From: Eldarion
Just thought you might be interested to know that Orlando Bloom (Legolas) appeared on British TV last night (29/01/2000). It was a detective drama called “Midsomer Murders”. Orlando played a womanising thief called Peter Drinkwater, who finally met his comeuppance at the hands of one of the people he had upset. The mystery was, who had killed him. There were a couple of coincidental tie in’s with LOTR in that the house where one of the suspects lived was called Lothlorien and on seeing the house name, the detective and his sidekick enter into a short discussion about where the name Lothlorien came from, mentioning LOTR, Tolkien and the Hobbit(though the side kick merely dismissed them all as being about dwarves and “fairies”.
Quite a handful of LOTR castmembers can be seen on TMN today.
Elijah Wood (Frodo) in ‘The Faculty’ on TMN [More]
Ethan Hawke (Faramir) Uma Thurman (Eowyn, still rumored) in ‘Gattaca’ [More]
Ian McKellen (Gandalf) in ‘Gods and Monsters’ [More]
Date: Saturday, February 5
Time: 5:30 Eastern Standard Time
Place: #thehalloffire on theonering.net server
Hullo Tolkien friends,
A new Hall of Fire topic is selected and ready for next weekend! This time we’ll explore the possibilities of a frightening scenario: What would have happened if Frodo had succumbed to his wound inflicted by the Lord of the Nazgul? What would have been the fate of the One Ring? Who might have been chosen as the Ringbearer? Could Frodo have gone over to the side of darkness? Let us know what you think this weekend!
Thanks to those of you who’ve made Hall of Fire a great success. We’ve had some large groups at these live discussions, and your participation has been fantastic! Please send any feedback and topic suggestions to one of us and we’ll do our best to keep the conversation flowing. Gandalf, Gamgee, Balin, and I are at your service.
If you missed one or haven’t been to a Hall of Fire chat yet, check out the logs of prior discussions here.
Hope to see you this weekend!
Tookish
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