Ringer Spy Xtem gives us the latest dish on the Lyall Bay set in Wellington, anyone for a swim? [More]
Month: May 2000
Super Ringer Spy Xtem sheds some light on the Lyall Bay Set in Wellington:
Lyall Bay
Xtem reporting in. After spending what seems like an eternity from what I can only describe as an Eye following me, I believe that I have finally stayed in the shadows long enough to evade angry New Line notice of trespass!
Something which I am quite surprised hasn’t been reported yet was the filming down at Lyal Bay on Wednesday last week. Large marquee tents were set up on a grassy knoll, on a slight rise from the Southernly facing beach, while in front was a mountainous slope about 80 degrees up. Filming went into the night, with floodlights lighting up the entire hillside. The next day the site was already beginning to be vacated.
The photo below shows what the background would’ve been like. Unfortunately I couldn’t find any photos which actually showed the site.
Ringer fan Marc Hawkins chimes in with this tidbit of info from a recent posting at Apple.com:
“In addition, Nielsen//NetRatings has named Apple’s website, www.apple.com, the most popular destination for movie trailers on the web.* Contributing to the success of Apple.com’s Quicktime-based movie trailer section, downloads for New Line Cinema’s “The Lord of the Rings” preview, encoded exclusively in QuickTime, topped 12 million since its April 7 debut, making it one of the largest online entertainment events ever.”
Hello again all! I am here again, with yet another fun-packed quiz for all the Tolkien lovers! Our Last winner was Melian!… Good Job Melian! The answers were:
1) The Death Down
2) Smeagol
3) Ioreth
Here are the questions for today:
1) “What was Finrod’s name in Quenya?”
2) “uagailrnm” (Scrambled Tolkien person, place or thing)
3) “They won’t come, not before your dead anyway.” (Who said this?)
As usual, Mail me with your answers, the 1st person to send me all 3 correct answers in one mailing will be posted here next time! Good Luck!……Gamgee
Want to know more about the latest folks to join the LOTR cast? [More]
Word comes to us via our sources in New Zealand that a few more names are entering the LOTR arena. Local NZ actors John Leigh and Nathaniel Lees have been cast as Hama and Ugluk respectively.
John Leigh and Nathaniel Lees
John Leigh has been in PJ’s ‘The Frighteners’ and was on ‘Shortland Street’.
Nathaniel Lees had a role in ‘Young Hercules’ and ‘The Legend of William Tell.