From: Mormegil
Don’t know if you heard about this. Not that it has to do with upcoming movies, but in todays Kansas City (in the fyi section) there is an article about Summer reading. It gives a list of fantasy books good for reading, and mentions J.R.R.T. at the end.
Escapes into other fantastic worlds
The Hobbit and The Lord of theRings trilogy, by J.R.R. Tolkien. The Hobbit tells how Bilbo Baggins leaves his
sleepy home in the Shire to have adventures with a wizard and band of dwarfs. He then finds a magic ring that can make him disappear.
In the three books of The Lord of the Rings, readers find out that Bilbo’s ring is actually much more powerful. Bilbo’s nephew Frodo, along with a wizard named Gandalf and other helpers, must find a way to destroy the ring, or it will fall into the hands of its evil maker, Sauron.
-John Mark Eberhart, The Star
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Max wanted the Ring…
From: Matt
I don’t know if any of you know who DC Talk is, but some of you or your readers may be interested to know that Kevin Max, one of the lead singers of the band, had tried out for the part of Frodo before Elijah Wood had gotten the part.
How do I know this you ask? (sure..-Xo) well I was on his site at www.kevinmax.com and I sent him an e-mail to see if he knew about the LOTR movies (I knew that he was a fan of Medieval fiction) and as it turns out he is a huge J.R.R.T. fan and had actually tried out for the part.
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Since my last post I’ve gotten a few emails concerning LotR book sales. A Houghton-Mifflin employee chimed in with, “Tolkien sales generally have doubled over the last two years…” and this growth is expecected to continue. The word is that although there was a two-week backlog of LotR single-volume paperbacks orders, HM Co is 100% up to speed. [MORE]
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I thought you might like to read the notes yourself! Thanks to hyakuhei and Clay for mailing in.
… “In response to the Potter advertisement, I would just like to say that my local Waldenbooks and Hastings have a similar set up. Waldenbooks’ display even has a sign that says, ‘If you like Harry Potter, try J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings!'”
… “Yup. Sales are on the rise. Which is more than a little gratifying to those of us here at Houghton Mifflin. Tolkien sales generally have doubled over the last two years, with this year-to-date versus last year-to-date showing extremely healthy growth as well. Though press time for reprints is especially difficult to secure in the U.S. at the moment with printing plants around the country operating at 100% of their capacity, we’ve managed to stay ahead of demand in almost all cases. But we did just recently encounter a two-week delay on a substantial reprint of the one-volume paperback edition of The Lord of the Rings (could it be Potter wizardry afoot AGAIN?). Not to worry though… we’re back in stock already.”
… “Hate to bother you twice in the same night, but as I was searching all things Tolkien at Amazon.com (looking in vain for some out-of-print editions) I noticed that there are several books scheduled for an October 2000 release. Most are new editions of the History of Middle-earth, but I noticed at least one book, a $50 paperback entitled ‘The End of the Third Age’, that I’ve never noticed…”
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While this does not directly pertain to the Lord of the Rings, I thought I would share. If you are not a Mozilla (or Netscape 6 Tech Preview) user, you probably don’t need to read the rest of this.
Now if you are still with me, you are likely a Mozilla user, and you know what I mean by a Sidebar. If you would like TheOneRing.net news in your Mozilla sidebar you can visit my Mozilla Sidebar Installer to install TheOneRing.net news in your sidebar.
Note: These scripts can be used to display any RSS Source in your Mozilla Sidebar. If you are interested in getting a copy of the scripts stop over to my Mozilla Software page.
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Harry Knowles over at AICN has confirmed reports about a possible fall or X-Mas LOTR Trailer in theatres. The toss up was between the Adam Sandler ‘Little Nicky’ comedy or the Kevin Costner ‘Thirteen Days’ Cuban missile drama, it seems the later has won the argument. So now we have a new item to mark down on our calendars, 163 Days to go until the December 20th release of ‘Thirteen Days’ in theatres…that’s 3912 hours…234720 minutes….14083200 seconds…I’ve got a pocket scrabble set we can play with to pass the time…
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