Satarina writes: I just wanted to let you know that at DragonCon this year all three movies will be shown on Sunday back to back. They start at 12:30 pm as part of the conventions Film Festival. [dragoncon.org]
Day: August 13, 2004
Folks from The Fellowship Festival write: For the Londoners amongst you, go and buy today’s copy of Evening Standard, London’s biggest newspaper and you can win the chance to enter a competition to be transformed into an Orc by Gino Acevedo from Weta Workshop at the forthcoming Fellowship Festival (28th – 30th August 2004, Alexandra Palace). Gino will be transforming three lucky readers, one for every day of the show into a gruesome Orc as part of his live make-up demonstration. For details on how to enter this once in a lifetime competition, go and buy The Evening Standard.
Natalia writes: I thought you would be interested in seeing this. A couple in the Philippines had a Lord of the Rings wedding. The couple planned every single wedding detail around middle earth. [More]
The folks from twenty-five-percent.com write: News got out today that Karl Urban (Eomer) will attend RingCon in Bonn/Germany by the end of October. The website is not updated yet as the webmaster is on holidays. But Karl Urban’s appearance is confirmed. Tickets are still available at ringcon.de
universalmusicstore.com is auctioning off some interesting items for ‘Songs of Hope’. CanadianCricket writes: As of this time bids for this Return of the King/Into the West sheet music signed by Annie Lennox are only at $51! I have to believe that with a little help from exposure on TORN’s main page that much much more could be raised for this worthy cause! [More]
Matt in Minneapolis writes: Naomi Watts appeared on Leno Thursday night. She mentioned that she loves monkeys and then they brought one out for her. Then she mentioned meeting Fay Ray. She went with PJ and Fran to the top of the Empire State Building, and much higher than most people get to go.