Ian McKellen speaks a bit about his role as Gandalf in this x-men-the-movie.com online interview. (LOTR questions begin around the 11th question) [more]
Month: July 2000
The NZ Herald has yet another story about some more LOTR thefts of props and costumes. [more]
From: John Cook
Hi, Xoanan! Thought I’d let you know of a new Lord of the Rings cartoon caption contest I’m running this week. The comic strip features a falling Gandalf as he battles the Balrog (along with caricatures of most of the other 9 walkers too). Check it out and submit your own punchlines for Gandalf here.
John is featured in our LOTR Comics Section located as a subsection of Fan.TheOneRing.net. Check it out Today! [comics section]
Houghton Mifflin has some exciting news for you die hards! A new paperback release of The History of the Lord of the Rings (a subset of The History of Middle-earth) will be issued on August 3. More details [here].
Call It ‘Lord of the Bootlegs’
by Kim Griggs
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Filmmaker Peter Jackson is deadly serious about keeping under wraps the movie trilogy based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings that he’s filming in New Zealand. [More]
Thanks to Daniel W for the tip!
Here is the detailed text from Houghton-Mifflin.
…The forthcoming paperback set of the History of the Lord of the Rings, which ships August 3rd, is technically a subset of the History of Middle-earth and is available in the U.S. in paperback for the first time.
Those familiar with the 9th volume of the Middle-earth series in hardcover (Sauron Defeated) will know that it contains The Notion Club Papers and other material that does not pertain specificly to LotR. For this new paperback boxed set, called the Hist of LotR, the non-LotR material has been cut out of volume 9 to create a “new” book called The End of the Third Age, which has been re-indexed. THAT book, EofTA, will only be $12, not $50 as reported.
The full set of the paperback editions, Return of the Shadow ($14), Treason of Isengard ($14), War of the Ring ($14), and End of the Third Age ($12) will be offered in as a box set for $50, and is designed to match Houghton Mifflin’s current four-volume boxed set of LotR and The Hobbit…
Happy reading! It’s always a pleasure to find ‘new’ Tolkien material coming into circulation.