You can catch, however brief, Miranda Otto (Eowyn) in the new thriller ‘What Lies Beneath’ which opens today in North America.
Month: July 2000
Greetings,
I managed to get some quick vidcaps of TV3’s coverage of the LOTR stars at the Queenstown Winter Festival Hollywood Ball. I apologise for the poor quality, but I was caught unawares while channel surfing and had to just make quick with my remote and jam it onto my poor old VHS VCR.
The first image shows Elijah Woods, Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd making their entrance.
The second is Elijah during a short interview. He says that filming is going well and that coming off a month’s vacation has him raring to go again.
Third image is of Sean Astin. He looks a bit tired. I assume it’s just from a long flight and a hectic schedule. I hope he gets a chance to get some rest.
Fourth image is Billy Boyd closing in to give the camera some tonsil viewing action.
Fifth is Orlando “The Mohawk” Bloom apologising for his friend’s behaviour.
I hope you find a use for these
Cheers
Kotukunui
Leandro over at the Spanish site Elfenomeno sent us a bit of news about one of those ‘Troll’ pictures we saw recently. He’d heard from the super-spy Galadriel that this thing is an Olog-Hai, or a hill-troll. They’re described at the end of Appendix F1, ‘The languages and peoples of the Third Age,’ where it says that they were bred by Sauron.This is what falls on Pippin, at the end of the chapter ‘The Black Gate Opens.’
The picture of this CGI beast is here, scroll down to the news for June 20th.
Hello again all! Gamgee here with another edition of the Tolkien fun section! You guys are going to have to be quick! Morden has bested you all again! The answers were:
1) Fram
2) Mithlond
3) Bombur
Here are the questions for today:
1) “Whats name translates to Battle-friend?”
2) “iyraantcart” (scrambled Tolkien person, place or thing)
3) “Wouldn’t an orc have suited it better?” (Who said this?)
As always, Mail me with your answers, the 1st person to send all 3 correct answers in one mailing will be posted here next time! Good luck!……….Gamgee
This is getting bigger by the minute. NZoom and TV1 News have the latest on what appears to be a crime ring stealing props and film from the LOTR production.
You can view their report here
UPDATE: There’s more detail again at stuff.co.nz
Hmmm. Osborne did not, if one reads carefully what he said, ever rule out that those props were stolen…..
Ever since the NZ army got involved in peacekeeping duties in East Timor, the Net has been reporting that this would mean that they couldn’t supply the thousands of extras wanted for some of the LOTR battle scenes, as originally planned. This was an early rumour, but it’s gone on growing until some of the sites it sound like the whole defence force is over there.
According to Radio NZ, there’s 660 NZ defence force personnel in East Timor now. I rang the army and asked them how many they have in total, and they said around 4500. So providing a few extras for LOTR shouldn’t cripple them too much. According to this July 18 report in “Stuff” they’re only providing 100 soldiers.