Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn)
28 Days (2000)
Walk on the Moon, A (1999)
Thin Red Line, The (1998) 
Perfect Murder, A (1998) UK 
Psycho (1998) UK
Portrait of a Lady, The (1996) UK
Passion of Darkly Noon, The (1995)
Prophecy, The (1995)
American Yakuza (1994)
Boiling Point (1993) UK
Young Americans, The (1993) UK
Ruby Cairo (1993)
Two Small Bodies (1993)
Indian Runner, The (1991)
Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990) UK
Young Guns II (1990)
Fresh Horses (1988) UK
Witness (1985)
Liv Tyler (Arwen)
Dr. T and the Women (2000)
Plunkett & Macleane (1999) UK
Inventing the Abbotts (1997) UK
Stealing Beauty (1996)
Ian Holm (Bilbo)
Joe Gould’s Secret (2000)
Bless the Child (2000)
Simon Magus (1999/I) UK
Animal Farm (1999) (TV)
King Lear (1997) (TV) UK
Fifth Element, The (1997)
Madness of King George, The (1994) UK
Hamlet (1990)
Henry V (1989)
Dance with a Stranger (1985)
Time Bandits (1981)
Chariots of Fire (1981) UK
Alien (1979) UK
S.O.S. Titanic (1979) (TV)
Shout at the Devil (1976)
Robin and Marian (1976) UK
Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
Bofors Gun, The (1968) UK
Fixer, The (1968) UK
Sean Bean (Boromir)
Airborne (1998)
When Saturday Comes (1996) UK
GoldenEye (1995)
Stormy Monday (1988)
Hugo Weaving (Elrond)
Matrix, The (1999) UK
Bedrooms & Hallways (1998)
Babe: Pig in the City (1998) UK
Babe (1995) UK
Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The (1994)
Karl Urban (Eomer)
Heaven (1998)
Miranda Otto (Eowyn)
What Lies Beneath (2000)
Jack Bull, The (1999) (TV) UK
Thin Red Line, The (1998) UK
David Wenham (Faramir)
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999)
Boys, The (1997/I) UK
No Escape (1994)
Elijah Wood (Frodo)
Black and White (1999)
Faculty, The (1998) UK
Forever Young (1992) UK
Avalon (1990) UK
Internal Affairs (1990) UK
Cate Blanchett (Galadriel)
Pushing Tin (1999) UK
Ideal Husband, An (1999) UK
Talented Mr. Ripley, The (1999) UK
Elizabeth (1998)
Ian McKellen (Gandalf)
Apt Pupil (1998) UK
I’ll Do Anything (1994)
Shadow, The (1994)
Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
Last Action Hero (1993) UK
Plenty (1985) UK
Scarlet Pimpernel, The (1982) (TV)
Alfred the Great (1969) UK
John Rhys-Davies (Gimli)
Au Pair (1999) (TV)
Secret of the Andes (1998) UK
Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996) (V)
Bloodsport 3 (1996)
Sunset Grill (1993)
King Solomon’s Mines (1985)
Nairobi Affair (1984) (TV) UK
Victor/Victoria (1982)
Andy Serkis (Gollum)
Topsy-Turvy (1999) UK
Among Giants (1998) UK
Mojo (1997) UK
Bruce Spence (Mouth of Sauron)
Sweet Talker (1991)
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
Sean Astin (Sam)
Kimberly (1999)
Bulworth (1998) UK
Dish Dogs (1998)
Long Way Home, The (1997) UK
Teresa’s Tattoo (1994)
Low Life, The (1994/I)
Encino Man (1992) UK
Staying Together (1989)
War of the Roses, The (1989)
Like Father, Like Son (1987) UK
Goonies, The (1985)
Christopher Lee (Saruman)
Sleepy Hollow (1999) UK
Jinnah (1998) UK
Tale of the Mummy (1998) UK
Mio min Mio (1987) UK
Howling II (1985)
Safari 3000 (1982)
Last Unicorn, The (1982)
1941 (1979) UK
Arabian Adventure (1979)
Return from Witch Mountain (1978) UK
