusive presentation at this year’s WorldCon! It’s happening today at 5 pm, and it’s the same presentation from Atlanta… so don’t miss it! [More]
Music from Denmark, Russia, and Finland (where they REALLY know how to pronounce Elvish…) [More]
The recently-mentioned Tolkien Ensemble has 3 concerts coming up soon in Rundetaarn in Copenhagen, home of quite a few Ringer fans. The programme will be both old \”hits\” and brand new songs to be released on the next CD “At Dawn in Rivendell.”
Concert-dates:
6 October, 8PM
11 October, 8PM
3 November, 8PM
Meanwhile, Adriana sent me an mpeg of Galadriel’s Song of Lorien featuring original music composed by Pavel Fomitchov as well as the lovely voice of mezzo-soprano Evgenia Zamchalova, both Russian. You can download this and other songs here I complained that I could do without the synthesiser backing, so she responded by sending me an mpeg of the lament , “Namarie” which she says “is sung by a Finnish group (perfect Elvish pronunciation). While the style is quiet, they make use of real instruments.”
This one wouldn’t play for me. I’ll let you know when I find out more about it.
Please don’t send me any more mpegs, folks, they tie up my computer for hours. Though thanks for the generous impulse!