We’ve been keeping you up to date with news about Diamond_T’s new cookbook “Regional Cooking from Middle-earth: Recipes of the Third Age”. The cookbook is now available for preorder from the locations she has listed at the end of her letter: [More] Updated!
Day: November 8, 2002
We’ve been keeping you up to date with news about Diamond_T’s new cookbook “Regional Cooking from Middle-earth: Recipes of the Third Age”.
The cookbook (which is pictured directly below) is now available for pre-order from the locations she has listed at the end of her letter:
Hello Dear Cousins,
Thank you again for your interest in my cookbook. Beginning on November 11th (just in time for those parties and cooking to watch that extended DVD for 9 1/2 hours)… the cookbook will be available! You can walk in or order from the following locations… (the first location will ship anywhere in the world, even if you use checks!) Call and RESERVE YOUR COPY IN ADVANCE!!! I would be very sad if some of you ordered and it was sold out. Make sure that you tell them when you will be in to pick up, or if you want it shipped, be sure to include all of your pertinent information. IF there is a back order, it will only be about 48 hours, and then shipped the same day it is received. It’s $25 US. PA sales tax is 6%. Shipping will vary, but they will go out priority mail unless otherwise specified. We have an excellent order center! Thanks again for your interest, and I hope you love the cookbook as much as I enjoyed writing it.
Many blessings to you and yours this holiday season.
All the best,
Emerald/Diamond_T
Mandala Books (the one that will ship anywhere)
211 South Craig Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412-682-2703
Phantom of the Attic
214 South Craig St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412-682-6290
potalert@yahoo.com
Duppstadt’s Country Store (Somerset County, PA)
Route 30 East
Buckstown, PA 15563
814-754-4400
Pete’s Bookstore (beginning Nov. 12)
212 W. Main St.
Somerset, PA 15501
814-443-0931
Lexequine noticed something in the latest LOTR “Making of” book where Alan Lee mentions a ‘roller-coaster tracking shot’ to ‘foundations of stone’ that sounds like the ‘great plunge’ opening that was hinted at by the screenwriters….[More]
Here’s a theory from Lexequine which is very persuasive to me. She writes:
I bought the book “The Making of the Movie Trilogy” on Wednesday and have been madly reading it ever since. It is a wonderful book. But I am not writing this to tell you how wonderful the book is. I know that there has been a lot of speculation about the opening scenes for TTT. I think we get the definitive answer from Alan Lee himself. Found this on page 51:
Alan also produced many concepts for a possible sequence depiciting the struggle between Gandalf and the Balrog: their fall deep into the abyss beneath Khazad-dum and, deeper still, through fire and water, to the uttermost foundations of stone; then their long wearisome climb, by secret ways and the many thousand steps of the Endless Stair, to the highest peak of the Misty Mountains and a final, catalysmic confrontation. He sifts through his sketches of the Endless Stair, which twists and turns in a mase of Esher-like illusions: “I wanted to convey a feeling that they are struggling in an unreal space — somewhere between life and death — Gandalf pursuing the Balrog up, down and around; now coming toward you, now rushing away, a roller-coaster of a tracking shot, during which the whole axis might turn, creating the vertiginous feeling of not knowing which way up you are!”
Now doesn’t that sound like a Jackson-like opener? And I love the mention of the “Foundations of Stone” which is the first track on the soundtrack.
In Chicago tomorrow, as part of the Humanities Festival, Tom Shippey is giving a talk entitled “Trees, Chainsaws, and the Vision of Paradise in J.R.R. Tolkien.” It’s from 1 to 2 pm and it’s at Harold Washington College, 30 E. Lake St. Tickets are no longer available online so if anyone wants some they should go at least a half hour early! More info here Thanks to Tygrestick for the info.
Okay, IMDB has corrected its earlier story. It writes that, according to a New Line Cinema publicist, reports that TTT was incomplete are erroneous. According to New Line, the movie will make its December 18th release on schedule, with no delays of any kind. [More]