DarthCaeser, from our very own Gaming Havens recieved this today:
Vivendi Universal Publishing and Tolkien Enterprises Announce Long-Term, Exclusive Deal to Create Games Based on Classic Fantasy Novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. [More]
Month: May 2001
Ian Holm is the topic of an article over at EmpireOnline:
“The hobbit hero of The Lord of The Rings may be Elijah Woods, but veteran actor Sir Ian Holm also sports the trademark furry feet as Frodo’s cousin Bilbo.” [More]
Our beloved Sam aka. Sean Astin is teaming up with some old friends to record the audio commentary for “The Goonies” DVD. Thanks to TORN staff member Pippin_Took for the story! [More]
The image-flood continues, and this time the Realm of the Ring has Eomer [Karl Urban] in battle. At last we can see one of the great captains of Rohan in detail. [More] Notice the horsetail plume on his helmet, and the way the nosepiece is moulded into the shape of a horse’s head. This is absolutely what you would expect from a culture who made the horse central to their existence.
It looks like he’s wearing a chainmail shirt and over that what could be a leather cuirass, gilded and embossed with that slightly celtic-looking spiral pattern. Boiled leather was sometimes used as a hard, lightweight armour well-suited to riders, I believe.
Here in another shot we can see more men of Rohan – possibly Eomer again – posted on guard. The rough massive stonework of the stairway they guard looks like Helm’s Deep, so this could be a shot of the long tense buildup to the attack of Saruman’s army. [More]
These could get your heart racing. Realm of the Ring has some battle scenes posted as well. [here] and [here]
You can see a different armour with a high helm and interesting slatted armour. Could this be the defence of Minas Tirith? Lots of pennons flying around – so many you wonder how anyone can fight [here]
I was talking to somebody recently who’d seen the rushes for the battle scenes. He wasn’t able to tell me much apart from that they looked awesome. I pressed him further: “What made them look more amazing than other similar battlescenes – say Braveheart for instance?”
He replied that it was the camerawork, which is amazingly fluid, panning over the vast armies, diving and zooming to get right amongst the action. That fluid, dynamic camerawork something about PJ’s style that’s been a feature since his early splatter films, where film critics noted that he was able to make very complex action look exciting while keeping it very clear what is happening.
This morning we identified Timothy Bartlett as the hobbit on the left in this picture. [here] What about the Hobbit on the right? Ringer fan Dave sent us a very convincing argument that this hobbit may be a familiar face for some! [More]