Hullo! Sorry to post this so late, been wrestling with my puter lo these many days. Hope to see you Saturday!
Tookish
Hammer and Tongs, the Hall of Fire Is at It Again!
If you could learn any Middle-earth skill, what would it be? Stealth, from Hobbits? Making elven cloaks? Ring forging (ok maybe not ring forging 😉 )? How to make lembas?
One of the fascinating attributes of Middle-earth is the craftiness of its peoples. Dwarf, elf, human, hobbit, all have special characteristics, skills, and talents. Come on down to the Hall of Fire and tell us what *you’d* like to be able to do!
Saturday, July 1, at 5:30 EST [10:30 GMT]
Check out The Hall of Fire homepage for more details.
All obvious jokes aside, Entertainment Weekly has listed the Pacific Rim the ‘IT’ spot, for movie making that is. Citing ‘The Beach’, ‘M:I2’, ‘Moulin Rouge’, and our ‘LOTR’ as being filmed in and around the Rim (why they left out Star Wars is beyond me). Check it out in the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly (with good old Canadian boy Hayden ‘Anakin Skywalker’ Christensen on the cover), or click here.
From: Guizos
The RPG brazilian magazine called ‘Dragão Brasil’ published a great report about The Lord of The Rings production. The report brings lots of pics from the net preview and 4 pages talking about the movie details. Special effects, cast and some cool information about Tolkien’s life, the books, and his influences in the RPG history.
There is only one problem: ‘Dragão Brasil’s June edition, with Lord of The Rings report, is sold out in almost every place. The fans will have to fight to buy it.
To view the articles, click here.
The new U.K. magazine ‘3D World’ has a small section on The Lord of the Rings, entitled; “ROSAS HEADS SOUTH”
“Talented animator Carlos Rosas, lead animator on Walking With Dinosaurs, has left Framestore for a new life in New Zealand. He’s joined WETA Ltd to work on the digital effects and 3D animation in the company’s huge cinema production, The Lord of the Rings.”
Rosas has also worked on Leonardo DiCaprio’s ‘The Beach’ and ‘Jason and the Argonauts’. Read more about him here.
Thanks to Dominic for the article.
You can catch Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) on ‘A Perfect Murder’ on Cinemax. [More]
You can see Sean Bean (Boromir) in ‘Airborne’ on Cinemax. [More]
You can catch Bernard Hill (Theoden) in ‘True Crime’ on Cinemax. [More]
From: John Cook
The good folks at ToonZone send along the following:
We’re running a new Lord of the Rings cartoon punchline contest this week. This one features caricatures of Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas as they meet Gandalf the White for the first time! Check it out and submit your own punchlines for Gandalf here.
