Archive for October, 2009Happy Birthday Viggo Mortensen!Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 Posted in Viggo Mortensen Viggo Peter Mortensen, Jr. (born October 20, 1958) is a Danish-American actor, poet, musician, photographer, and painter. His film roles include Aragorn in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings ... Read more..New Book: The Epic Realm of Tolkien Part One – Beren and LuthienMonday, October 19th, 2009 Posted in Books Publications, Merchandise Malcolm from ADC Publications writes: Thank you for adding our earlier book to your website, so that your viewers are aware of its existence. This is our second and ... Read more..Happy (Late) Birthday Howard Shore!Monday, October 19th, 2009 Posted in Howard Shore Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer, orchestrator, conductor and music producer. He was the first band leader on Saturday Night Live. He composed the scores ... Read more..Tolkien Manuscript Exhibit Continues at Fordham UniversitySaturday, October 17th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized Our friend Matt Blessing from Marquette University sends a reminder that the exhibit, “The Beginnings of a Masterpiece: Original Manuscripts from The Fellowship of the Ring ” is still running at ... Read more..TheOneRing.net Podcast: Bilbo Baggins Birthday PartyFriday, October 16th, 2009 Posted in Events, Fans, Lord of the Rings, Meet Ups, Other Events, The Hobbit, TheOneRing.net Community, Tolkien Join Cliff "Quickbeam" Broadway as he and other Tolkien fans celebrate Bilbo's 111th birthday party with a picnic out at Los Angeles' Griffith Park. Read more..Did Lewis & Tolkien Plan to Write Together?Friday, October 16th, 2009 Posted in J.R.R. Tolkien, Languages, Other Tolkien books, Tolkien From HarperOne's blog on C.S. Lewis: "Did C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien collaborate on a project that was never published? It is well known that the two were close friends ... Read more..Trailer for Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood Expansion!Thursday, October 15th, 2009 Posted in Gaming Turbine has just released the first video trailer for The Lord of the Rings Online: Siege of Mirkwood, the upcoming digital expansion to the award-winning MMO, which is scheduled to ... Read more..Viggo Mortensen in Men’s JournalThursday, October 15th, 2009 Posted in Viggo Mortensen Pearl Sandybanks writes: While killing time in NY waiting for my flight back home after the concerts this past weekend, I wandered into a magazine store seeking to look ... Read more..Latest WETA NewsletterThursday, October 15th, 2009 Posted in Collectibles, Merchandise, WETA Cave, WETA Workshop From the folks at Weta: 10 years since filming began on The Lord Of The Rings! How do we celebrate that? Listen to the Anniversary Podcast! - Daniel Falconer has ... Read more..Viggo Mortensen on The RoadThursday, October 15th, 2009 Posted in Viggo Mortensen The adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's book No Country for Old Men won the Oscar for best picture. So the film version of his latest novel, The Road, is much anticipated. ... Read more..Ian McKellen Will Bring His Life Story to DC for Shakespeare Theatre Co. BenefitThursday, October 15th, 2009 Posted in Ian McKellen The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC, will present a one-night-only benefit performance of Sir Ian McKellen's one-man show A Knight in Harman Hall on Oct. 29, four days after ... Read more..Lovely Bones set for Royal galaThursday, October 15th, 2009 Posted in Events, Film Screenings, Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson's new movie The Lovely Bones has been chosen for this year's Royal Film Performance. Jackson said he is "honoured" it has been selected, ... Read more.. |
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