URUK HI THERE writes: I live in LA and work in the movie business, so I was able to go to the first Academy Awards screening of ROTK yesterday. Thanksgiving day, and they still filled a big theater – I think that says something about the enthusiasm of LOTR’s many fans in the film industry! !!!Spoilers!!! [More]
Day: November 28, 2003
Kris writes” There is a 5 mins audio report on The World today: The last movie in the Lord of the Rings trilogy has its world premiere on Monday in Wellington, New Zealand, home of director Peter Jackson. Jackson transformed his homeland into Tolkien’s Middle Earth for the big budget epic and its success has transformed the lives of many New Zealanders. Correspondent Colin Peacock reports. [More]
John Howe writes: “The Lord of the Rings: From Imagination to Image” will open at the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris in two and a half weeks. The exhibition will run from December 14th 2003 to February 15th 2004, and is composed of 120 concept drawings and paintings by Alan Lee and I from the film trilogy. [More]
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John Howe writes: “The Lord of the Rings: From Imagination to Image” will open at the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris in two and a half weeks. The exhibition will run from December 14th 2003 to February 15th 2004, and is composed of 120 concept drawings and paintings by Alan Lee and I from the film trilogy.
I’ve never even set foot in the National Library in Paris, (I’ve always felt much too scruffy and uncultured to even walk past in front of the building) so this is going to be a real treat.
This is also the FIRST time the artwork has been shown in Europe with the exception of the little show at the Geneva Book Fair and the few pieces that are in the show in London. The artwork has been selected to take the viewer from Bag End to the Grey Havens and points between.
TheImagineTree writes: There is a short interview with Hugo Weaving in the December 2003 issue of Maxim magazine. [More]
Jennifer writes: There is an exhibition opening on Monday 12.30pm called JRR Tolkien and the First World War. It will be held at the Somme Heritage Centre, Conlig. Think they are going to have a lecture and discussions as well. [Somme Heritage Centre]