British actor John Rhys-Davies (Gimli) is promising JRR Tolkien fans that that the upcoming ‘Lord Of The Rings’…
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British actor John Rhys-Davies (Gimli) is promising JRR Tolkien fans that that the upcoming ‘Lord Of The Rings’ film trilogy will not disappoint. [More]
Xoanon here, after finally being able to listen to the RealVideo files and cleaning up the drool on my floor (I ADORE JRD, his voice, his mannerisms, his laugh), I was amazed to hear that he talks about Gimli’s attempt to destroy the ring! So we now know a little more as to what we’ll see in Fellowship this winter!
Thanks to Ringer Andy for sending us this link to an article from Ananova.com (originally from canoe.ca):
“The director of the animated version of Lord Of The Rings says he thinks it’s impossible to transfer Tolkien’s words to the big screen.
Ralph Bakashi directed an animated version of JRR Tolkien’s books in 1978.
He was criticised at the time for cutting out certain characters and not taking the film to the end of Tolkien’s third book The Return Of The King.” [More]
From: Ant
In case you haven’t seen this the one of the screenwriters for the LOTR movies will be a special guest at the 32nd Annual Mythopoeic Conference this August. Check out the details here.
Some LOTR castmembers have been busy with other projects as of late, and some of the news is catching up on the web.
The new Sean Bean (Boromir) film ‘EQUILIBRIUM’ has a spoiler rich review over on AICN. [More]
The Matrix sequel ‘Reloaded’ has been filming in California for a while, check out some behind the scenes pics of the latest Hugo Weaving (Elrond) film. [More]
From: David
America On Line has an opening page “commercial” for LOTR. It features links to some sites, a commentary on the 20 minutes of footage shown at Cannes (and apparently in New York too!), some stills, and the trailer.
From: Odin
I was reading the biggest tabloid paper in norway this morning, and when I got to the cartoon pages I saw this:
A norwegian cartoon character called Nemi was sleeping outside the theatre in a sleeping bag when this guy from the ticket box shouted something like “hey! wake up, you can’t sleep here! I’ve told you a million times; The Lord Of The Rings doesn’t release until december!” [More]
