An update from Borders Bookshops in the UK. [More]
Month: July 2001
It seems a little late to be posting casting news, (someone please send me a complete cast list!!!) but here we go, Kiwi Peter McKenzie will play Elendil. [More]
It seems a little late to be posting casting news, (someone please send me a complete cast list!!!) but here we go, Kiwi Peter McKenzie will play Elendil.
Elendil, the Dunedain king of Arnor and Gondor, he was, along with Gil-Galad (Mark Ferguson) responsible for the downfall of Sauron during the Last Alliance, but was eventually killed.
As for McKenzie, he is a horse trainer, lawyer, and aspiring actor. Look for a pic from us soon. Thanks to Calindy
McKenzie has Lead Role at Ipswich
by Tony Meaney
Actor, lawyer, businessman, horse trainer. Take your pick and Jaybejay’s New Zealand trainer Peter McKenzie fits the category. McKenzie arrived yesterday from New Zealand with Jaybejay and reported the horse had travelled much better than he did.
“I am a bit of a mess because after flying fron Auckland we stayed for a few hours in Graeme Rogerson’s Sydney stable before catching the morning mail plane to Brisbane,” McKenzie said.
Jaybejay will run in Saturday’s $175,000 Group Three Ipswich Cup with apprentice Anthony Merritt on board. McKenzie returns to New Zealand after the race for filming on director Peter Jackson’s eagerly awaited Lord Of The Rings.
“I play King Elendil in the film but it has been a lot of fun. Horse training is a lot harder,” he said. McKenzie gained the role after a lot of theatre work in New Zealand and enjoys acting.
Most of Lord Of The Rings has been shot but McKenzie said the appalling weather conditions in New ZEaland before he “died” made it necessary to delay and re-shoot some scenes.
As a lawyer McKenzie did trial work in New Zealand but these days concentrates on running a deer velvet company. He runs a 1500-strong deer herd on his Otaki property along with a 20-strong broodmare band that support stallion His Royal Highness. The business has the potential to become huge because Asian buyers regard deer velvet as an aphrodisiac.
“It is a misconception that we kill the deer for the horn. Each year we clip the horn and NZ has a 500-tonne export quota to Korea and China,” McKenzie said.
His Royal Highness is well known in Queensland through the efforts of the Kay Lane trained Figurehead and Figurante. Jaybejay is a third generation product of McKenzie’s personal breeding plan and the five year old gelding has been a late maturer.
“I never bothered offering him for sale as a young horse because he was always going to be a late maturer,” he said.
After having three fantastic sessions from our topic last week, we return to our chapter by chapter discussions of the Fellowship of the Ring. This week, we cover one of the most tense moments of the Fellowships journey before Rivendell.
Chapter XI: A Knife in the Dark
A fantastic chapter, the highlight of this section is obviously the confrontation between the Fellowship and the Ringwraiths at Weathertop. But there is so much more to this chapter than just this!
For the first time in the books we see Strider take a leadership roll as the group departs from the Prancing Pony inn. We also see a more humane part of Sam as he takes the ill treated Bill the Pony from it’s cruel master in Bree.
This scene is also one of the most documented from the upcoming film, creating a set of images that have most Tolkien fans faith in not only Peter Jackson as the film’s director, but in Viggo Mortensen as the character of Strider himself.
And of course, this scene is the first time Frodo falls foul to the temptations of the ring, and through his actions see the Nazgúl for the fallen kings they once were.
No matter what you know are and what you’ve read, this is bound to be a fantastic discussion, and anyone and everything is invited to one of our three scheduled hosted sessions!
Place: #thehalloffire on theonering.net server; come to theonering.net’s chat room Barliman’s and then type /join #thehalloffire .
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From: Tony N
Hi,
Just a little article from the Daily Express in the UK, July 3. I hadn’t heard the thing about the sales of Tolkien books before. [More]
RINGS MAGIC STRIKES AGAIN
The film won’t be out for six months but canny Internet marketing and a lift gained from the Harry Potter frenzy have made JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy best-sellers all over again.
When a 90-second trailer for the first of three films called Fellowship of the Ring and due out in December – was shown on the web it was downloaded 350 million times in three months. And in the past year, fuelled by demand for ‘anything like Potter’, 1.7 million Tolkien books have been sold here.
“It’s a nice thing for a book that’s 50 years old,” says the happy markeing director of publisher Houghton Mifflin.