Wicker Man, The (1973) UK
Nothing But the Night (1972)
Scream and Scream Again (1969)
Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968)
Five Golden Dragons (1967)
Amère victoire (1957)
Battle of the River Plate, The (1956) UK
My Brother’s Keeper (1948) UK
Scott of the Antarctic (1948) UK
Bernard Hill (Theoden)
Criminal, The (2000) UK
True Crime (1999) UK
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1999) UK
Ghost and the Darkness, The (1996) UK
Mountains of the Moon (1990) UK
Shirley Valentine (1989) UK
Bounty, The (1984)
Runners (1983) UK
Gandhi (1982) UK
Brad Dourif (Wormtongue)
Bride of Chucky (1998) UK
Urban Legend (1998) UK
Best Men (1997)
Death Machine (1995)
Amos & Andrew (1993)
Child’s Play 3 (1991)
Hidden Agenda (1990)
Spontaneous Combustion (1989)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980) (TV)
Jim Rygiel (SFX)
Anna and the King (1999)
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) UK
Cliffhanger (1993) UK
Last Action Hero (1993) UK
Last of the Mohicans, The (1992)
Alien³ (1992) UK
Batman Returns (1992) UK
Solar Crisis (1990) UK
Ghost (1990)
2010 (1984)
Howard Shore (Composer)
High Fidelity (2000)
Analyze This (1999) UK
Game, The (1997) UK
Striptease (1996)
Truth About Cats & Dogs, The (1996)
Before and After (1996)
Se7en (1995)
Ed Wood (1994)
Guilty as Sin (1993)
Prelude to a Kiss (1992)
Single White Female (1992) UK
Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)
Postcards from the Edge (1990)
Innocent Man, An (1989)
She-Devil (1989)
Big (1988)
Moving (1988)
After Hours (1985) UK
Places in the Heart (1984) UK
Peter Jackson (Director)
Contact (1997) (as additional visual effects supervisor)
To get more information, use the sites I use like:
mydigiguide.com, tv-now.com and IMDB.com
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Chapter VI: The Old Forest
Whether you’re a first time Lord of the Rings reader or you’ve read it a dozen times, there’s nothing like discussing the actual book chapter by chapter. That’s what we’re doing in The Hall of Fire, and you are invited to join us for our next installment on April 28 & 29.
The Old Forest is a particularly good chapter. Frodo, Sam, Pippin and Merry leave Crickhollow and head into one part of what is left of Middle-earth’s ancient forest. Inhabited by the likes of soured Old Man Willow and unflappable Tom Bombadil, the Old Forest stands out as the hobbit’s first face to face encounter with death. Tolkien’s creative mind gets cooking in chapter six to be sure!
Check out this chat in a time zone near you:
Place: #thehalloffire on theonering.net server; come to theonering.net’s chat room Barliman’s and then type /join #thehalloffire .
Saturday Chat: 7:00 pm ET (19:00) [also 12:00 am Sunday (0:00) GMT and 9:00 am Sunday (09:00) AET]
Sunday Chat: 8:00 pm (20:00) AET [also 11:00 am (11:00) GMT and 6:00 am (06:00) ET]
Sunday Chat: 6:00 pm (18:00) GMT [also 1:00 pm (13:00) ET and 3:00 am (03:00) Monday morning AET]
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GMT = Greenwich Mean Time, the time in Western Europe
AET = Australian Eastern Time, the time on Australia’s east coast
Questions? Topics? Send ‘em here.
