Thanks to Matt, we get a look at some of the unintentionally funniest LOTR merchandising we’ve seen so far. It’s over at Elostirion and it could be joke, but on the other hand, it could be true. Look and marvel. (More)
Month: April 2001
Matt sent me a link that quite frankly came close to making me lose my dinner suddenly. It could be a joke…I mean, we’ve all made jokes about things like the Arwen doll with light-up Evenstar and poisoned Frodo….the Asfaloth with custom galloping action…but could these things ever become reality? According to the news at Elostirion, they could! Well, there’s never been a proven limit to bad taste, otherwise after 30 years of giggling at flares, people wouldn’t be wearing them again.
I know I know, in a free country it’s not actually a crime to suffer from bad taste, (shame, that) and the toys people play with in the privacy of their own homes is nobody elses business but their own…. but really, you have to marvel at this. Don’t miss the link at the bottom to the LOTR marble bag . Collect and trade! (You WILL be assimilated. Where’s the little marble that says “All your base are belong to us”?) (More…..ARRRGH!)
The debate between purists and revisionists is nothing new – it existed before the LOTR film project was announced. As far as the books go, there’s always been a Tolkien Society devoted to respectful scholarship and celebration of the works of Tolkien. There’s also an Alternative Tolkien Society, for those who can’t get enough of a good thing…they’ve gone on to create MORE history for Middle-earth. They’ve relaunched their website, which you can see here
Media entertainment site [DigitalMediaFX.com] reports that eager NZ’ers hope to draw Hollywood to them with the release of Tolkien’s LotR. [More]
This could only be the work of a rabid LOTR fan…
The usually on-the-spot entertainment news show Access Hollywood made a huge faut pas just this past minute by showing the wrong website while talking about LOTR.
The show mentioned the massive number of hits by the official site (lordoftherings.net), but showed clips from an un-official fan made site lordoftherings.com. Arg…never trust TV, stick with us and the web 🙂