Ringer Spy Ryan sends along word of his encounter with some LOTR Cast members!
My girlfriend is working on a movie that Bernard Hill (Theoden) is currently in, and he told her that he was bringing “some hobbits” to the set last night. So she had me come up to visit on the off chance that I could get an autograph or two. Sure enough, I was lucky enough to meet Bernard, Elijah Wood (Frodo) and Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn)!
Now, much has been said about how nice Elijah Wood is, but I’ve got to tell you that he is probably the nicest, coolest person I’ve ever met, especially considering the whirlwind that is already starting to spiral around him. He was particularly impressed with my 1973 Ballantine FOTR paperback, which was cool. All three of them were gracious enough to sign my book. (I was thinking about scanning the page for you to post, but I decided against it out of respect for the three of them.) I really liked what Elijah wrote: “Enjoy the journey.” Elijah still has a definite accent from the role. I mentioned it to him and he was shocked, but my girlfriend and I both thought it was pretty obvious.
They were also more than happy to show off their tattoos, which were beautiful (Elijah!! Send me a pic of that tatoo!! -Xo). Bernard also has a tattoo, of Theoden’s stamp, which is a lovely, intricate square. Unfortunately, I was too excited to make any sort of decent conversation, so I really don’t have anything newsworthy to report, just that all three of them were incredibly nice and positively enamored with the project.
Check out the story of just WHICH film Bernard Hill is working on now!
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Ringer Spy O sends along word of a website where you can preview the rules for the new LOTR boardgame ‘LOTR: The Search’. [More]
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We’ve reported about the Hollywood Stock Exchange before. Here is a FOTR update thanks to Gino
This is a big simulation game where players trade movie stocks. Well the Fellowship of the ring (LRDRN) is currently trading at 192,64 HSX$. What it means is that the players think the movie will gross a huge 192,640,000 US$$ at the box office during its first four weeks of business! I found that interesting. The two towers (LRDR2) is trading at 114,21 and Return of the king (LRDR3) at 96,15. Very good for movies that will be released in 2-3 years. Since the release of the last trailer, the movie took about 15$. In comparison, Star Wars: Episode 2 is currently trading at 196,45$ (for hsx traders, this movie is a no risk bet).
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Ringer Spy Miriel sends along a fascinating observation regarding Arwen and Aragorn. Check it out! !Spoilers! [More]
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Ringer Spy Miriel sends along a fascinating observation regarding Arwen and Aragorn. Check it out!
1 shows Arwen wearing the Evenstar at Rivendell. 2 is a closeup of the evenstar. 3 shows Aragorn and Arwen about to kiss from the newest trailer, its from the same scene (same dress anyway) but she is no longer wearing the evenstar. 4 shows a post-rivendell pic of aragorn, notice chain around neck. 5 is a close-up of thing around neck – looks a lot like the same evenstar, especially detail at the bottom that looks like criss-crossing legs. You can also partly see it in the 2nd teaser trailer when the entire fellowship walk across the screen.
So I think Arwen probably gives the Evenstar to Aragorn as a parting gift at Rivendell. What d’ya think??
Click here to see the proof!
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Ringer Spy Justin chimes in with word of a possible FOTR commercial seen on FOX recently. Personally I’m doubtful, since I’ve gotten no other emails about this, but who knows.
At about 7:00 [central time] on the Fox News Channel they had a small advertisement for TFOTR. It was on the fox report with Shepherd Smith and it was about 30 seconds long with a 10 or 15 second clip from the new Trailer.
Ringer Spy Matthew sends along the following:
I know what Ringer Spy Justin is talking about. I saw it too, but it wasn’t a commercial on Fox, it was part of a show called, “Fox Report with Shepherd Smith”. As usual, they hyped the LOTR footage when the show began and then broadcast about 10 seconds worth of trailer #2 an hour later at the very end of the show.
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