Ringer Spy Ed sends along some new pics of a single Orc warrior he found at his local toy store. [More]
Day: April 19, 2002
Cynthia writes: The May 2002 issue of “Premiere” has an article titled “The Power 100” listing Hollywood’s most powerful people. The artwork for the article is all in the style of Middle Earth. There’s a fold-out map of “The Reel World” made to resemble Tolkien’s map of Middle Earth, and various listees are depicted like characters from LOTR. [More]
Miss Took reviews the Warner Brothers piano/vocal arrangement of the LOTR soundtrack music. [More]
Haven’t seen too much info on this one: Warner Bros. has a music book (piano & voice) that has 6 of the FOTR sound-track songs: Aniron, The Prophecy, Many Meetings, Lament for Gandalf, In Dreams, and May It Be. It’s nicely balanced, as far as skill level goes – it’s neither woefully over-simplified nor hopelessly difficult. (I’m best described as a struggling pianist, so I can’t play them right off but I know I’ll be able to with some practice.) “Aniron” has quite a few flats, but “Many Meetings” has almost none. Overall I’d rank them as tricky but not impossible
The book has some nice full-page color photos – Frodo w/ Sting, Gandalf w/ lighted staff, prow of Elven swan-boat against sunrise, 2-page spread of ringwraiths, hobbits on weathertop, Saruman glaring down from top of Orthanc, and a nasty orc on the last page.
Hopefully a more skilled musician will step to the fore with a more detailed review soon. Until then I’ll just add that I highly recommend this – if you can find it any where!
Thanks to Miss Took for that!
News from somebody who had the good luck to be on the Veronica Guerin film set with Cate [Galadriel] in Dublin. [More]
This came in from an anonymous Ringer:
“Hey there,just thought i’d mail you about my life this past week. I’ve gotten a ton of extra work on the Veronica Guerin movie being filmed here in Dublin, and yesterday, i had the pleasure of having Cate [Blanchett] stand behind me all day!
We were warned not to speak to her before filming, as it was a pub scene and there were a ton of extras there. We had to stand in front of her, shouting(miming) at a soccer match on t.v. while she talked to a crime boss behind us at the bar. it was really very weird, but cool too.
She seems to have an air of unapproachable surrounding her, but then, that mighta been in my head – I think it was, cos for me, she played Galadriel so well(& with an air so sinister, it would put anyone off) but it didn’t stop me asking her assistant to get her to sign my copy of FOTR, which she kindly did.