Mirjam is reporting that gaan.nl is advertising that locals can win a trip to Middle Earth. You get a camera to film at the locations in New Zealand, and that film will be aired on Holland TV. [More]
Month: October 2001
From Yossy:
I wanted to inform you that the openinig date of the LOTR film in Israel is scheduled to the 20th of december so I think we will be one of the first countries to see it after the opening in the US on the 19th. I am pretty sure this is an official date as I heard it in a TV program.
Ringer Spy Daggerz chimes in to tell us to tune in this Sunday to watch Enya on CBS Sunday Morning. Check your local listings!
There were hobbits in all kinds of sauces and cooking at the Kosmos and Ravensburger boothes, not to speak of the fantasy / ccg hall. None of the new big boxes games settled in Middle-Earth seems to have the depth, interest and originality of Reiner Knizia’s Lord of the Rings, published one year before, and for which the Bree & Isengard expansion was unveiled at the fair. Among the smaller boxes, it’s once more Reiner Knizia who made for the best adaptation of the book with his LotR card game, published by Ravensburger. A clever bidding and placement system of character and places cards recreates some of the flow of the story. Unfortunately, the game is illustrated with bad pictures from the movie. All hobbits have the same irish drunkard faces, and Gandalf looks like a macrobiotic garderner. It’s a pity, since this clever game clearly deserved a true graphich work. [More]
Thanks to Ostadan from the Greenbooks for the note.
I also started the Bree Set (the next place in the hobbits route). Here you can see the first taste: a nice old-looking Bree house! (soon you’ll have the “Prancing Pony” Tavern too).
As Tolkien explained, Bree has a reasonable Hobbit population, specially in holes and small houses around the hill, so, as you pointed, Bree scenario will probably have some hobbit-hole areas.
The Bree house looks incredibly accurate to the set pictures we’ve seen from the movies. You can check out Josef Bugman’s message board Here, where you can even volunteer your services to the project.
Compare the two images for yourself! The one on the right is straight from our spy pics of the Bree set. Remarkable how much attention Josef has put into fashioning this game after the likeness of the movie.
Check out our exclusive interview with Josef Bugman on the game Here.
The ‘Ultimate Movie Poll’ conducted by Empire, the number one film magazine in Britain has been concluded after more than two months of voting. One of the most prestigous polls out there, the cast & crew of Lord of the Rings featured very well in most fields. Hugo Weaving’s The Matrix was in the top five films and also appeared in the best soundtrack and trailer fields. Brad Douriffs’s One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Bernard Hill’s Titanic, Ian Holm’s Alien and John Rhys-Davies‘s Raiders of the Lost Ark came in 49, 34, 23 and 11 in the top 50 respectively. Cate Blanchett was voted the 15th best actress, Peter Jackson was the 23rd best director, and Lord of the Rings itself picked up the number one spot for the Best Trailer. [More]