Check out tehanu’s new note! As expected, its another thought provoking article to dig your teeth into.
We also have some amazing new fan art. Thanks again to all the people that have submitted their art. Remember, I will accept movies and sounds as long as they are your original work. (So all you 3d animators out there, get to work! heh)
As the fan art section gets larger and larger I guess we are going to have to make some changes to make things load faster for you folks. Look for some changes in the near future.
A very sick Xoanon here, (cough)
I recieved this on good authority from sources at Houghton Mifflin, the dudes who made the TV ad.
The ad has nothing directly to do with promoting the film in any way, nor did it use funds provided by anyone connected with the films. It was produced by
Houghton Mifflin Company (US publishers of the works of Tolkien for over 60 years) in association with Ballantine Books (US publishers of the mass market
editions) to promote Tolkien generally, and to promote the new, first time available in the US one-volume trade paperback we at Houghton have just released. The ad (for the moment) runs this week only on FX and the Sci-Fi network during The X-Files and Star Trek reruns.
My spy over at Houghton Mifflin tells me that he’ll have more for me in days to come!
Got some different news from various sorces today:
Lord of the Rings On TVTo promote the new paperback version of Lord of the Rings, there is a commercial being aired!
I was watching the X-Files on FX last night and one
of the commercials was for the new paperback one
volume Lord of the Rings. It’s pretty unusual to have
a TV spot for a book thats been published for a long
time so I thought that it might be part of a campaign for the upcoming movies!
He Taught Darth Maul Everything He Knows
This come from Corona “…And we’ve got another scoop from the field for you today: “I was at an event called the Sword Spectacular Weekend, and one of the guests was supposed to be Bob Anderson..the swordmaster who has done swordwork for Star Wars, The Three Muskateers, The Princess Bride, and most recentlyThe Mask of Zorro. Anyway, he wasn’t able to attend,
because he was hired to ‘Work on a movie in New
Zealand’. Well, I did some asking around (I know the
event staff) and they confirmed through a head nod
(since they couldn’t tell me directly) when I asked if
he was working on The Lord of the Rings…”
I’m asking my spies if this Anderson rumor is true, but if any of you folks out there, who want to confirm this. email me
Hey folks, check out the growing fan art section! 4 just added right now.
Just FYI, we have a rather cool exclusive coming and look for an update to tehanu’s notes very soon!
Our newest super spy Yaada Yaada has filed me in on some news concerning production. The big YY works on the ‘inside’ of one of the production companies. I trust his/her word, and you should too, look at what she/he has to say!
YY filed me in, he/she told me that the fight co-ordinator was shown a few of the swords used by many of the main characters! she/he said that all the hero swords look really good and very realalistic. Not too
frilly and are real heavy, they are real except for not being sharp.
When I asked about Sting, YY told me he/she didn’t see it, she/he assumes that Alan (Reed) hasn’t finished working on it yet. YY also comented that Gandalfs sword is cool..very majestic without being frilly..you know you could actually see it as a useable sword not a prop or dress occation sword.
He/she also filled me in that there is little word on casting so far.
She/he told me that he/she has had a look at some of the ‘miniatures’ to be used.(Xoanon note: I’m not too sure if YY means miniatures as in models they will film to pretend it’s a certain place, or simply models they plan to make life size)YY says that Lorien is more lovely than she/he would have ever imagined, the minature is very large. The trees are some of the biggest props ever to be molded, there are some of the oldest trees in the world in NZ, thousands of years old but the public is not allowed near them because the root system gets messed up. Lorien is so dreamy, Barad-dur is another huge “minature” there will be cg stuff in all areas but they always build the real thing. The word minature dosn’t fit anymore, some of them are so big they have too work out complex ways to
break them down and structures that will hold up such things.
If everything sounds as good as Yaada Yaada tells me, we are in for a treat!
Okay okay…so I made a boo boo. BUT…check out our new pages:
links – Please submit any links you think I’ve missed.
crew – If you happen to know any other members of the crew, pass it my way.
cast – Not done yet, but we hope to have a list soon.
spy reports – Small update to this section. In the future this will be where all rumors will be posted.
The Facts – A little section written by Tehanu. Its great for getting a general background on the movies.
So look for more stuff this week. Sorry about that mistake. I don’t want to make excuses, but I could swear ever since I got this One Ring strange things have been happening to me. I’m losing my hair, I’m hunched over a bit and people are having a real hard time seeing me…:P My precious….give me my precious…
