These pics originally popped online at my good buddy Garth’s ‘Dark Horizons’ website. Thanks to Ringer Spy Sadogoat we’ve managed to get our hands on some larger versions!
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Month: June 2000
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The Gamespot website had a newsbrief about the LOTR video game that’s being developed in conjunction with New Line. (more)
Hello again all! Gamgee here, with yet another astounding edition of the Tolkien Fun Section! Our last winner was again Morden! Good job old pal!!! The answers were:
1. Irmo
2. Lobelia
3. Sam Gamgee
Here are the questions for today:
1) “Name the horse ridden by Eowyn and Merry to the Battle of the Pelennor fields.”
2) “olegad” (Scrambled Tolkien person, place or thing)
3) “They will make it yet. They will escape.” (Who said this?)
As usual, Mail me with your answers, the 1st person to mail me all 3 correct answers in 1 mailing will be posted here next time! Good Luck!……Gamgee
This is more of a literary note, but I thought I’d alert you fantasy fans to a BBC series currently screening in the States which ought to fulfil our appetite for good onscreen fantasy while we wait for LOTR to start… Mervyn Peake’s ‘Gormenghast’ books are rich, ornate, enthralling fantasy – hard to read, but wow, this BBC production sounds like it’ll bring Peake’s masterpiece wonderfully alive. I can’t wait til it gets to NZ! I might even be forced to buy a TV!Check it out here
(Oh yeah. It’s got Christopher Lee (Our Saruman) in it, no doubt doing something deliciously EVIL….Nope, I’ve been informed I’m wrong. Lee gets to play a good guy. How often does that happen?)
Lately there’s news of filming over in the Wairarapa, that flat green plain that’s seperated from Wellington by the currently snow-covered Rimutakas. Jonny from The Realm of the Ring went over to see where the locations were being set up: we knew that the Carterton showground was being used in case of bad weather, but Jonny managed to find a fairweather location, it seems. (more)
Jonny from The Realm of the Ring gave us an update on the new film location in the Wairarapa.
“Yesterday I went up to Carterton to see if I could spot any filming.I found out that due to the good weather they were using an area just north of Featherston (another small town near Carterton -T.)There were two JAMB signs pointing up two driveways next to each other. One very very long-looking driveway headed up towards a rather expensive homestay place and the other going to a private property. Back down the road there was another driveway that had a cottage that you could hire for a night or so, this driveway angled back and ran parallel to the driveway that LOTR are using. The sign also said that the cottage was 1.8km from the road. So we headed down this driveway that ran parellel to the LOTR driveway and watched through the trees as we drove along I saw cones every here and there. At about 1.5km (on our driveway) there was like a checkpoint kind of setup(on the LOTR driveway) and then their path headed out into a paddock. I didn’t spot any stars or any filming.”
So there we are, slightly further ahead than we were. We know where, we just don’t know WHAT. Good luck finding out,Jonny!