Oscar-winning composer Howard Shore arrives in London on February 9 to conduct the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the UK première of his Fellowship of the Ring for Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Classic FM has five pairs of tickets to give away to the event. [More]
Day: December 27, 2002
Faithful Ringer Ataahua emailed saying, The New Zealand Herald, NZ’s premier daily newspaper, has announced its top 20 films of 2002 – and has put TTT at only number 11. [More]
Shawna adds to Simon’s list of the themes or leitmotifs in the Rings soundtracks so far. [More] A few people have written in to say that the fiddle we hear in the Rohan theme is a Hardanger fiddle.
After protests by Japanese fans about the inaccurate subtitles in FOTR , word came that TTT was going to use a different translator. Now the Japanese distributor is denying this, and the Japanse fans fear another botched translation. [More]
A while back we thought we’d made a difference – New Line got to hear about the substandard translations being done for the Japanese versions of the films, and Peter Jackson reportedly asked for that problem to be addressed. Whether it’s a case of Japanese distributor saving face, or a misunderstanding, it seems that nothing is being done after all.
Japanse LOTR fan Herbalist writes, “We were so glad to hear PJ say, “We did change the person (to do the Japanese translation)” on TVNZ. But today the Japanese distributor, Nippon Herald Inc., OFFICIALLY made the announcement: they say that PJ never told them anything of the sort and that they do mean to keep the SAME TRANSLATOR Natsuko Toda.
“In her subtitles we had to see Frodo say to Boromir, “You are a liar!” and dozens of other terrible lines degrading your FotR! And she has never admitted her fault, on the contrary, she openly and repeatedly declares that she did not and would not read Tolkien’s books!
“THE SHAMELESS TRANSLATOR STAYS IN SPITE OF WHAT PJ SAID ! Nippon Herald Inc. insists they have HEARD NOTHING FROM PJ!”
Herbalist goes on to say that she feels that FOTR suffered at the box office as a result, and offers the figures from BoxOffice Mojo as evidence – the numbers for FOTR seem pretty low.
TTT opened in Australia on the 26th, and smashed box office records. [More] Thanks to Deegan for the link.