The epic “Lord of the Rings” film was launched at a glitzy world premiere Monday with critics already hailing the mammoth fantasy as a masterpiece. [More]
Thanks to FrodoGirl and Losloriel for the link!
Month: December 2001
LC sent word of this news story in the Deseret News about one of our Salt Lake line parties, and the things they have planned the next couple weeks! [More]
Give the more obscure Shire characters a look in todays Decipher card image update. [More]
The Lord Of The Rings™ TCG Help Clinic
Part 1 – Movement: In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rings, the path taken by Frodo, Sam ,and their companions was a long one. By some accounts, the Fellowship traveled upwards of a thousand miles. [More]
Deck Design: Ten Questions for the Metagame: You can build a Lord of the Rings TCG deck as just a bunch of good fellowship and Shadow cards, but often find the deck lacking. Just because your deck is full of good cards doesn’t mean you have a good deck. [More]
Don’t forget to check out the Gaming Havens Holiday Contest to win some amazing prizes from Decipher.
Ted has been kind enough to send in this article which appeared in The Australian newspaper. [More]
Power Of The Ring Lords It Over Harry
by Sophie Tedmanson (Entertainment reporter)
HARRY Potter has cast a spell on modern children, but their parents are about to be swept away by the fantasy chronicle of their own youth, The Lord of the Rings.
The $300 million movie version of the JRR Tolkien classic is about to become the Star Wars of the new millennium and could usurp Harry at the box office.
The first film adapted from the trilogy, subtitled The Fellowship of the Ring and featuring the pointy-eared Hobbits, will be released on Boxing Day.
The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson said Harry Potter had whetted the public’s appetite for fantasy films and Empire film magazine editor Chris Murray said the two films sat side by side.
Murray says the Rings trilogy will attract an older audience of different generations because of the longevity of the original novels, first published in the 1950s.
‘LOTR fans are extremely passionate and there’s probably three generations of people that read it waiting for the movie to come out, as opposed to Harry Potter, which is pretty much mothers and 12-year olds,’ he said.
Adelaide sci-fi writer Sean Williams, who has read the Harry Potter novels and The Lord of the Rings and seen the Star Wars series, said the trickle release of the trilogy films over the next three Christmas periods would give it a longer lifespan.
‘LOTR is a cultural icon that has the staying power Harry Potter may not have,’ Williams said. ‘There are generations of people who have been reading this trilogy, so there’s a lot of anticipation from people of all different ages.’
The main Tolkien website – TheOneRing.net – receives more than 200,000 hits a day and the local merchandise, including T-shirts, book coverings, puzzles, stationery and toys, has been available in shops for months. Some lines have already sold out.
Funtastic managing director David Hendy, who oversees the production of $30million LOTR toy merchandise in Australia, said it had been hugely popular in the lead-up to Christmas.
‘There’s a big culture-base with The Lord of the Rings, and most of the fantasy directors got their inspiration from Tolkien, so it’s really showing the strength of the brand,’ he said.
For all Danish Ringers out there (and indeed any others interested), Spirit gave me a link in Barlimans to stuff from Cannes done for Danish television. [More]