Message Board admin Altaira reminds us that today, March 25, is “Tolkien Reading Day.” According to The Tolkien Society, the event is “aimed at encouraging the use of Tolkien’s works in education and to get schoolteachers and library staff to participate in reading Tolkien to their classes and in their libraries.” And, as Altaira says, “Crack open those Tolkien books, and share them with a child if you can.” And really, why limit it to children? [More]
Day: March 25, 2004
Visit the lovely lakes… According to Billy Boyd’s official website Billy will be attending the Scandanavian Sci-Fi, Game and Film Convention in Malmö, Sweden on the 24 – 25 April 2004. Check out their website for more! [More]
Ringer Spy Diana alerted us to this press release right here. Amongst others it states that Sean Astin’s book about his months on set, ‘There and Back Again: An Actor’s Journey’ will be available for publication sometime this fall. Can’t wait to get my hands on it!
Ringer Spy Utkarsh sends in word about a blasphemy, a cinematic disaster in Chennai, India: “I was just wondering, do people know that ROTK was cut short by (at least) 15 minutes in Chennai (Tamil Nadu, India)?” [More]
Ringer Spy Utkarsh sends in word about a blasphemy, a cinematic disaster in Chennai, India.
I was just wondering, do people know that ROTK was cut short by (at least) 15 minutes in Chennai (Tamil Nadu, India)?
Remember the scene when the Hobbits are returning home and there is a voice-over saying something along the lines of “A year after Gandalf set us on our journey, we found ourselves back home…” right after that, almost before the sentence is completed, the scene is cut and the next thing they show is THE END. The entire farewell sequence is cut off.
A friend just told me that a lot of distributors in India do this and sometimes get away with it because people don’t usually notice. I wonder if it’s the same throughout the country or just in Chennai. I dont think New Line would have released it like that because it is very primitively cut; the music just suddenly stops and then changes, it’s just too obvious…
Shame on you Indian distributor!
Dr. Ralph Wood, professor of theology and literature at Baylor University in Waco, TX, will be the featured speaker at Campbell University’s Lecture-Symposium, Tuesday, March 30, at 7 p.m. in Scott Concert Hall of the Rogers Fine Arts Center. Wood’s topic, “J.R.R. Tolkien: Writer for Our Time of Terror,” explores the relationship between the works of the author of The Lord of the Rings and modern day terrorism. [More] Kudos to Lee for this link!