From: Hugo One of my Dutch contacts in NZ send this to me: “Lord of the rings are…
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One of my Dutch contacts in NZ send this to me:
“Lord of the rings are calling for extras (soldiers), some time around 13 – 15 April in the middle of the North Island (Ruapehu), it’s our skiing mountain in a desert style setting in a cold harsh place.”
(Ruapehu is the highest mountain in the Tongariro National Park and has been picked as the main Mordor location – Tehanu)
He also heard there was a similar demand in Te Anau.
More Tolkien items then you can shake a stick at! [More]
Article Reads: In The Middle – Hollywood actor and Lord of the Rings star Liv Tyler dressed up warmly yesterday to watch a spot of test cricket at the Basin Reserve. Sitting with her was boyfriend Roy Langdon, right, the English-born singer of US band Space Hog, and British actor Bernard Hill, who plays Theoden, King of Rohan in the Trilogy
Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) is showcasing some of his photos and media at the Robert Mann Gallery in New York City:
Mortensen’s photography and large-scale mixed media works carry the intensity of his career. Actor, writer, photographer and painter, Mortensen’s journeys have taken an irregular path. Filling notebooks with poetry and drawings, rummaging for salvage to layer into his works, he has an inexhaustible supply of material. Mortensen’s mixed media has the true nature of outsider art but also take the purposive form of work by an artist who reinterprets the hours of his existence. [More]
US fans of Liv Tyler (Arwen) can catch her in ‘Cookies Fortune’ on Cinemax [More]
You can also see Ian McKellen (Gandalf) in ‘Gods and Monsters’ on TMN [More]
I haven’t had a set of 3 correct answers yet! I’ll let it ride one more day. Your friend in Tolkien…Gamgee
