Seems like them folks at Decipher have gotten a bit more LOTR to play around with. They’ve been…
Continue ReadingSeems like them folks at Decipher have gotten a bit more LOTR to play around with. They’ve been granted the rights to create a RPG based on Middle-earth.
DECIPHER TAKES ANOTHER KEY LICENSE FOR LORD OF THE RINGS PROPERTY
Company is Granted the Rights to Produce Roleplaying Games. [More]
Online Comic PvP has a strip today about LOTR, check it out. [More]
Curunir sends us this update:
“How time flies! Less than five months until we Barlimaniacs will be staring awkwardly at one another in the lobby of a Chicago hotel – BUT, that means you’ve still got almost three months to BECOME an awkwardly staring Barlimaniac! How’s that for lucky, eh?
You *do* want to put faces to the Barliman’s nicks, right? I mean REAL faces, not those years-old graduation photos that so many of us have scans of! Nope, I mean real, smiling, happy (possibly somewhat inebriated) faces, warm and filled with the relief of surviving the airport’s rigorous cavity search, and the joy of being in a position to carry out all of those /actions IRL!
So, if you’d like to join the teeming throng of Barlimaniacs making the perilous and fair journey to Chicago in August, check out our information page here, or email curunir@theonering.net with any questions you have! I’ll do my best to answer any put to me, with the exception of a few, that can only be answered in Chicago.
A few examples of the questions which will be answered in August:
Are Gandalf and Gamgee really the same person, as has been so frequently speculated?
Are those real snakes in jincey’s photos, or just very very good tattoos?
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? (Okay, I really don’t think this one will be answered, but what the heck…)
And, finally…what *does* a biker look like, when toting a feather duster?”
Decipher, the cool folks making the LOTR Cards for the films have recently ben showing off thier wares at GAMA 2001. Check out Gaming Havens for a cool pic and a link to see some more! [More]
Liv Tyler (Arwen) has recently spoken with Flaunt Magazine. In the interview Liv gives some very interesting tidbits on her character and the overall changes from the books to the films. [More]
From: Flaunt Magaine
Tyler, admittedly, is maybe a bit giddy lately over her relationship, partly because The Lord of the Rings has kept her away from home so much.
“I think I felt more homesick than anybody else, just by nature of how my character is,” she sighs. “The rest of the actors are all kind of together on this journey and my character is not.”
Tyler plays Arwen, the paramour of Aragorn (played by Viggo Mortensen) in the epic story. The rest of the cast includes Elijah Wood, Cate Blanchett, and Ian McKellen. “I had no idea what I was taking on,” Tyler continues. “I thought, Oh I can handle it, it’s only a year out of my life. Then again, the thought of being employed for a year was really nice.”
Tyler can’t divulge much about the film for fear of being attacked by an army of hobbits (direcor Peter Jackson, anyway). She does say that her story line diverts from the letter of the book and instead is drawn from the trilogy’s appendix. Tyler is in awe over how Jackson poured excruciatingly over every detail of the mythology surrounding the books, to the point they made the actorts learn a new language spoken by its characters-Elvish.
“It’s an amazing thing, really,” she gushes, “It’s a legitimate language. There are only a certain amount of people in the world who can speak it, like Oxford professors and what not. It’s such a beautiful language too, it’s really brilliant.” Asked to speak a few lines, Tyler obliges and though the words pouring out sound like gibberish, she speaks them delicately, fluidly, and it sounds like a gentler version of French done with a crisp New Zealand accent. Tyler translates, “I said, ‘Now my Lord, winter has not yet come. Would you before your time leave your people?’ And the last one I said was, ‘I’ll take him. I’m the fastest rider.'”
Thanks to Baffled for the tip!
