Kristin Thompson, author of The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood, writes: I’ve got a long new entry on my ‘Frodo Franchise’ blog trying to summarize all the recent articles and interviews about the New Line lawsuit and the prospects of PJ directing (or at least producing) The Hobbit. They don’t contain a lot of actual news, but I try to sift out what little there is.
Category: Old Main News
Vanessa “Saffron” Price, Online Community Representative for The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar, writes: Also called “Efts” by the most learned of Scholars, Salamanders are fearsome creatures with a fiery breath and a lust for treasure. Salamanders are found in out-of-the-way places like the region of Evendim, and “out of the way” is just what the unprepared adventurer should get when faced with one of these descendants from dragon-kind!
Many readers have sent along the link to the Movies.com Fanpoll results. LOTR won 3 categories:
Favorite Movie – LOTR: Return of the King
Favorite Soundtrack – The Lord of the Rings
Best Battle Scene – Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King: Final battle
Take a look at the complete winners list here!
Ciboule writes: French site Elbakin.net has announced today that the two concerts of Lord of the Rings Symphony have been cancelled.
David writes: Didn’t see it posted on the site yet, but I noticed that amazon.com has the Return of the King: Complete recordings now available for pre-order. The CD comes out November 6th and is listed on Amazon.com for $59.99.
ROTK: Complete Recordings Available for Pre-Order NOW! Discuss
lyonkeeper sends along this article from the October 1st, 2007 edition of People Magazine. It features an interview with Viggo Mortensen about his role in ‘Eastern Promises’.