Archive for April, 2009

Hobbit Movie Formats Confirmed: 1 Hobbit – 2 Films

Friday, April 17th, 2009 Posted in Guillermo Del Toro, Headlines, Hobbit Movie, Peter Jackson, Rumors Spy News, The Hobbit

From www.empireonline.com: And the world exclusives from our 20th birthday issue – guest-edited by Steven Spielberg – continue to pile up… We’ve known for a while that Peter Jackson and ... Read more..

What’s in a name?

Thursday, April 16th, 2009 Posted in New Zealand, Tours

From The Southland Times: Aaron Nicholson should not be too disappointed that the New Zealand Geographic Board has rejected his suggestion to rename a stretch of the Waiau River to ... Read more..

LOTR Goodies at Auction

Thursday, April 16th, 2009 Posted in Alan Lee, Collectibles, Events, Merchandise, Movie Fellowship of the Ring, Peter Jackson, Richard Taylor

GaladrielTX writes: Profiles in History is running a huge auction of movie memorabilia at the end of this month. Lot # 706 is a limited edition The Lord of ... Read more..

Howard Shore LOTR Concert in London Report

Thursday, April 16th, 2009 Posted in Concerts, Events, Howard Shore

Jazmine writes: It is two days since I saw the London Philharmonic Orchestra perform the soundtrack live to the movie, and I’m still pretty awestruck by the whole experience. I ... Read more..

Trailer Two for ‘The Hunt For Gollum’ Released

Thursday, April 16th, 2009 Posted in Creations, Fans

Chris writes: I just wanted to let everyone at TORN know that our final trailer two for The Hunt For Gollum has been released, which you can check out on ... Read more..

Sideshow Reveals the ‘Shades of Mordor’ Diorama

Thursday, April 16th, 2009 Posted in Collectibles, Elijah Wood, Lord of the Rings, LotR Movies, Merchandise, Sideshow Collectibles

[caption id="attachment_31788" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Shades of Mordor Diorama"][/caption] Sideshow Collectibles has just fully revealed their latest in the LOTR Diorama series: 'The Shades of Mordor' Ringwraith Diorama. The very dynamic piece ... Read more..

LOTR Blu-ray Box Set Revealed on Amazon

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 Posted in DVDs, Headlines, LotR Movies, Merchandise, Movie Fellowship of the Ring, Movie Return of the King, Movie The Two Towers

Jordy sends along word that Amazon.com has the Blu-ray LOTR DVD collection available for pre-Order. The pre-order page also has a great image of the box art! Pre-Order 'The Lord of ... Read more..

Fight for Rings river name lost

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 Posted in New Zealand, Tours

The battle for Middle-earth has been lost after a bid to rename a small section of a scenic river that featured in a Lord of the Rings film was declined ... Read more..

Mythcon 40 This July in LA

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 Posted in Conventions, Events, Lectures & Education

The folks from The Mythopoeic Society sent this in: The Mythopoeic Society is holding its 40th annual conference, Mythcon, July 17-20 at UCLA, Los Angeles, California (www.mythsoc.org/mythcon40.html). The Mythopoeic Society ... Read more..

LOTR tourist gets the Red Carpet treatment

Monday, April 13th, 2009 Posted in Fans, Tours, Uncategorized

A recent CNN story about film tourism featured a woman who enjoyed two guided tours of LOTR film locations. Of course I was curious to know whether the woman, Michele ... Read more..

Casting ‘The Hobbit,’ via TORn’s message boards

Monday, April 13th, 2009 Posted in Casting Rumors, Characters, Fans, Hobbit Cast News, Hobbit Movie, Richard Armitage, The Hobbit

"The Hobbit," has to be cast but that just leaves more time for fans to speculate, guess and suggest regarding the casting of the two-films planned by producer Peter Jackson ... Read more..

Peter Jackson causes stir

Sunday, April 12th, 2009 Posted in Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson, The Hobbit

The King Kong of the New Zealand film industry Peter Jackson caused more of a scene than the mid-air dogfighting when he turned up to the Classic Fighters Omaka 2009 ... Read more..