Other people’s routines can often seem strange. For a year and a half Billy Boyd lived in a rented home in near Wellington, New Zealand. At 4.30 most mornings a car would pick him up to take him to a nearby film set. By dawn the 33-year-old Scots actor, still half asleep, would be in a make-up van being transformed into Pippin, a 3ft 6in hobbit in J R R Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. [More]
Day: October 7, 2001
From: Anthony
I am reading alot of the reports concerning the new Toy Biz LOTR figures, and thought since I have bought a number of them I should throw in my 2 cents. [More]
Not sure if this is new but I thought I’d post anyway. From staffer Berendir: I was in the bookstore today at South Station and found this book. It’s sort of a tribute book to JRR Tolkien. [More]
UK magazine SFX will have an exclusive on-set report for LOTR in their next issue no. 85 due on 2nd November.
Thanks Richard! And woohoo!!
Ringer Eowyn sends in word of LotR movie theater popcorn tubs! I work in a UGC cinema in England and… I was flicking through the merchandising and promotional booklet to tell staff what is coming up and I thought you may be intrested to know UGC will be getting LOTR popcorn tubs… 3 different tubs each with a different character…
The Howard Shore score for the Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring is now available to pre-order at Amazon. With a release date of November 13, this is the closest thing to seeing the Fellowship of the Ring until December 19th. [More]