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Month: December 2001

From Ghost of Deagol:

Just writing to inform you that Christopher Lee (together with his Danish wife through 30 years, Giee Krönke) and Viggo Mortensen will attend the FotR premiere the 18th of Dec. in Denmark.

An addition to the two FotR stars, representatives from the Danish royal family will attend: Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik. The royal family has decided to show up since the gala event is also a fund raiser for The Red Cross. The ticket price is 500 DKr, so for once the celebrities must grab their pockets.

Queen Margrethe is actually a great Tolkien-admirerer, and has illustrated the special edition of The Lord of the Rings back in the 70s, when she as a princess still attended university in England.

The special edition was published in 1997 with illustrations by Ingahild Grathmer, the queen’s pseudonym at that time. This edition has just been republished.

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Tomorrow, the Sunday Times once again provides its readers with some Lord of the Rings goodies, this time in the shape of a double-sided poster of both Gandalf and Frodo.

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ActionMask writes: The Fellowship of the Ring will be shown in Hong Kong in Febuary 2002 (oh no!). And this is a local webpage that provides some information about the movie. [More]

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Michael writes: One of my non-Tolkien friends alerted me to an article about Ian McKellen in this month’s printed issue of The Advocate. An excerpted version of the article is available online here. And there’s a tongue-in-cheek and humorous “Gay guide to Middle-earth” here.

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Asarina writes in to tell us that Minnesota Ringers can catch an advanced screening of the feature film one week before it’s release. [More]

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From Asarina:

Minnesota “Lord of the Rings” fans can catch an advance screening of the feature film one week before its Dec. 19 official release date.

The film will be shown at 7 pm Wednesday, Dec. 12, at the Historic State Theater in downtown Minneapolis. The advance screening is a fund-raiser event for Carleton College in Northfield. The film’s executive producer Barrie Osborne graduated from Carleton in 1966.

Tickets are available at two levels: a $50 ticket includes the 7 pm screening and a post-screening social hour at Backstage at Bravo in Minneapolis; a $200 ticket includes those events plus a pre-reception with Osborne at The Palomino restaurant.

Tickets can be purchased by calling the Carleton College Office of Alumni Affairs at 1-800-729-2586.

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