My good friend TBA from Brain-Damage, an E/N with a gonzo sense of humor, was kind enough to ask me a few questions about TORN and post it up. Check it out! [More]
Month: January 2001
The cool folks at New Line Cinema have sent me a countdown banner for the re-launch of the LOTR Website and theatrical trailer. I am pretty sure that the image includes our first ever look at Hugo Weaving as Elrond!!!!
From: DS
‘Just thought I would you know that the trailer will on the film ‘Lost Souls’ in the UK. I just heard it on the xfm (radio) out 12 Jan.’
I’m back from the long and by-no-means-finished NZ summer holidays, and I want to apologise to the many people who’ve emailed me in the last two weeks and have got no reply. Sorry about that. I hope to catch up on some of that correspondence soon.
Having been away from TORN for the same time, I don’t know if this has been said already, but I’d like to say a big thank you to the spies who’ve contributed to TheOneRing in the last 18 months or so. You’ve made long journeys on foot, boat, plane and train and you’ve waited up long cold nights under rain and stars. You’ve lugged heavy binoculars and telescopes around, you’ve pestered your friends and worried your families…well, you might have done that anyway, as dedicated Tolkien fans, but all of us in this internet community owe you thanks for sharing your experiences with us. And so we do thank you.
Simon Whittaker wrote to say, “You may be too young to know this, but “Frodo Lives” was a popular graffiti slogan in the sixties, and I thought now was the time to revive it!” and to that end he’s designed a T-shirt celebrating that phrase. You can check it out at Cafe Press
Yes, and the slogan’s been revived here in NZ too – it’s scratched into the one of the gateposts of the Wingate set in Wellington. Along with another cheeky bit of graffiti – “TheOneRing was here.”
Ringer Spy Sirelle sends in word on a new book about Tolkien and LOTR. [More]