Calisuri and Pippin have been working hard to update the Frame-by-Frame analysis for you! Check it out here! [More]
Month: May 2001
Glass Hammer’s much anticipated return to J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth has been captured on this new release: an album that dares to go where Journey of the Dunadan could not — straight to Middle-Earth itself — for a live set from Glass Hammer on the stage of Barliman Butterbur’s Prancing Pony Inn! [More]
I think too much of a good thing can be fatal, while we at the website have little choice in the amount of spoilers and advanced footage and whatnot we see daily, you the fan have the right to refuse to see things that will eventually ruin the film for you. And you should use that control!
These latest pics that we have a link to on the front page are my number one concern, why? Well while they are truly amazing to look at, they show Balin’s Tomb, but it’s just a STILL photograph, dead to the eye, with no redeeming qualities whatsoever, these are films, and no matter how nice a shot from the films looks, it is still only a SHOT from the films, there is alot missing there, no sound, no musical score, no voices from the charcters, and most of all no movement!
Some things even I get angry at having seen ahead of time, such as Balin’s Tomb, I just wish I could have been sitting in the theatre, with the Shore score in my ears, as we follow John Rhys-Davies into that tomb, and we see his sadness and anger…but now it’s ruined, because now I KNOW what it will look like, yet I still don’t know what it will FULLY look like, and if we can’t see it 100% compete then we should not see it at all!
But fear not, those that need all-spoilers-all-the-time, we will deliver the goods, like I said, we have a duty to bring you everything Tolkien, I just wanted a moment to rant. 🙂
Thoughts and opinions presented here are Xoanon’s and Xoanon’s alone, but my mommy checked the spelling
When I saw the Cannes footage this year, I didn’t think we’d see so many images from that footage online! I was wrong! Follow this link for a great new image of Gandalf in front of the gates, and then…when you click on that image, wait for some REALLY cool Moria pictures to load. We have Gimli kneeling before Balin’s Tomb; Aragorn preparing to defend; And some great shots of the Orcs. (I personally would NOT look at these if I were you -Xo) !SPOILERS [More]
Korean film companies are among the latest to become interested in using New Zealand’s high-tech film postproduction facilities and range of outstanding locations, according to an article on scoop.co
There’s a funny article about this over at NZ’s Stuff.co website – thanks to Del for the tipoff.
Talking of spoofs, anyone who hasn’t been following the Tolkien Sarcasm Page’s mammoth work in bringing LOTR online as e-text (well, sort of), check it out here.
PS If you have or know of any Tolkien humor, please send it in to Tookish@theonering.net. Thanks!