avault.com is reporting that a composer has been chosen to work on the music and sound for the Sierra LOTR game. [More]
Month: May 2001
Ringer Spy Claus O sends in the latest from the Danish Magazine ‘TDC Magasinet’. [More]
From: Claus O
Are you still interested in stuff about LotR being mentioned in papers and such? (of course! – Xo) Well, here’s a small article from the May issue of “TDC Magasinet” on page 34 (a small magazine published by Danish tele-company TDC (Tele Danmark Communications). The article reads as follows (English Translation):
Hobbits hits on the Net
The internet has been a part of creating an enormous advance interest in the coming three movies based on the fantasy novels about the hobbits, Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings.”
The first one premieres in December, but just an early trailer for the movie garnered enormous attention. I the span of the first 24 hours it was downloaded almost two million times on the internet, which is an unofficial world record.
And that’s even in spite of he company behind the movies has shrouding the filming in mystery. But from first go the Tolkien-fans around the world has had a encompassing network on the internet where even the smallest tidbit of news from the filming on New Zealand has been passed on and discussed. There has even been an exchange of spy photos from the filming and a couple of satellite pictures [???].
The great advance interest has had some unexpected side effects. A few dishonest souls on the production crew has stolen items from the movies and put them up for sale on internet auctions, where e.g. swords from the filming has been sold for a small fortune.
The official English page is at this address:
www.lordoftherings.net
Greetings – Check out the new Green Books for May. We are up to our eyeballs in good stuff:
• Turgon pulled out the big guns against that nasty critic from the New York Times! Check out the wonderful reader response in his Bookshelf.
• You will laugh your knickers off when you read Tookish’s Ticklers. New cartoons, jokes, and a fine Marx Brothers parody from Whistler.
• Anwyn is back, joining us for the mother-lode of all Q&A! We have a jaw-dropping 30 new articles, including:
- Why does Tolkien malign Wolves as evil?
- Why not give the Ring to Treebeard?
- Why is Legolas not respected as a Prince?
- What are the ‘other evils of the world’ Gandalf mentions?
- Is Rivendell the safest place in Middle-earth?
- Was Grond the same as Morgoth’s mace?
• Our Special Guests include an amazing, in-depth look at the perils of modernity: “Where the Shadows Lie” and a thoughtful take on gender attitudes via Éowyn and Faramir: “Macho Men & Warrior Princesses.”
• Moon Letters is updated with new stories, poems, and a great essay on Boromir as the perfect model of Aristotle’s tragic character: “Looking at Boromir.”
• There are new updates in red to previous Q&A.
• Join us as we explore the WORDS and WORLDS of Tolkien.
Much too hasty,
Quickbeam
Elijah Wood [Frodo] was spotted and overheard in Wellington recently , according to Tiggy. [More]
This came in thanks to Tiggy, who saw it in the Wellington paper” The Dominion.”
A jolly and very loud hobbit, Frodo, was overheard, by a surely overpaid Diary spy in Oriental Bay’s exclusive White House restaurant, complaining about production difficulties and a promotion for LOTR which had brought him, Viggo Mortensen and others back to Wellington. The interest for our spy was how anyone could be in a complaining frame of mind while dining on the restaurant’s Oysters Kilpatrick.”
(Well, a twelve-hour flight would do it to me – T)