Xoanon passed this little bit of merchandising info, take a looksee.
Even though this doesnt have to do with the movies directly i thought id mention it.If any of the readers would like to purchase LOTR toys they can go to www.mintinbox.com. I ordered my toys off of here and the prices are great. With shipping i save $10 off of what i would have paid at a comic shop. I got Gandalf the White and The Balrog. Great figures and good prices. The toys are made by toy vault and you can go to their site toyvault.com to look at all of the available toys. Also they have info on the creation of the different figures but you cant order them off of their site.
Dan
I’d love to see some of those! If anyone has any pic send them to me!
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I just wanted to thank everyone for the overwhelming response to the fan writing area! You are probably asking yourself, “Why haven’t there been any new fan writings posted!!!” Well, I have the answer. We have recieved so many submissions that it will take us a while to sort through them all. So look for the fan writing section to be updated next week sometime. I know the folks in the Green Books section are going to kill me for this, but if you would like to submit your fan writing, please email greenbook@theonering.net.
A couple small updates have been made to the locations page. (misty mountains, rohan, mt. doom, and isengard).
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Check our Fan Art section for amazing works by Mia.
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With kind permission from French Premiere magazine, here is the article in it’s entirety. Translated by yours truly. (Note: conflicts with what we here have reported to you at TheOneRing.net are plain to see, I have quoted this article word for word as asked by me from Alexandre Brillant of French Primere)
‘The Lord of the Rings Releases it’s first Images’
New Line opens some of Peter Jacksons artistic choices on Lordoftherings.net.
By: Alexandre Brillant.
New Line has recently opened it’s official site for ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’, first episode of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, a film Peter Jackson will begin filming in September. Not a single name, apart from rumors about Sean Connery as the role of Gandalf, has been mentioned. The adaptation of JJR Tolkiens books will take 18 months to film in New Zealand, as well as another 18 for pre and post production. Jackson has chosen New Zeland, his homeland, to become Middle-earth because all the geographical features of Middle-earth are available there. Volcanic plateaus, snow capped mountains…
The script, written by Jackson, Fran Walsh (his wife) Philipa Boyens and Stephen Sinclair. Will include a cast of thousands of extras, 20 000 to be exact, as well as 300 crew members, whom have been scouted from the four corners of the Earth. All for 130-150 million dollars.
For the past 2 years, Wingnut Films Ltd. (Jackson’s own production Company) and WETA Ltd. (special effects company) Are working together to make people and miniatures, prosthetic creatures and armor. WETA has been asked to push computer technology to new heights. For instance 1200 special effects are in the works. WETA is very occupied with creating Middle-earth, the famous little people with big feet, the Hobbits, as well as their land. Artists such as Alan Lee and John Howe are working with WETA to make this vision a reality.
When New Line announced in August of 1998 that they will make ‘The Lord of the Rings’, ‘The Two Towers’ and ‘Return of the King’. Fans of the books were excited beyond belief and wanted to contact Jackson to offer their ideas and support. They also created many web sites devoted to the subject. The production then decided to open the official site ratherdiscreetly,(www.lordoftherings.net) At a time when cyberspace is obsessed with The Phantom Menace, it is very obvious that they will soon be pointing their computers in another direction.
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Balin, chatroom regular, has written his accounts of the happenings that went down last week end. Check it out here
And are you planning on attending a Tolkien related event? Or do you know where one is going on? Send us the info Here!
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Xoanon here,
It seems another magazine has taken up with our interests in cyberspace. The folks over at the ultra cool SFX have an interview with Billy Boyd, better known (or will be) as Pippin.
The little teaser on the web site: Billy Boyd, who is to play Pippin in the forthcomingLord of the Rings trilogy, was kind enough to speak to SFX yesterday.To find out what he’d like to do with a Pippin toy,you’re just going to have to wait until SFX 56. Don’t worry, the time will fly by.
UPDATE!
Watch this space for an exclusive extract from an interview with Pippin himself, Billy Boyd, when he spoke to SFX magazine, Before the mag comes out! Watch out for that!
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