Hello again all! I hope you all have been brushing up on your Tolkien trivia! Our last winner was LadyWolf!!! Good job LadyWolf!!!! The answers were:
1) Guthwine
2) Tar-Ciryatan
3) Frodo
Here are the questions for today:
1) “During the riddle game between Gollum and Bilbo, what was it that Gollum remembered teaching his grandmother to do?”
2) “waelkotw” (Scrambled Tolkien person. place or thing)
3) “They did not die!” (Who said this?)
As usual, 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
Month: July 2000
Chris Field himself emailed us to set the record straight. He’s the guy who should know: He wrote the music. I took the opportunity to congratulate him, since we’d received so many emails demanding to know who’d written ‘that great music with the choir’ on the Internet preview.
Field wrote, ‘I am writing to clarify that the music”Gothic Power” (the choir music which is in the LOTR’s Preview) was composed by me and published by X-Ray Dog Publishing.” We had it down as ‘re-mixed by X-Ray Dog.’ It ain’t.
McKellen spoke a little about acting and ‘coming out of the closet’ as well as mentioning LOTR in this interview in TV Guide
While I have yet to confirm or deny Howard Shore as the composer for LOTR, here is some of his other work to ponder.
‘The Game’
‘Dogma’
‘Cop Land’
You will need either RealAudio, Windows Media or QuickTime to listen to these clips.
Thanks to Lynn for sending along this “blurb” from an interview with Ian McKellan from the July 14, 2000 edition of the Philadelphia Gay News.
“PGN: Two more questions: How are things going on “Lord of the Rings” down there in New Zealand?
IM: I’m in a hiatus at the moment. I go back after “X-Men” and do another five months, and I’m really enjoying it enormously. I’m enjoying being in New Zealand, which is a very, very beautiful small country. The script is astonishing, and I’ve got a fabulous part [Gandalf] so I’m a very happy bunny, really, and looking forward to being back.”
Today, July 24th is the scheduled re-start of principal photography on ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy. Judging on comments from Ian McKellen (Gandalf) ‘I’ll be heading back to New Zealand tomorrow (Sunday)’ and seeing the Hobbit boys back in town for the Queenstown Winter Festival, it looks like Peter Jackson et all are ready to get back to work.