As time goes on we’re going to see a lot of these; all credit to Josephina for getting the ball rolling sooner than most. Here’s her invitation:
“Dear Tolkien fans all over the world,
We have started to work out the details for the Fan Fellowship Gathering in Dallas, Texas to celebrate the release of the first LOTR movie “The Fellowship of the Ring,” together as fans from all over the world.
If you are already on the attending list please send me your email address so I can contact you and keep you personally posted. If you are not yet on our list and wish to join us please send me an email. And please send me your true name also – it will look better on the list we send to the contact people . Your email address will not pass me. Only your names for attendance information. Thanks .
I will arrange a Motel for fans to stay at the night before and the night after the movie. ( you will have to provide the costs yourself but I will see if I can make this as cheap as possible for you )
As far as we know the date is SET for the 19th of December 2001. Let us have a tad more confirmation on that, hopefully within the next week or so, then we can start ordering our flight tickets.
We have wonderful contacts and it looks like this is going to be a promising event.
Information so far.
Tolkien Fan Fellowship Gathering
To Celebrate the release of The Fellowship of the Ring
Fans from all over the Globe
Dallas, Texas
19 December 2001
Thank you Deanna and Peta, and the sites helping us out, for your support, and to our Contact people also many, many thanks .
Josephina
miruvin@srv.net
( please use this address as directed only )
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TORN’s Spanish-language community members over at Elfenomeno are good at organsing parties. They’ve planned a big gathering near Barcelona for their members and any interested Tolkien fans starting on April 28th. This would have to be wall-to-wall fun, so anyone interested in finding out more should head over to their site. [ More]
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Further to our report from the Games Workshop who are making LOTR-themed figures for their Middle-earth battlegame, we got this in the mail:
I noticed that there was no mention of a BALROG in the ‘Forces of Evil’ list of figures on the GAMES WORKSHOP site. I found this slightly worrying as they did have other Moria stuff listed, so I decided to enquire at the big Games Workshop in (somewhere secret otherwise they’ll get in trouble.)
The guy I talked to there was very excited about the whole thing, and seemed to know more about it than he was letting on, and HE said that there definitely WOULD be a Balrog produced by them, and that it would be some sort of special release, separately boxed type thing. He also said that although all the other figures would be released up to 6 weeks before the release of the film, the Balrog figure is not allowed to be released until AFTER the film. This is apparently because of the secrecy surrounding what the Balrog will actually look like, and he mentioned how closely guarded the stills/pictures were.”
Thanks to Luthien Tinuviel for a great scoop
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The May 2001 print edition of Yahoo! Internet Life has a small article on page 51 about LOTR. The title of the article? “Lord of the Rings Hype. So much buzz, so little to watch – so far.” Ouch! [More]
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The May 2001 print edition of Yahoo! Internet Life has a small article on page 51 about LOTR. The title of the article? “Lord of the Rings Hype. So much buzz, so little to watch – so far.” Ouch!
Yahoo! Internet Life
Josh Robertson
“The three-year Lord of the Rings flog fest promises to be the most fully realized online publicity campaign to date. The first trailer for the first film, this December’s The Fellowship of the Ring, appeared online at The Lord of the Rings Trilogy [lordoftherings.net] in January, with some brief impressions of what we can expect as far as scenery — including a particularly stunning tableau of a vast army swarming over a plain — but little about characters or plot. The site, which works in tandem with a RealPlayer channel, stores a lot of interviews with director Peter Jackson and his special-effects staff. However, the clips here leave something to be desired — you might as well be reading a transcript. Far more satisfying to Tolkien lovers is the short Lord of the Rings preview, available on the official site and as a QuickTime movie at the Apple site since last year. With interviews alongside shots of stuntment on stilts, images from the production, and other teasers, this is the two minutes that has all Middle Earthlings drooling.“
– JOSH ROBERSTON
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While I was listening to TOPPS fiscal fourth quarter report and year end conference call…well, okay, maybe it wasn’t me listening, but ZDnet.com was! This is an excerpt from their report:
“The company is on track to introduce trading cards featuring the new ‘Planet of the Apes’ movie this summer. ‘Lord of the Rings’ trading cards and sticker/album collections are planned for late 2001.” [More]
So i guess we can expect to see those cards in the checkout aisle at Wal-mart! Our very own staff member, Quickbeam, wrote an article for Green Books on the potential threat of Merchandising Hell. Check it out! [More]
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