The latest Ethan Hawke film ‘Snow Falling on Cedars’ is out today, I’ve seen a few clips on…
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The latest Ethan Hawke film ‘Snow Falling on Cedars’ is out today, I’ve seen a few clips on TV and it seems to be a rather interesting film.
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From Strider
For UK ringers Ethan Hawke can be seen tonight @ 12:35 on ITV/UTV starring in White Fang. Just to let those who want to see our boy Faramir in action. Merry Xmas
Thanks Strider!
Hail Tolkien fans! Balin and I have put tinder and flint together to come up with this weekend’s Hall of Fire topic. It’s sure to send up a few sparks! Come in from the cold and enjoy the fireside glow of The Hall as we kick around our thoughts and citations. Special thanks to Barliman chatters Pippin Took, Gil-Estel, Eldarion, and Pippin Skywalker for their feedback.
Topic: The Power of the One Ring
What was the nature of the power of the One Ring? With as much ‘factual’ information you can dig up in The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and other texts, what can we deduce about the Ruling Ring? To what extent was the Ring influenced by its wearer, or vice versa? How is it that some individuals were able to overcome the Ring, but others succumbed easily? Did the Ring posses powers of its own? These and other questions will be asked….do you have an answer?
Time: Postponed to Saturday, 1/8/00
Place: #thehalloffire; come to Barliman’s and type /join #thehalloffire in your message window
References: strongly encouraged
Dress: casual
Mathoms: optional
If you have suggestions for a future Hall of Fire topic, please email them to Gamgee, Gandalf, or me. Also, your feedback on Hall of Fire events is important to us, so please let us know what you think! Email your comments to Tookish@theonering.net. Namarie!
The good folks at Cinescape have gotten themselves a review of ‘The Ninth Gate’ from Vienna, Europe.
What’s the connection? Well the answer is composer Wojciech Kilar. Kilar has stated himself that he is close to signing with PJ and the crew to do LOTR.
You can hear some of his great work in ‘Dracula’, ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ and now in ‘The Ninth Gate’.
Find out more about Kilar here.
Think there is more to see in that Liv Tyler/Arwen article? There is! Check out The Spy Reports for the entire article.
Hobbits come to life
Liv Tyler’s surrounded by creatures great and small in The Lord of the Rings but some of them are real dummies.
After 50 years of waiting, the world has finally had its first real-life glimpse of perhaps the century’s most famous literary creation, a furry-footed hobbit. Deep in the woods and hills of the South Island, J.R. Tolkien’s diminutive fantasy creatures are the stars of the $360 million movie trilogy The Lord of the Rings.
As Woman’s Day’s exclusive pictures show, director Peter Jackson’s hobbits come in all shapes and sizes – and some are not even flesh and blood.
You won’t notice on the big screen, but Hollywood siren Liv Tyler, as Elf Princess Arwen, had only a plastic hobbit for company when she filmed a dramatic horse chase sequence last week near Wanaka.
The dummy was standing in for the pint sized actor playing Liv’s hobbit sidekick Bilbo Baggins as they escaped from a fearsome band of Ringwraiths, among the books’ eeriest bad guys.
Meanwhile, on another set in nearby Queenstown, the movie’s hobbit heroes Frodo and Sam Gamagee appeared, played by Elijah Wood and Sean Astin – who are both normal-sized. Peter and his team of special effects wizards have created an awesome computer system, called Massive, which will shrink the stars down to size on film – except for the giant hairy feet which are a hobbit’s trademark.
The torrential downpours that flooded Queenstown and Wanaka have wreaked havoc to the Lord of the Rings’ shooting schedule, trapping one unit in remote Te Anau and even washed some elaborate sets built on riverbanks around Lake Wakatipu.
The weather also took its toll on 22-year-old Liv. She may have become one of the movie world’s hottest properties after starring roles in Armageddon and Stealing Beauty, but she still needs a hot-water bottle under each arm as she waited for the cameras to roll. Luckily for her, it was Liv’s last day on set before taking a break back home in the US after several weeks filming.
Like the other Rings stars, she has been able to watch the floodwaters rising from her suite at Queenstown’s Novotel Saint Moritz Hotel.
And when on well-wisher asked her as she boarded a plane what her memories of Queenstown were, she said simply. “Lots of rain!”
Thanks to Julius for the tip!
Ok, so I wasn’t expecting LOTR blurbs in a ST mag, but here it is, straight from Barliman regular PowerLeca,
In Issue 126 of the Star Trek Communicator, there was a very short blip about the upcoming LOTR movie. It was at the VERY end of the Sensor Readings section. Here is the full whaddayacallit:
“…onetime Star Trek: Voyager guest stars Brad Dourif (Suder) and John Rhys-Davies (Leonardo de Vinci) are both set to star in New Line Cinema’s live-action version of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy novel, Lord of the Rings. Principal photography began in October on location in New Zealand.”
Thanks for the tip!
