April 6th, 2008 by Calisuri
| Source: SKY Magazine
In the March 2008 edition of Delta Airlines ‘SKY’ Magazine, the ‘Star Books’ area featured an excerpt from ‘The Two Towers.’ The entire edition of the magazine featured a ‘green’ theme and The Two Towers we chosen because of Professor Tolkien’s love for the environment. Ringer Michelf send along some great scans, but you can also visit the official Sky Magazine website to see the article for yourself. [Scans] [Delta Sky Magazine]
Artist and Ringer fan Grant Gould will have a card featured in the upcoming TOPPS ‘Lord of the Rings: Masterpieces II’ trading cards, arriving in stores early February. Grant’s artwork will be included in the base set and is titled it ‘Return of the Kings.’ (Click on the Thumbnail to be taken to his blog for a full view) Grant says, “I wanted to capture an unseen moment from the movies, and decided to draw Aragorn standing beside the King of the Dead, sailing toward Minas Tirith. It was a lot of fun to create, and a huge honor to officially be part of the LOTR art world, even if in a small way.” Look for this new set from TOPPS in local comic, collectible or gaming shops. [Grant Gould's Blog] [TOPPS LOTR Cards]
I happened to be flipping through channels over the holiday and ran across a marathon of The Science Channel’s ‘How It’s Made.’ You are probably saying, yea, so what?! Well, this particular episode was on how pinball machines are made and the pinball machine they were making was a The Lord of the Rings one! After further investigation, it looks like you can watch this episode online at the Science Channel website. If you don’t feel like watching it online, it looks like this episode is airing again on Jan 19th. [How It's Made]
Kevin Graham writes: I am one of the artist doing the LOTR Masterpieces Sketch Cards. I am on the set again for Topps LOTR 2, I’ve attached a few of my cards if you care to post them. Click here to see more [kevingrahamart.com]
The talented Colleen Doran wrote to let us know that she posted to her blog about her newest sketch cards. In this series, Colleen did sketches of Sandro Kopp, Sean Bean, Karl Urban, and Elijah Wood. And I must say, I am a bit jealous of Sandro.
Scottish Raygun fan Daniel Leyden literally danced with excitement when he received the email from Weta Customer Services telling him he had won Weta’s ‘Complete Your Raygun Set’ competition. “I was at work when I found out”, he says excitedly. “I just jumped up and down shouting ‘I’ve won! I’ve won!’”
Daniel is a games programmer for a mobile phone company, and it was here that he got his initial Raygun delivered, the F.M.O.M Industries Wave Disrupter Raygun, much to the fascination of his colleagues, who share his open planned office. “A few of my colleagues like, ‘you’re buying WHAT!@? They were certainly questioning why I was buying a Raygun! But for me, it was more of a ‘I just want this cool thing.” Read the rest of this entry »
From The White Tree Fund journal team: The White Tree Fund is very happy to announce that Silver Leaves, TWTF’s journal, will be released on November 24, 2007. There is a lot of great content in this inaugural issue including art by Jef Murray and Coralie Allan, and articles by some amazing folks including Tom Shippey, Michael Drout, Dimitra Fimi and Janet Brennan Croft. The cost of the journal is $15.00 CDN (plus shipping and handling for printed copies), and we’ll get your copy out to you ASAP. For further information, please visit our website at whitetreefund.org.
We’re already thinking ahead to the next issue, so if you have ideas, comments or suggestions, or you’d like to make a submission, please let us know by sending an email to silverleaves@whitetreefund.org.
Just in time for Black Friday in the US, Sideshow Collectibles has starting taking orders for the ‘Twilight Witch-king’ Legendary Scale Bust. “The Witch-king has been expertly sculpted to capture every detail of the ghostly minion of Sauron. Hand-cast of the highest quality polystone, each bust is hand-painted and individually numbered. The Witch-king Legendary Scale bust is the perfect addition to your The Lord of the Rings collection.” Jump on over to Sideshow Collectibles and place your pre-order today! And while you are there, check out some of the great deals available for early holiday shoppers. [Witch-King LSB] [LOTR Sale]
Jerry Vanderstelt was in the right place at the right time. But it wasn’t luck that landed him there, it was hard work and making his own opportunities. Today this good fortune and hard work culminate when the artist releases a lithograph celebrating “The Fellowship of the Ring,” film released in 2001.
At the San Diego Comic-Con 2001, Elijah Wood walked around the mammoth floor of convention floor drinking in the celebration of popular culture and keeping his eye out for hints of how the world might accept the movie he had worked on that was about to overwhelm popular culture, the first film in Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings.”
From the folks at WETA: Our big news is that Richard Taylor, that head of Weta Workshop was inducted into the Massey University Hall of Fame in the weekend. Richard attended the Wellington based University before starting up Weta. Here are this week’s other highlights for your news:
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Kevin Graham writes: I am one of the artist doing the LOTR Masterpieces Sketch Cards. I am on the set again for Topps LOTR 2, I’ve attached a few of my cards if you care to post them. 
