Word from Barbarshop: I don’t know if anyone’s reported this yet but our very own Brad Dourif (Wormtongue) is playing (voice) the new evil character on the PC/Mac game Myst III coming out on May, 8 2001. Booooo, hiss!
Month: April 2001
Ok, so these aren’t creepy facts about the LOTR cast and crew, more like coincidences. But after all, Friday the 13th isn’t supposed to be creepy…just kinda semi-creepy.
3 LOTR Stars in James Bond films
Christopher Lee (Scramanga in ‘The Man With the Golden Gun’)
John Rhys Davies (General Leonid Pushkin in ‘The Living Daylights’)
Sean Bean (006 in ‘Goldeneye’)
Ian Holm/
Ian McKellen
Both named Ian
Both knighted
Both born in England
Total Number of movies from the cast: 954 ( Christopher Lee [Saruman] has been in 22% of them)
Most films by a star: Christopher Lee 215
Least films by a star: 
Orlando Bloom 1
Ian Holm and John-Rhys Davies have the exact same number of movies under thier belts (92)
Ian Holm was in ‘S.O.S Titanic’ as J. Bruce Ismay, 
Bernard Hill was in ‘Titanic’ as Captain Smith. Jonathan Hyde was in ‘Titanic’ playing J. Bruce Ismay, he was also in ‘Hamlet, Prince of Denmark’, Ian Holm was also in a production of ‘Hamlet’
An inordinate amount of LOTR Stars have been in ‘Shortland Street’:
Marton Csokas
John Leigh
Robyn Malcolm
Craig Parker
Mark Ferguson
LOTR Stars in the same movie:
John Noble, Marton Csokas: The Monkey’s Mask Christopher Lee, Marton Csokas: Star Wars: Episode II
Miranda Otto, 
Viggo Mortensen: The Thin Red Line John Rhys-Davies, Christopher Lee: Journey of Honor
Movies in Which Jim Rygiel (SFX) worked on:
Last Action Hero ( Ian McKellen)
Movies in Which Howard Shore (Composer) worked on:
That Thing You Do! (
Liv Tyler)
Esther Kahn ( Ian Holm)
eXistenZ ( Ian Holm)
Different Native Countries of LOTR Stars:
United States of America
England
Scotland
New Zealand
Germany
Australia
From ‘Massey News’ comes a report that Peter Jackson and longtime companion Frances Walsh are to get honourary PhD’s in Literature. Congrats!
Thanks to Bluebottle for the tip!
From: sideburner
As of today swedish fans can enter a competition where first prize is a trip to Cannes and two tickets to the LOTR party. The party is taking place at a castle near Cannes where props from the films have been used to create a “middle-earth like” setting. Peter Jackson and some (I think all -Xo) of the actors are going to be present. The contest, wich ends april 27,is held by SF (Svensk Filmindustri) at the official swedish LOTR site.
See you in the south of France 🙂
An extreemly hilarious spoof on our LOTR Trailer has popped up at ifilm.com, click on over to see ‘Lord of the Rims’… [More]
Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) loved the horse he worked with on LOTR so much that he bought it and shipped it back to the States with him. Get the whole story over at Glaurung’s Hoard. [More]