GameSpy.com has a pair of very coolio Gandalf pics from the E3 LOTR game. Either this is what we’ll see in the game, or this could just be some groovy art. Check it out. [More]
Month: May 2001
WOW!! I received several Tolkien related memories from Tolkienites all over the globe! I am going to select one each week, in no particular order, and post them here! Here is installment #1!
When I was 5 and my brother was 7 my dad read The Hobbit to us. We liked it so much that he started reading The Lord of the Rings to us for a little bit every night. My dad loved the book and he would do different voices for all the characters. My brother and I looked forward to it every night even though we didn’t quite understand everything that was going on. We would sit there curled up next to dad on the couch in our pajamas as he read to us from the Big Red book that a friend from college had given him as a wedding present. We got all the way to the part where Frodo took Gollum prisoner, then we made him stop because it was getting too scary. Now as a sophomore in College I have read The Lord of the Rings 3 times and The Silmarillion once. I have hazy memories of black riders and beautiful elves from that first time but I was able to experience it on my own later when I could fully understand Tolkein’s writing. However, I will never forget dad’s gollum voice or the quality time he spent with us sharing a book that meant, and still means, so much to him.
Thanks Lindsay for the great Tolkien memory!!
Alan Hitt has sent me some sound bytes from this CD set, and WOW! Sounds like a great bit of Tolkien-inspired music making! Check out thier webpage, and listen to it for yourself! Watch for a full review here soon! [More]
As reported yesterday, the BBC program Film 2001 last night was recapping the Cannes Film Festival, and included in that recap was a segment on Lord Of The Rings. Liv Tyler (Arwen) managed to squeak out some Elvish during her interview, and we’ve got it for you! [More]
As reported yesterday, the BBC program Film 2001 last night was recapping the Cannes Film Festival, and included in that recap was a segment on Lord Of The Rings. The show begins with the presenter, Johnathan Ross working through the schedule from the show, and after talking about the main item on tonight’s show, Moulin Rouge, Ross moves onto the next item on the agenda:
“…….and Lord Of The Rings is premiered on the Riviera…well kind of.”
The screen changes to show Liv Tyler standing in front of the castle where the party was held, dressed in black. She begins to speak elvish! I think it sounds somewhat similar what she said on the Conan O’ Brien show a few weeks ago. See for yourself! Check out the attached recording I made of Tyler speaking Elvish. The reporter asks her what does it mean, to which she grins and says, “I’m not telling.” 15 minutes later, after a run through of Moulin Rouge and the Mummy Returns, and we finally come to Lord Of The Rings. During the paragraph below, we were shown several pieces of the trailer shown in cinemas a while ago put together. Then, once we moved onto the topic of interviews, it showed footage of several stars being interview in casual clothes, including Sean Bean, John Rhys-Davis and Viggo Mortensen, Sir Ian McKellen and Liv Tyler.
“Tolkien blockbuster to-be Lord Of The Rings debuted in Cannes this week, with distributors New Line allowing a select band of journo’s a sneek peek at a mere 20 minutes of footage. On the back of that the chosen few were then granted interviews with the films stars although the results have been embargoed until the film’s release in….December.”
The footage then changes to show images from the Lord Of The Rings party that was held in the castle, showing the reconstructed Hobbit-Hole with genuine Hobbits, and Sir Ian McKellen wearing a rather fetching Hawaiin shirt under a jacket.
The film set builders were then brought in to re-create Middle-Earth for the lavish party later that night, which, joy of joys, we ARE allowed to show you. Sir Ian McKellen breaks down the marketing hype – ‘I think it’s important that, uh, it should be talked about, because we’re desperate to have as many people as possible see it.’ “
And that was pretty much it. Nothing new, except some more Elvish from our lovely Lady Arwen.
*Bows Deeply*
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‘Lord of The Rings’ footage previews in New York. EW.com attends a 20 minute screening of the top secret Tolkien trilogy. [More]