KnightFour writes: Check out www.ancestry.com. Apparently this site, the leader in genealogy on the web, appreciates LOTR! LOTR fans can go to the home page and type “Bilbo Baggins” in the main search and see two pedigrees, one of which iincludes a complete and accurate representation of the Hobbit genealogy. Other LOTR families are also represented in their Ancestry Word Tree and can be found be searching on specific names. [More]
Month: June 2002
The San Francisco Chronicle did an article on studies being done to figure out why people cry in the presence of beautiful things like art or music. As a follow-up to that, they asked readers to write in and tell them what things made them cry in that way. There were dozens of replies. Along with Mahler, Strauss and Schubert, Rodin and Shakespeare, the Fellowship of the Ring got two mentions. In both cases the writers said they cried not because of sadness but because of the touching nature of the friendship and loyalty the Fellowship showed. For one writer it’s the moment when Frodo reaches down to pull the drowning Sam out of the river that brings on the tears – as many of us can attest!
In Australia, Land Rover is having a promotion from August 6: If you purchase a Land Rover with a an inbuilt DVD player, you get a bonus Lord of the Rings DVD. Land Rover are also the official car sponsors of the Lord of the Rings movies. This follows on the heels of the partnership announced between Kia and New Line to promote the Kia Sorrento SUV [See here]. Thanks to FrodoFan1.
Given Tolkien’s hatred of cars and what they do to the environment, it’s a mercy he didn’t live to see his work used to promote these. Yrch!
Auntie writes: Last night E! TV ran their weekly show “Rank”. This week’s topic was Hottest Bachelors. You can get the full story here including time when it will be repeated. Cutting to the chase, our Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) made number 17 (Prince William was number 1). On one special poll of ‘bachelors-in-training’ our Elijah Wood (Frodo) was runner up to Hayden Christensen, who, no doubt, had lots of Star Wars fans voting for him.
It seems the ToyBiz Gil galad figure is not the only ToyBiz figure that will (temporarily) disappear according to the people over at the Action Figure Times, read and weep… [More]
Trey Y writes: I found a mention of how great the upcoming 4-disc set is in an article written by a producer of the ‘added value material’ for that edition. [More]