Our 3rd chat session was a success! Smeagol88, Head of Platus Productions turned out to be a great…
Continue ReadingOur 3rd chat session was a success! Smeagol88, Head of Platus Productions turned out to be a great chatter and was very informative! As it turns out, we had a surprise visit by ‘Wynn’ head of graphic design at Platus.
After our last chat with Tom Mayo, we had an ‘open mic’ session, it turned out to be really fun! So we started off our latest chat with an open mic, It was very fun! We later moved to a more formal arrangement, to let smeagol88 breath a little!
check out the Chat here
Next weeks chat guest at Barliman’s is already lined up! Continuing on our gaming theme next weeks chat will feature none other than John Race, Head Designer for Sierra’s ‘Orcs: Revenge of the Ancients’.
Sierra’s game is considered the most ‘advanced’ of all games being made in co-ordination with the films. Check out our Gaming Havens review!
Missed yesterdays chat? Read it right here.
Want to know what LOTR is REALLY about? Just click over to ‘Suite101’. There is a great article by Michael Martinez.
Martinez goes really far back and tells all! A must read for all. A great essay on ‘The Rings of Power’ and the book to movie crossover.
What Can We Expect From the Upcoming Movies?
Well, this is a topic that will come up again and again as P-day (Premier Day — or maybe Peter Jackson Day) approaches. Let’s put aside all the media hype right now and concentrate on the real hype: fannish expectations. There are three sets of fans involved in the process of hyping the movies and they are not always easy to distinguish from each other. There is so much agonizing going on, as well as celebration, that sometimes it’s difficult to tell who is whomFirst there are the Tolkien fans. They seem to group themselves into the Fundamentalists and the Radicals. The Fundamentalists cry “No movies!” and the Radicals yell back “Jackson forever!” Well, okay, there’s a third camp between these two extremes: the Wait-an-seers. They were at one time the majority but I’m not so sure a majority exists any more…
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Thanks to Hobbs3 for the tip!
Xoanon here,
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Michael Deluca the emailiac as I like to call him, has apparently mentioned that Sean Bean will indeed play Boromir. The news is on Cirdans LOTR page, hopefully more news to follow as I check up on this.
UPDATED!(10:40am ET)
TheOnering.net™ has just learned, through Sean Bean’s agent that he HAS been cast as Boromir, this is official confirmation! TheOneRing.net™ just placed the call a few moments ago to the UK. 🙂
Xoanon here,
9/9/99 (Doomsday for some reason) at 9:30 pm et, we will be having our 3rd live chat over at Barliman’s. These are great fun and always packed! This weeks guest is ‘Smeagol88’, Head of Platus Productions. Come on over and chat!
The photo’s we posted a couple days ago of Orlando Bloom were in fact correct! AICN confirms this with a great image of the actor who will play Legolas. Check out more images on our Orlando Bloom cast page.
