Tim Richardson, Director of “The Dork of the Rings” writes: After weeks of mind-numbing preparation, my follow dorks and I descended on Seattle for their annual Tolkien convention May 13-15, 2005. We appeared as Special Guests and ran two panel discussions on the making of THE DORK OF THE RINGS. [More]
Day: May 17, 2005
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Tim Richardson, Director of “The Dork of the Rings” writes: After weeks of mind-numbing preparation, my follow dorks and I descended on Seattle for their annual Tolkien convention May 13-15, 2005.
We appeared as Special Guests and ran two panel discussions on the making of THE DORK OF THE RINGS. We also had a promotional booth where we ran video clips and people could be harassed by characters from the movie including Randolf, Frudo, Martha the Steward and a Nosedrool. We also premiered our finished trailer at their FanFilm Exhibition.
Those who made the trip with me included Ian Strandberg (Art Coordinator), Justus Post (A.D./Audio Engineer), James Pickens (Producer/Technical Director), Michael Kouroubetes (Writer/Producer), Bryce Cone (Frudo), David Kiefer (Randolf) and Kay Eller (Martha the Steward).
We got to hobnob with a variety of fans of THE LORD OF THE RINGS and our Nosedrool’s large proboscis attracted the attention of three lovely young Canadian girls. Randolf also attempted to convince the door woman outside the $50 a plate Feast of Rohan to dump some hobbit stew in his wizard’s hat but to no avail.
There were several Guests of Honor who we got to chat with including Kirin Shah who was Elijah Wood’s scale double throughout the trilogy. It was pretty cool to be able to snap a photo of him chatting it up with our Frudo-words can’t describe it-.it was like some strange real-world/movie-world dimensional overlap where the parody Frodo meets the real life Frodo body double. My head hurts.
Peter Lyon was wonderful to meet and chit chat with. He designed and built many of the “hero swords” for the trilogy and continues to work for the WETA workshop in New Zealand. He got a real kick out of our movie and we gave him an autographed DOTR shirt and promo CD to take back to show Richard Taylor and the gang. So who knows-maybe Peterson Jackson himself will hear about our production. We look forward to the lawsuit
A special “thank you” goes to Rebekah Washington (who arranged our appearance at the event) and all her staff. We enjoyed infesting your terrific event with our lovable dorkness. Hope to see you again next year!
The folks from Project-Monaghan write: We proud and excited to annouce an awesome auction of a complete signed ROTK transcript signed by Dominic Monaghan, Sean Astin, and Bruce Hopkins. All of the proceeds will be to the charity that Project-Monaghan and Dominic supports, treepeople.com, based in Los Angeles. TreePeople’s mission is to inspire the people of Los Angeles to take personal responsibility for the urban forest – educating, training and supporting them as they plant and care for trees and improve the neighborhoods in which they live, learn, work and play. Many thanks to Wednesday Addams for donating the transcript , Elisa for taking the photos, and Dominic, Sean and Bruce for their great autographs! [More]
Tickets to the new lavish stage musical, The Lord of the Rings, went on sale May 15 (see our banners above -Xo) – nine months before its premiere – and rang up $1 million within 24 hours, according to The Star in Toronto. The figure is in Canadian dollars, but is still impressive, especially when added to the reported $3 million in group sales so far. A spokesperson for the show confirmed to Playbill.com that these initial figures are accurate. Interest from U.S. theatregoers was reported by the Star as intense. [More]
Viggo Mortensen (AKA ‘The Stash’) is currently at the Cannes film festival promoting his latest film ‘A History of Violence’. The Cannes website has released a sharp little trailer for the film, take a look! [More]
There is also this article from Stephen Schaefer of the Boston Herald: He’s not reprising Aragorn, the heroic warrior from “Lord of the Rings,” but Viggo Mortensen’s lethal combat in “History of Violence,” which debuted yesterday at the Cannes Film Festival, drew cheers and gasps. [More]
Guiding The Lord of the Rings fans to their favourite spots in New Zealand where the three movies were made is producing a satisfying feeling for Wanaka author Ian Brodie. His Lord of the Rings Location Guidebook is on track to become one of the country’s bestselling books. The latest edition took the published total to 275,000 copies, with many sold to overseas tourists who want to visit at least some of the 100 locations where Peter Jackson made the three block-busting movies. [More]
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