Lindulan writes: For the week ending 12/23, LOTR sold 83,608 copies, putting it at #2 for soundtracks and jumping up to #64 from #97 on the album chart. So far about 185,000 copies have been sold, and I would expect to see it certified gold next week.
Day: December 28, 2001
Peter Jackson, Sean Astin, John Rhys-Davies, Lucy Lawless (what? -Xo) and more stars of “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” hit the red carpet for the L.A. premiere. [More]
David sends in ‘Heart Of The City’. [More]
Matt sends in ‘Close To Home’. [More]
Tim writes: BBC Radio 4 will be transmitting the classic radio adaptation, all 13 hours of it, from Saturday 5th January. Also on the 5th will be “The Archive Hour–Fired by the Rings”,an hour long documentary by Sibley featuring input from PJ. [More]
Davey and Barbarshop send along these funny LOTR refrences on Conan O’Brien [More]
Davey Bar writes:
I was watching Conan O’Brien and they had Kevin Pollock on and he asked Conan
“So did u see the LOTR movie? It was great. I didnt know what to expect. Because a couple years ago I saw Lord of the Dance and that just sucked”
Conan: “As we all know Lord of the Dance is the prequel to LOTR”
Pollock:”I also didnt know how to react to the crowd[in the theatre] I thought I must have left my Dungeons & Dragons cards at home. I heard ‘I’ll trade you 3 wizards for 2 hobbits and some other card I will throw in later'”
From: Barbarshop
Last night on Conan O’Brien on NBC In a segment called “Conan on the Aisle” Conan did a little spoof on FOTR. He said that he liked the movie but thought that director Peter Jackson could have done a better job portraying the evil of the ring. “It just didn’t seem scarry to me…” He showed the clip where Gandalf throws the ring in the fire. The clip runs normally until you see Frodo holding the ring. At the moment when the Mordor script is supposed to appear Conan inserted “Inspected by 15.” It was a pretty funny gag.