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!
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News from somebody who had the good luck to be on the Veronica Guerin film set with Cate [Galadriel] in Dublin. [More]
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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.
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CG wrote in to remind NY Ringers that Viggo Mortensen is going to be signing copies of his book, “Signlanguage” at the International Center of Photography in New York City on Friday, that’s today, from 6-8pm. The Center is located on 6th Avenue between 43rd and 44th Street.”
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Revelin writes: I just thought I’d let you know that my favorite online DVD seller is now listing Fellowship of the Ring for pre-order. It is the least expensive price for the DVD that I have seen yet and they always have free shipping. However, they only carry region 1 DVD’s, but that still covers a lot of territory. TORN visitors may be interested in this. [More]
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This came in thanks to Jade:
“Hey!! I’m just writing to let you know that I have been searching, and searching, and searching the web for the spawn, or progeny of Japan’s reactions to LOTR, the movie.. AND GUESS WHAT?? I found it!! And yeah I’m specifically referring to Fan Art.. MY GOD!! THe most beautiful ART EVER!! It makes mine look GENERIC!! Here are the links I’ve found.. I wanna share em with you guys cause I know you dedicate yourselves to reporting on everything for the fans, and by the fans.. Well, this is just to let you know how Japan is also a BIG FAN of Tolkien’s LOTR… Check em out when you’ve got times, yeah?.. They’re extremely beautiful.. I recommend each and every single one.. One comment.. I have noticed in Japan they really like the humans Aragorn, and Boromir, and they absolutely love the hobbits..Specially Frodo..As opposed to Legolas here in the states… They like Legolas but not so much.. COOL.. I just think it’s amazing..”
Here’s the links….I can’t tell you what the sites are called half the time.
Click on anything on this page from The Nine Fingers and you’ll get some wonderful artwork even if the text shows up gibberish on your screen. Dozens of pics here.
This one’s apparently called FDDS, and if you click on the picture squares on the left of this page the artwork shows up on the right.
This one’s called HunkPunk Laboratory and you can take a stab at anything and hope that it’ll go in the right direction – the one marked ‘LOTR’ looks promising. Check out ‘Illust’ on that page.
There’s a list of links to other Japanese LOTR site here and here
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