Frederik writes: I wanted you to know that Howard Shore will be performing a suite from the score of FOTR in Ghent (Belgium) on october 18th during the second World Soundtrack Awards. He might win the price for best score of 2002!

Here are the nominees for 2002 (and his competitors !):

Soundtrack Componist of the year:
– Patrick Doyle (“Gosford Park”)
– James Horner (“A Beautiful Mind”)
– Randy Newman (“Monsters Inc”)
– Howard Shore (“Lord of the Rings”)
– Hans Zimmer (“Black Hawk Down”)

Best original soundtrack of the year:
– “Black Hawk Down” (by Hans Zimmer)
– “Lord of the Rings” (by Howard Shore)
– “Monsters, Inc” (by Randy Newman)
– “Spider Man” (by Danny Elfman)
– “Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones” (by John Williams)


T.O. prepares for the nerd invasion

I think they should rename the city TORNonto while we’re there. Anyway I will be making my way over to Toronto for the Alliance Atlantis special exhibit of TTT Goodies! I will be there from October the 30th to November the 3rd. Come on down and join me! I’ll be giving out Hotel and contact info shortly, we’ll have an impromptu get together of TORN fans! See you there soon! [Get Tickets]

The Official New Line Shop has a new 14k solid gold version of ‘The One Ring’ for sale on their website. From what we understand, LOTRshop.com is currently the only place you can purchase this version of The Ring. Check it out! [More]

Today at 9:00 pm EDT, TheOneRing.net will be hosting a Developers chat with Black Label Games and Surreal Software. They’ll be discussing Surreal’s The Fellowship of the Ring for PS2 and PC, and Black Label Games’ future LOTR video games. If this is your cup of tea, be sure to come along and bring your questions!

For those in Europe: Saturday, October 19th, 2.00 am.
For those in the USA: Friday, October 18th 9:00 pm EDT, 6:00 PDT.

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That is only 61 days! Or 1464 hours!! Or 87840 Minutes!!! OMG only 5 million 274 thousand 4 hundred seconds!!! I’m getting in line now!!!

Today, October the 18th is Howard Shore’s birthday! Howard Shore, who won an Academy Award for his FOTR score, was born on October the 18th, 1946 in Toronto, Ontario. That makes him 56 today! Happy Birthday Howard!