Take a gander at all the shows you can catch this week with your favorite LOTR stars! And, of course, don’t forget to catch ‘Quest for the Ring’ on FOX this thursday at 8PM ET!! [More]

Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn)

28 Days (2000)
Crimson Tide (1995)
Prophecy, The (1995)
American Yakuza (1994)
Young Americans, The (1993)
Ruby Cairo (1993)
Young Guns II (1990)
Fresh Horses (1988) UK
Witness (1985)

Liv Tyler (Arwen)

Plunkett & Macleane (1999) UK
Onegin (1999) UK
Can’t Hardly Wait (1998) UK
Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
That Thing You Do! (1996)

Ian Holm (Bilbo)

Bless the Child (2000)
Joe Gould’s Secret (2000)
Alice Through the Looking Glass (1998) (TV)
Sweet Hereafter, The (1997)
King Lear (1997) (TV) UK
Loch Ness (1995)
Madness of King George, The (1994) UK
Dance with a Stranger (1985)
Brazil (1985) UK
S.O.S. Titanic (1979) (TV)
Alien (1979) UK
Juggernaut (1974) UK
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) UK
Fixer, The (1968) UK

Sean Bean (Boromir)

Ronin (1998) UK
Black Beauty (1994) UK

Martyn Sanderson (Bree Gatekeeper)

Angel at My Table, An (1990) UK
Ned Kelly (1970)

David Weatherley (Barliman Butterbur)

“Potato Factory, The” (2000) (mini) UK

John Noble (Denethor)

Airtight (1999) (TV) UK

Peter Mackenzie (Elendil)

Chill Factor (1999)
Nick of Time (1995)
Lorenzo’s Oil (1992) UK
Off Limits (1988)

Karl Urban (Eomer)

Heaven (1998)

Hugo Weaving (Elrond)

Matrix, The (1999) UK
Bedrooms and Hallways (1998)
Interview, The (1998)
True Love and Chaos (1997) UK
Babe (1995) UK

Miranda Otto (Eowyn)

What Lies Beneath (2000) UK
True Love and Chaos (1997) UK

Ian Mune (unknown)

Piano, The (1993)

Elijah Wood (Frodo)

Faculty, The (1998) UK
Good Son, The (1993)
Radio Flyer (1992)
Forever Young (1992) UK
Paradise (1991)
Back to the Future Part II (1989)

Cate Blanchett (Galadriel)

Ideal Husband, An (1999)
Talented Mr. Ripley, The (1999) UK
Elizabeth (1998) UK
Paradise Road (1997) UK
Oscar and Lucinda (1997) UK

Ian McKellen (Gandalf)

X-Men (2000)
Restoration (1995)
And the Band Played On (1993) (TV)
Last Action Hero (1993)
Keep, The (1983) UK

John Rhys-Davies (Gimli)

Secret of the Andes (1998) UK
Cats Don’t Dance (1997)
Cyborg Cop (1994)
Tusks (1990)
Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam (1987) (TV)
Nairobi Affair (1984) (TV) UK
Victor/Victoria (1982)

Andy Serkis (Gollum)

Topsy-Turvy (1999) UK

Dominic Monaghan (Merry)

Hostile Waters (1997) (TV)

Bruce Spence (Mouth of Sauron)

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) UK
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) UK

Sean Astin (Sam)

Sky Is Falling, The (2000)
Kimberly (1999)
Deterrence (1999) UK
Icebreaker (1999)
Low Life, The (1994/I)
Safe Passage (1994)
Rudy (1993)
Encino Man (1992) UK
Where the Day Takes You (1992) UK
Toy Soldiers (1991) UK
War of the Roses, The (1989) UK
Goonies, The (1985)

Christopher Lee (Saruman)

Sleepy Hollow (1999) UK
Odyssey, The (1997) (TV)
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow (1994) UK
Return of the Musketeers, The (1989) UK
Safari 3000 (1982)
Last Unicorn, The (1982)
Serial (1980)
Arabian Adventure (1979) UK
1941 (1979)
Four Musketeers, The (1974) UK
Three Musketeers, The (1973) UK
Creeping Flesh, The (1973)
Death Line (1972) UK
Blood of Fu Manchu, The (1968) UK
Gorgon, The (1964) UK
City of the Dead, The (1960)
Beat Girl (1960)
Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1959) UK
Crimson Pirate, The (1952)
Valley of Eagles (1951) UK
My Brother’s Keeper (1948) UK

Bernard Hill (Theoden)

Loss of Sexual Innocence, The (1999) UK
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1999) UK
True Crime (1999) UK
Wind in the Willows, The (1996/I) UK
Gandhi (1982) UK

Brad Dourif (Wormtongue)

Shadow Hours (2000)
Storytellers, The (1999) UK
Urban Legend (1998) UK
Bride of Chucky (1998) UK
Death Machine (1995)
Color of Night (1994)
Escape from Terror: The Teresa Stamper Story (1994) (TV)
Trauma (1993)
Amos & Andrew (1993)
Body Parts (1991) UK
Child’s Play 3 (1991) UK
Child’s Play 2 (1990) UK
Exorcist III, The (1990)
Graveyard Shift (1990)
Mississippi Burning (1988)
Blue Velvet (1986) UK
Ragtime (1981)
Wise Blood (1979) UK

