Vanessa “Saffron” Price, Online Community Representative for Turbine, Inc. writes: We’re pleased to announce the LOTRO Loading Screen Contest! LOTRO fans, it’s time to show your favorite pictures: Just submit an in-game screenshot and it may be featured as the next new loading screen in LOTRO! See rules below. Good luck and we look forward to seeing your screenshots! The LOTRO Loading Screen Contest
Day: January 31, 2008
Composer Howard Shore brought J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary imagination to vivid life with his Academy®- and Grammy® Award-winning score to Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Shore crafted a fully-developed musical epic that related the classic tale with moving and intricately related themes for each of Middle-earth’s cultures and charted the One Ring’s journey with an exhilarating flourish. [muenchenevent.de] Continue reading “Watch FOTR with Live Music in Germany”
‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ is one of the most anticipated movies of the year, and LOTR alum Cate Blanchett seems to have a rather significant role. Check out this photo of Cate as Agent Spalko. She doesn’t look too happy with Dr. Jones! [View the Pic]
I hope I wasn’t the only person jumping with joy at the news that Guillermo del Toro is 99% confirmed to direct ‘The Hobbit‘.
I’m hoping this will be the start of the a similar ‘dream run’ to what we saw with LOTR, when so many decisions, one after another, just felt so right. After seeing his work on Pan’s Labyrinth last year, I’m incredibly excited to think of him directing one or both Hobbit movies.
Pan’s Labyrinth is one of those movies that realises the unique potential of film. Any director that could make something so powerful and exhileratingly magical as Pans’ Labyrinth would do amazing things with The Hobbit. I walked out of that film haunted and moved by images that stayed with me for days. No one thing by itself made the movie great: it was a combination where the sum of the whole was greater than the parts. The result was something that I don’t think I could experience in any other way. No music, no book, no theatre, nothing could quite have given me the same experience. I had to go back and see it again to try and absorb all it was trying to say. Continue reading “Tehanu’s Notes: My Vote’s with Guillermo Del Toro”