Archive for March, 2003

TTT Loses Best Art Direction Oscar

Sunday, March 23rd, 2003 Posted in Old Main News

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers has just lost the Best Art Direction Oscar to Chicago. Read more..

TTT Wins Best Visual Effects Oscar!

Sunday, March 23rd, 2003 Posted in Old Main News

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers has just won the Best Visual Effects Oscar. Congratulations to Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook, and Alex Funke, the ... Read more..

Peter Jackson interview onTVNZ

Sunday, March 23rd, 2003 Posted in Old Main News

Hamish writes, "I did a video capture of last night's interview with Peter Jackson on the TV1 show 'SUNDAY' at 7pm. Its about 13mb, and in Real Player format. ... Read more..

Pub Moot in LA.

Sunday, March 23rd, 2003 Posted in Old Main News

The Official Fan Club in LA held a Pub Moot and other fun activities as a warm-up to the Oscars - many of them will be at TheOneParty by now ... Read more..

Do You Want to Make PJ Proud?

Sunday, March 23rd, 2003 Posted in Old Main News

A few weeks ago we mentioned that PJ and Fran Walsh had thrown their support behind a programme to increase public awareness of the need for organ donors in order ... Read more..

More on LOTR Weapons

Sunday, March 23rd, 2003 Posted in Old Main News

Fingolfin writes, "An addition to yesterday's post about the upcoming UC blades: I also read on BladesbyBrown.com an interview with UC designer Kit Rae, and he also says that ... Read more..

TTT Soundtrack Clips

Sunday, March 23rd, 2003 Posted in Old Main News

NineCompanions.net is running a great service, offering little soundclips from TTT that you can download, including favourite moments like 'Now for wrath, now for ruin, and a red dawn,' ... Read more..

Cast Watch: Sir Ian McKellen updates

Sunday, March 23rd, 2003 Posted in Old Main News

Sir Ian is running a diary on his life on and around the X-Men set in Vancouver, similar to the Grey Book which recorded his experiences while filming LOTR. [More]Thanks ... Read more..

Does Oscar Speak Elvish?

Sunday, March 23rd, 2003 Posted in Old Main News

Ianthe writes: This morning's Boston Globe thumbnail piece in the "The Examined Life" column cites JRRT's creation of irregular word forms, and solicits feedback to David Salo, linguistics grad student ... Read more..

So Who’s Going to Hollywood?

Sunday, March 23rd, 2003 Posted in Old Main News

People are asking if any LOTR people will be in Hollywood let alone TheOneParty. Maori Hobbit wrote in to say that the Wellington newspaper, Sunday News, mentioned that Craig ... Read more..

Lee and McKellen on Classic FM in the UK

Saturday, March 22nd, 2003 Posted in Old Main News

From Aniron: Classic FM in the UK has a program in the evening called "Natalie Wheen at 11." She said that she would be talking to Christopher Lee on ... Read more..

Viggo and ‘The Spoken Word Revolution’

Saturday, March 22nd, 2003 Posted in Old Main News

House of Telcontar has a blurb about Viggo's latest anthologized work, in something called "The Spoken Word Revolution," here (under March 21 entry). Thanks to Wee Tanya for the link. Read more..