Jim Rygiel (SFX)

Anna and the King (1999)
Desperate Measures (1998)
Last Action Hero (1993)
Last of the Mohicans, The (1992)
Batman Returns (1992)
Ghost (1990)
Last Starfighter, The (1984)

Howard Shore (Composer)

Yards, The (2000)
High Fidelity (2000)
Dogma (1999)
That Thing You Do! (1996)
White Man’s Burden (1995)
Moonlight and Valentino (1995)
Ed Wood (1994)
Guilty as Sin (1993)
Single White Female (1992)
Prelude to a Kiss (1992)
Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)
Lemon Sisters, The (1990)
Innocent Man, An (1989)
She-Devil (1989)
Big (1988)
Fly, The (1986)
After Hours (1985)
Places in the Heart (1984)
Silkwood (1983)

To get more information, use the sites I use like:

mydigiguide.com, tv-now.com and IMDB.com

A few weeks ago I was phoned up by Camilla Maling of Radio NZ, who wanted to find out more about Tolkien fans. During the course of the interview that followed she confessed that she’d found the world of Tolkien fans to be nothing like what she’d imagined, and the resulting documentary promised to be extraordinary. [More]

The Lord of The Rings on Radio New Zealand.

A few months ago RNZ journalist Camilla Maling set out to make a couple of quick documentaries about the LOTR phenomenon in NZ. Within weeks it became obvious that the subject led down stranger roads and further afield than she had imagined. The programme expanded to fill two in depth 40-minute documentaries and they promise to be outstanding.

Outside of NZ people should be able to hear the broadcasts directly online on www.radionz.co.nz We are also seeing if the interviews can be posted up in a more permanent format.

“So who hasn’t heard of The Lord of The Rings, come on be honest… with a film crew well into the thousands, a book considered second to the Bible, creatures of all shapes and sizes, a medieval world with it’s own language, texts and genealogies, a setting in our own backyard and tales of bravery, tolerance and renunciation, how could you not? It’s almost fifty years since an Oxford don published stories of a fantasy world that would capture the imaginations of people all over the world, now it’s good old kiwi ingenuity that’s bringing Middle Earth to life! But there are stories and experiences that go far beyond the screen for those who have ever read that one line, “In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit.”…”

Part One: A Long- Expected Party Creating the World of the Lord of The Rings; prosthetic feet, helicopters, drunken dates, stunt men, waiters, harps and sex.

Part One airs on Sunday 9 December 4.04pm & Tuesday 11 December 12.06am, National Radio
[Saturday 8 December 10:04pm EST and Monday 11 December 6:06am EST]

Part Two
For twenty five years Bill has flown over the mountainous regions of New Zealand, but early one morning he came across a site that took his breath away. Within a month Peter Jackson was flying in the port-a-loos. She was in the back garden hanging out her washing when he leans over the fence, “hey babe fancy a ticket to the Lord of The Rings Wrap Party?” Before she knew it she was stepping from a limo into a glittering mass of photographers and walking the red carpet to the biggest party she’d ever been to. Watching her clock the chief medic counts out the seconds before she signals to ‘Cut’ and her team rushes to relieve Orc’s of their enormous heads, pour water down their rubber suits and check the vital signs of all on set.

Part Two: A Short Cut to Mushrooms What Middle Earth means to us and the rest of the world; fanaticism, theology, economics, imaginations and privacy. Tuesday 11 December 8.06pm & Tuesday 18 December 12.06am, National Radio [Tuesday 10 December 2:06am EST and Monday 17th Dec. 6:06am EST]

Three years ago, mother and daughter duo Kate and Karen packed their life’s possessions into a caravan, left their home in Timaru and began an epic journey of their own in search of adventure and magic, with a little LOTR location spotting along the way. In Tolkien’s novels Karen found a sense of belonging, a purpose to her life that had eluded her for so long. Back in the fifties, Douglas used to attend Tolkien’s lectures, “He wasn’t the worlds most exhilarating lecturer but he was a very impressive figure at the lectern in his gown, looking rather like a bard or a wizard, he seemed to know the derivation of every word in the English language.” Every morning Erica gets up, makes a cup of coffee and checks her emails which come in from Iran, Japan, London – her Ringer Spies are hard at work…”Good morning, look I just heard that Merry and Pippin steal carrots and not mushrooms in the film- I can’t believe they would change that!”

NB: Programmes produced by Camilla Maling for Radio New Zealand.

A season of classic New Zealand films is to coincide with the Lord of the Rings release. The programme, presented by the New Zealand Film Commission and Deluxe Cinemas, included original versions of movies such as Smash Palace, An Angel At My Table, The Scarecrow, Footrot Flats, and the record-breaking Once Were Warriors. [More]

No one doubts film-maker Peter Jackson has a pretty good imagination, but even he didn’t envisage that one day he’d hold an honorary doctorate in literature. [More]