It’s the last week to register at the cheaper Early Bird rates for Seattle’s Tolcon (May 13-15), and they have some good group rates too. Special guests include Ted Nasmith and Kiran Shah, who’ll have stories about his time on LOTR and the Narnia sets. [More]
Day: February 21, 2005
The Middle Earth Festival will be held in downtown Vacaville, CA April 7-10. Based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s tremendously popular “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, the festival will coincide with the 50th anniversary of Houghton Mifflin’s publication of “The Fellowship of the Ring.” The Middle Earth festival is family-oriented and features numerous old-time demonstrations including: chain-mail making, calligraphy, spinning and weaving. Artisans, crafters and food vendors will add to the festivities. Many other activities will help draw participants into the Middle Earth experience. [More]
The trailer for Elijah Wood’s new film ‘Hooligans’ has been posted online. It is about soccer “hooliganism” (violence and fighting before, after, and during a game), so naturally there is blood, mayhem and rock ‘n’ roll. (Adult Content Warning) [More]
River-Woman writes: Classicfm, the UK classical music station, is currently running its ‘Hall of Fame 2002’. What you have to do is vote for your top three classical tunes. The results are collated and the top 300 are played back to back over the Easter weekend, giving the ‘Ultimate Classical Chart’. The FOTR soundtrack is classed as ‘classical’ music, and is being given air play by the station. So if you want to vote for the soundtrack (which means it then gets MORE air time, log onto:- classicfm.com, go to ‘Hall of Fame’ and make your choices. [classicfm.com]
Sassy writes: Elijah Wood has been nominated for MTV’s Total Request Live 2005 Awards for “Quit Your Day Job (Best Guest Host)”. The award show is airs tonight (February 21st) on MTV. [More]
LEWISBURG — Actor Sean Astin will give the talk, “There and Back Again; An Actor’s Tale,” at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 1, in the Weis Center at Bucknell University. The talk, which is free to the public, is sponsored by the Bucknell Student Lectureship Committee. [More]