Maybe we missed posting this when it happened in February. Lee sends us the link to a mock trial of PJ ‘for desecrating the book’ which was held at Ave Maria College. [More]
Month: April 2002
This weekend Flinch, along with Greenbooks staff members Quickbeam and Ostadan, spent their time playing the Decipher LOTR TCG with a host of Tolkien, and Star Wars fans alike. [More]
This weekend I had the joy and the pleasure of demoing the Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game to two very nice groups of people. My first stop was Hollywood Blvd. and to the LiningUp.net Star Wars: Episode II line. Now this is a group of fans of many things, and Star Wars fans are often known to be Lord of the Rings fans as well so the attempt at bringing them a glimpse at the LOTR TCG couldn’t have gone better.
We sat out along the noise and the light of Hollywood Blvd, small card table mounted with a cardboard sign we set to work organizing the game. I’d brought some boxes of Starter Decks, and some boxes of Booster packs and we cracked into the fun! It was great to see about half of the line participating in the game, either openning packs, reading the rulebook, or trying it out first hand. The night stretched on and around Midnight it was decided that we better head home, we had a big day ahead of us!
Sunday came around and we shuffled into the car and drove to the Aliso Viejo Edwards 20, where we were meeting a group comprized of members of the Irvine Spectrum Line Party. At 2pm Quickbeam [from Green Books] and Ostadan [also from Green Books] arrived and the three of us set out to educate our guests in how to play the game! We sat around some small marble tables with Starter Decks and booster packs in hand and everyone quickly cought on to just how fun this game can be!
Overall it was an amazing weekend and I’m sure everyone in the LA area has plenty of new faces to play with now that everyone knows just what it is you’re supposed to do! Special thanks to everyone that helped us out, Vegan, Remi, Alyse, Josh, Autumn, Valerie and the entire LiningUp.net crew, as well as Decipher and the Aliso Viejo Edwards 20 for giving us somewhere to be on Sunday!
Take a look at the fun! Click here and enjoy images from the events!
Read Quickbeam’s Notes on the event here
Questions? Comments? We love to hear from you! E-mail Flinch at flinch@theonering.net
LOTR:FOTR has nabbed 8 nominations for the 2002 Saturn Awards in June, including Best Director, Best Music, Costumes, Writing, and supporting actor Ian McKellen! [More]
The Saturn Awards are given out each year by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. Awards are presented for film, television, DVD, and special awards. Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone received nine nominations; The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and Brotherhood of the Wolf tied with eight each. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence received seven.
Best Fantasy Film
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Monsters, Inc.
The Mummy Returns
Shrek
Spy Kids
Best Supporting Actor
Robbie Coltrane, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Mark Decascos, Brotherhood of the Wolf
Ian McKellen, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Eddie Murphy, Shrek
Jeremy Piven, Serendipity
Tim Roth, Planet of the Apes
Best Direction
Alejandro Amenabar, The Others
Chris Columbus, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Christophe Gans, Brotherhood of the Wolf
Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
David Lynch, Mulholland Drive
Steven Spielberg, A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Best Writing
Alejandro Amenabar, The Others
Andrew Stanton and Dan Gerson, Monsters, Inc.
Stephane Cabel and Christophe Gans, Brotherhood of the Wolf
Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman and Roger S.H. Schulman, Shrek
Steven Spielberg, A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Best Music
Angelo Badalamenti, Mulholland Drive
Joseph LoDuca, Brotherhood of the Wolf
John Powell and Harry Gregson-Williams, Shrek
Howard Shore, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
John Williams, A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Nancy Wilson, Vanilla Sky
Best Costume
Colleen Atwood, Planet of the Apes
Kym Barrett, From Hell
Dominique Borg, Brotherhood of the Wolf
Ngila Dickson and Richard Taylor, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Judianna Makovsky, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie, Moulin Rouge
Best Makeup
Greg Cannom and Wesley Wofford, Hannibal
Nick Dudman, Mark Coulier and John Lambert, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Peter Owen and Richard Taylor, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Aileen Seaton, Nick Dudman and Jane Walker, The Mummy Returns
Rick Baker and John Blake, Planet of the Apes
Michele Burke and Camille Calvert, Vanilla Sky
Best Special Effects
Dennis Muren, Scott Farrar, Stan Winston and Michael Lantieri, A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Rob Legato, Nick Davis, Roger Guyett and John Richardson, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Jim Mitchell, Dan Taylor, Donald R. Elliott and John Rosengrant, Jurassic Park III
Jim Rygiel, Randall William Cook, Richard Taylor and Mark Stetson, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
John Andrew Berton Jr., Daniel Jeannette, Neil Corbould and Tom Rosseter, The Mummy Returns
Arthur Windus, Val Wardlaw, Hal Bertram, Nick Drew and Seb Caudron, Brotherhood of the Wolf
TORONTO (CP) – The magic makers who created the special effects for Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring will attend the Banff international television festival in June to demonstrate their screen wizardry. The New Zealand-based post-production companies include Weta Workshop, Weta Digital, the Film Unit and Oktober. [More]