Ringer Spy Sirelle sends along this article from The Providence Journal take a look at this interview with Elijah Wood (Frodo) and Ian McKellen (Gandalf). [More]
Day: December 28, 2001
Ten days on, and the world has already seen and accepted Peter Jackson’s Fellowship of the Ring and looks hungrily towards this time next year for the Two Towers. As quickly as fans left the cinemas and hit the Net to reveal their thoughts, cries of ‘Director’s Cut DVD’ and ‘364 days to go’ erupted as the Fellowship of the Ring drove Tolkien fan’s desire to see the complete Trilogy to new heights. [More]
Ten days on, and the world has already seen and accepted Peter Jackson’s Fellowship of the Ring and looks hungrily towards this time next year for the Two Towers. As quickly as fans left the cinemas and hit the Net to reveal their thoughts, cries of ‘Director’s Cut DVD’ and ‘364 days to go’ erupted as the Fellowship of the Ring drove Tolkien fan’s desire to see the complete Trilogy to new heights.
Such is the important of an event like the release of Fellowship of the Ring in the Tolkien fan world (it is one of the things we have been building the last three years of our news site around!), the Hall of Fire staff once again opens its door to a discussion on the Fellowship of the Ring. Not only is it a chance for people who missed it the first time around to share their views, but we can also cover a lot of new ground that we missed the first time around.
For instance, we’ve talked plenty about what went into the film, but have we talked enough about what didn’t make the film? A sing along in the Green Dragon Inn, the journey from Bree to Weathertop through the Midget Marshes, the chasing of the Fellowship from Moria to Lothlórien…there’s a lot of stuff there that may not see the light of day because of the time constraints.
And what about your hopes for the future. After seeing Fellowship of the Ring, are you now optimistic or pessemistic for the Two Towers and the Return of the King? Does the film make you want to rush out to the stores and buy up their stock of Toy Biz figures, buy up Howard Shore’s soundtrack? Or for the next few months will you bury your head in the sand and revert back to the literature itself, cursing Peter Jackson’s very wingy balrog and his ghostly Galadriel.
Whatever it is, if it’s got to do with Fellowship of the Ring then we want to discuss it this weekend while we still have a chance. Because in just a few days time, 2001 will be gone and in comes 2002 and with it Peter Jackson’s The Two Towers!
Place:
#thehalloffire on theonering.net server; come to theonering.net’s chat room Barliman’s and then type /join #thehalloffire .
Saturday Chat: 7:00 pm ET (19:00) [also 12:00 am Sunday (01:00) CET and 10:00 am Sunday (10:00) AET]
Sunday Chat: 5:00 pm (17:00) AET [also 07:00 am (08:00) CET and 2:00 am (02:00) ET]
Sunday Chat: 7:00 pm (19:00) CET [also 1:00 pm (13:00) ET and 4:00 am (04:00) Monday morning AET]
ET = Eastern Time, USA’s East Coast
CET = Central European Time, Central Europe
AET = Australian Eastern Time, Australia’s East Coast
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Darth Sushi writes: In today’s Washington Post, movie critics listed LOTR in their Top 10 movies of 2001. Desson Howe in the Weekend section listed LOTR at #5, Rita Kempley (a Tolkien reader herself) put it at #3 and Stephen Hunter (who is not a Tolkien fan but is a successful novelist in his own right) put it at #2. [More]
A Tolkien fan has revealed to Ananova how he became the official Elvish expert for the Lord Of The Rings film trilogy. David Salo first began reading the books as a young boy. He got involved with the movies after writing to director Peter Jackson. [More]
“Mellon lay, Chicago,” says Liv Tyler. Yes, Glare asked her to speak to us in elfish from “Lord of the Rings.” Translation: “I really love you and your city,” she says. [More]