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Ringer Spy Olorin sends in info on the LOTR based board game ‘The Search’. [More]
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Ever heard of a game company called Melkor-Bradley? Me neither, but now thanks to Ringer spy Nate I can direct you towards the homepage of their fine products. As well as the LOTR board game, don’t forget to check their other board games ‘Anna Kareninopoly’ and ‘Jane Eyre’s Chutes and Ladders.’ They have some nice deals going with Arizona real estate and the Brooklyn bridge too. [More]
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Camilla Maling of Radio New Zealand caught up with two of the musicians who will feature in the ‘Rings’ soundtrack and they were able to talk about how their Celtic music will become part of Howard Shore’s score. [More]
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This morning there was an interview on Radio New Zealand with two of the musicians who will be featured on the ‘Lord of the Rings’ soundtrack. I’ve transcribed the parts of the interview that concerned the movies; sometimes the speech on the interview wasn’t clear so I’ll have to apologise for any inaccuracies that might cause.
RNZ: Technology might have made the filming of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ possible, but it’s good old-fashioned music that’ll bring Tolkien’s creatures to life.
Alan Kelly: My name’s Alan Kelly and I’m the guitarist and singer with the group ‘The Barleyshakes. I’m over here with Alan Doherty, a great flautist. In the last months we arranged…that we’d come over here this week to record with ‘The Lord of the Rings.’ …for a small piece of the music they needed…one of the pieces of music…I think they call it ‘The Theme” [this I couldn’t hear clearly] …it’s for the opening scene … so we’ll be recording that with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
I’ll just be playing the Irish drum, the [bodhran?] which means ‘deaf ear’ or ‘dull sound’ – that’s the Gaelic for that.
Alan will tell you a bit about the flute playing…that’s Alan Doherty to my right here….
We played one concert last time when we were here which was for the Hutt Valley Art Association at the Sacred Heart School at the Hutt…that enabled Howard Shore [the Rings composer – T] to come and see us and liase with…
Alan Doherty: – He’s the composer of the music…
Alan Kelly: – and he was happy with what we did, so that’s basically why we’re here. We came out under our own steam last time, this time they helped us out.
RNZ: So you must be familiar with the kind of tunes that are going to be involved in the music for ‘The Lord of the Rings?’
Alan Doherty: We got a bit of a shock ‘cos I got a recording of the piece of music that I thought was going to be the piece of music, so I learnt it off, and me not being able to read music I’d have to rewind and play it a lot of times on tape and try and learn it by ear – which I did. And then I come over here, and went into the hotel room, and get handed the CD of this kind of music, and it’s changed a bit….
RNZ: What’s this music like?
Alan Doherty: It’s a classical piece of music – it’s kind of Celtic but it’s not really …I’m going to be the soloist and that’s – the lead bit is a Celtic kind of tune –
Alan Kelly: It’s classical-based…
Alan Doherty: It’s classical-based, with an orchestra.
Alan Kelly: It’s to represent when the Hobbits are walking through the forest. So bits of it are dark, bits of it are bright, […] leaves the sun coming through the trees…it’s kind of neat[?]
RNZ: Why is there the Celtic connection? Is it a kind of myth and fantasy kind of sound?
Alan Kelly: Yeah, it sits into that type of world. Celtic music’s very old, it’s the ancientest type of music.
RNZ: When you were recording with the NZSO, as you say, you were given a CD and you… have to learn it and you have to go perform it – you can’t improvise. How do you feel in those situations?
Alan Doherty: Well, I was told to improvise, actually.
Alan Kelly: I can’t improvise.
Alan Doherty: He’s got to stick to a certain beat but..He [the composer] basically said to me – ‘There is the basic music.’ I won’t go off the rails with it – I just put in a couple of trills in there.
Alan Kelly went on to discribe the drum he used in the recording. It’s a circular hand-drum made with a goatskin stretched over a round frame. It’s played with a small stick. The pitch is altered with the right hand while playing. Alan Doherty talked about the tin whistles and flutes that he played, which most people will be familiar with.
These excerpts are from a National Radio programme supplied by Replay Radio, RNZ Ltd. You can order a copy of this programme by calling 0800 REPLAY (737 529) within NZ.
The Radio NZ website is Radio NZ
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