Maybe we should call it “Lord of the Ka-chings!” Another weekend, another win means America’s hobbit habit is still going strong. [More]
Month: January 2002
Elijah Wood, star of Lord Of The Rings, won a chicken-wing-eating contest and pulled down his trousers twice to show the audience his “secret tattoo” at the Lampoon’s “Best Actor of All Time” award ceremony yesterday afternoon. [More]
Amazing news from CNN via David: “A friend of mine was watching CNN today. They reported that the DVD version of Fellowship was going to be 4.5 hours long.”
Is THAT long enough for you all? And when does it come out?
According to this there’s a book being released on Amazon in May which is ” Published to tie-in with the launch of the video and DVD, this is the first of three books” [read the synopsis, you’ll see it.]
So look for the DVD in May, 2002. Thanks to Corsair of Umbar who noticed that.
Now, this is a rumour from Kevin, who notes a different time for the DVD release [July] but concludes that Bombadil’s scenes were filmed: “I just figured that I’d let you know that I recently got a chance to look at the 2002 release sheet for the LOTR Games workshop games. Now, Games Workshop has a 3-5 (not sure) contract with New Line which says that the only models they may produce in that time are models from the films. This release sheet showed that in July, around the time of the DvD release models WILL be released for Tom Bombadil, Goldberry, and the barrow wights. This means that it is a definite that the old forest sequence, in its entirety, was filmed, and that we will see Bombadil in the film.”
Well, it’s been a well-kept secret in the NZ film community if it has, but we’ll keep an open mind on that!
Svein writes to say “over 580 000 people have seen the LOTR: FOTR in Norway since Dec 19, and thats a lot! Since there is “only” 4.6 million people in Norway. But it aint over yet!”
Which makes me wonder: Which country is the most Tolkienoholic? Who has the highest percentage of their population going to see FOTR? Will it be NZ? The States? England?
Louis Menand, who read first LOTR in 1963, sees the film and compares his mind’s eye with the imagination of a teenager today. [More Thanks to Cassandra for the link.
Golden Fox is a tour company based in Arrowtown that usually does goldpanning and historical tours. Now they have something for the LOTR fan – a one-day tour of LOTR film sites like the Fords of Bruinen. [More]