Hello Tolkienites!!! Gamgee here, with yet another edition of the Tolkien fun section! Our winner yesterday was Juho Savolainen, Way to go Juho!!!!!
The answers were: 1) Galenas 2) dwimmerlaik 3) Ghan-Buri-Ghan
Here are the questions for today:
1) “Who were the Feanturi?”
2) “rcnuunacir” (scrambled Tolkien person, place or thing)
3) “I had not heard that they spouted smoke from their mouths.” (Who said this?)
As always, email me with your answers, the 1st person to send me all 3 correct answers in one mailing will be posted here tomorrow! Good luck!!!!
Month: April 2000
One of my favorite sites on the net IMDB has come up with a blip on my LOTR radar.
In their ‘Celebrity News’ we get this:
A $200 million screen version of J.R.R. TOLKIEN’s THE LORD OF THE RINGS is getting enhanced with romance. Director PETER JACKSON, shooting the first of three films devoted to the saga, has drafted LIV TYLER and CATE BLANCHETT to play ARWEN and GALADRIEL, whose roles have been extended in the screenplay. The love story between Arwen and ARAGORN, played by VIGGO MORTENSEN, has also been given greater prominence. But Hobbit fans are up in arms, fearing the essence of the work will be lost.
Enthusiast ALEX HORTON, 17, from Croydon fumes, “I don’t see the point of messing with the elements of a story that has worked so long for lots of people. DR VINCENT GILLESPIE, professor of English at ST ANNE’S COLLEGE, OXFORD says, “Traditionally in Middle English tales men lead the action. It is fairly male-dominated stuff and women have either a domestic or a faerie representing `the other side’… The film could build reasonably, though, on the growing idea that women were powerful ‘fixers’ or ‘peaceweavers’ behind the scenes in these tales.”
Thanks to the leafy Quickbeam for the tip!
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You can catch Liv Tyler (Arwen) in ‘Armageddon’ on TMN today. [More]
Hullo!!
We’ve got an exciting Hall of Fire topic ready for you to sink your teeth and fingers into next weekend. Check it out:
Racism in Middle-earth
The question is simple but the issue is complex. Is racism a theme in the works of Middle-earth? Tolkien often uses language describing ‘black’ versus ‘white’, or ‘dark’ versus ‘light’. Does this imply racism?
Furthermore, do you think this will play a factor in the films? To what extent will Peter Jackson change the story to address this issue?
Bring your quotes and opinions to the Hall of Fire on Saturday, April 8, at 5:30 EST [GMT -5 hours], for what should be a lively debate!
*Tookish bows
If you have been away all weekend, and haven’t heard the news, New Line Cinema will provide an Exclusive Lord of the Rings Internet Preview to be released on Friday, April 7th!!! A preview of what you might ask? Well, my money goes on some footage similar to what was shown at the ShoWest convention last month.
Each day we are posting a new Exclusive Internet Preview countdown image. If you have missed the first 3 images, check our movie scrapbook section. Also keep your eyes above our poll! Each day the image will change until the finale on April 7th!