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The Caption Comedy Contest ends Oct 31st. Submit your caption for an image of the Fellowship and win great prizes, including a SideShow/WETA Frodo Figure, a copy of Heavenly Creatures on DVD, or The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien. [More]
The Third Annual Halloween Costume Contest is in full swing. Send images of your Tolkien related Halloween costume to us and win amazing stuff. Each winner will receive over $100 dollars in LOTR merchandise from Sideshow/WETA Collectibles and Fantasy Flight Games! [More]
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Longtime New Line studio spokesman Steve Elzer has left the company, TORN has learned. Elzer, who is highly regarded within the entertainment industry and has been a longtime friend to me is considering a number of opportunities.
Steve was Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications with New Line, and one hell of a great guy. We met online years ago and our mutual LOTR interests quickly became a friendship. I hope Steve lands somewhere really interesting and can continue to give us juicy tid-bits on LOTR in the future!
Best of luck Steve, New Line will be different without you.
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Throughout the months of shooting the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, at times Peter Jackson has had to make decisions to tinker with the way the books have been written so that they can be adapted onto the cinema screen, and of course fit within a nine hour timeframe. One of these decisions involved changing a theme that is a strong thread woven through J.R.R’s literature, and bears with it some moral questions. Originally Tolkien wrote in the Silmarillion that orcs were created by the evil and perverse corruption of Elves, but instead when we go to see the Fellowship of the Ring, we will see a story about orc pods, genetically engineered armies of evil. This weekend, the Hall of Fire discusses Orc Breeding – The Interpratations of J.R.R Tolkien and Peter Jackson.
For some people, the way Peter Jackson is approaching the concept of Orc Breeding is a smart one. Time constraints, certification, editing out scenes, all these thing Peter Jackson had to take into account when writing the screenplay, and it seems the sum of these parts has created the story we will see over the next three years. The idea of a genetically created army of evil, hatched in cacoons and pods in the deep dungeons underneath Orthanc does have it’s own moral weight, and is in it’s own way appropriate in the 21st Century, where cloning is such a hotly discussed issue.
But is that an excuse to change another fundamental part of Tolkien’s Middle-Earth creation? What would J.R.R say if he knew his vision of elves corrupted horribly by some dark lord is now reduced to some typically-Hollywood plotline involving some make-up and special effects. Must we suffer another needless, pointless story change which is a pale reflection on the original text? Do the advantages of adding this idea into the plot really outweight the disadvantages?
You might share the first view, you might share the latter, you may have a mild interest in the topic and no opinion, or have more important things to worry about. Whatever category you fall into, we want to see you visit us this weekend, as we host what promises to be another great debate!
Recommended Reading:
FAQ Movie Changes Page >
FOTR Trailer II Frame-by-Frame Analysis >
Lurtz Character Page>
LOTR Student Planner: Orc Birth >
Numenoreen Images: Various Cocoons 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8
Upcoming Discussions:
Oct 13 & 14: FotR Chapter Discussion – The Bridge of Khazad-dûm
Oct 20 & 21: FotR Movie Discussion – The Cast
Oct 27 & 28: FotR Chapter Discussion – Lothlórien
Place:
#thehalloffire on theonering.net server; come to theonering.net’s chat room Barliman’s and then type /join #thehalloffire .
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Decipher continues to update daily. Check out the havens to view all the newest images and learn about Decipher’s sixth contest! [More]
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The following is from a radio interview with Liv Tyler as she talks “The Lord of the Rings”.
You seem to take a lot of time between projects.
“Oh, I always do that. It always seems like that whenever…I always seem to work, to do a couple of things in a row and then, just stop. It’s not necessarily like, ‘Oh, I’m going to take a year off now.’ It’s just that something doesn’t come up that I really like. Also, for me, I think that it is really important to be at home and just be a normal girl and learn about myself and my life and just to get to spend time with people around me. [More]
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Sean Astin, who plays Sam Gamgee in Peter Jackson’s upcoming Lord of the Rings films, told SCI FI Wire that he learned “so much” about the acting craft as a result of his participation in the big-screen adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s trilogy. “I learned a lot about my voice, about my body,” said Astin, who put on 30 pounds to portray the Hobbit gardener who joins Frodo (Elijah Wood) and the other members of the fellowship on the treacherous journey to Mt. Doom to destroy the Ring. [More]
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