John sent in a scan from the New Zealand Herald’s ‘e.g.’ TV guide about a visit to Barlimans on Oscar Night. Fiona Rae, the author, seems to have spent the evening with us and writes about the wonderful frenzy beheld during our Academy Awards coverage in #AwardsParty. [More]
Month: April 2002
After only a couple of weeks the folks at DorkTower.com are already using the words ‘The Two Towers’ and ‘Academy Award’ in the same sentence. However, don’t start counting the days until Academy Awards 2003 just yet. [More]
Greg writes: The Rohirrim are modeled after the Anglo-Saxon peoples of Briton, before the Norman Conquest. Look to references for their culture & etc. Their art & ornamentation have strong celtic influences.
Sammie writes: The FIDM costume exhibit in LA which includes the LOTR costumes has a little visual joke. (I’m assuming it’s a joke). The mannequin wearing Isildur’s armor is also wearing Gandalf’s silver scarf just under its surcoat. Look for it. The LOTR costumes by the way are much more like historical clothing than costumes. The difference in detailing and manufacture makes the rest of the exhibit look unbelievably tacky.
Jedi Loomis writes: Just wanted to let you know that a buddy of mine works for a hotel chain, and he said that LOTR will be availabe in the next couple of weeks on some pay-per-view hotel/motel networks. Just to prove it, he gave me a dubbed copy of LOTR on VHS, taped from a pay-per-view channel that his hotel will be showing later this month!
Here’s something new. A website called The Art of the Rings looks at some of the images in FOTR and interprets them in the light of mythic symbolism and art criticism. You may not agree with the conclusions on the page, but there is a lot to think about on this beautifully-presented page. [More]