Here’s a link to a story on Sci Fi Wire where Marton Csokas (Celeborn) talks about his new time-travel movie Timeline. [More]
Month: September 2002
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra will perform Howard Shore’s music for LOTR as part of the America’s Cup Regatta celebrations. [More] Thanks to Diane for the news.
Team New Zealand has announced a spectacular line-up of some of New Zealand’s finest talent and top international acts to perform at the heart of the American Express Viaduct Harbour during the America’s Cup Regatta.
The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s performance of the Lord of the Rings Suite, accompanied by images from Lord of the Rings; The Fellowship of the Rings, will begin a series of fifteen open-air concerts in the Amex Viaduct Harbour on December 7th 2002. The concerts form part of Summer Festival 2003 and will run until March 2003.
More than a year ago members of the EN World community began discussing a Dungeons and Dragons 3E conversion of J.R.R. Tolkien¡œs Middle Earth. These discussions led to the creation of many game conversion documents and the hosting of the Middle Earth D20 website by EN World. Now, in the interest of promoting the creation of new and original content for the site, we are proud to announce the Middle Earth D20 Best Original Character Contest.
Please design an original character (villainous or heroic, mundane or epic, PC or NPC) suitable for campaign set in Middle Earth. Provide enough detail about the character (including stats, personality, background, and hooks) so that a DM can incorporate them into their existing campaign. Submit your character in text or html format to MiddleEarthD20@yahoo.com with subject line ¡§MED20 Character Contest¡¨ by October 22nd, 2002.
Entrants are strongly encouraged to use the Dungeons and Dragons core rulebooks (including the Epic Level Handbook). If material is drawn from other sources, please cite the source. Please refrain from using house rules in your submission.
The contest judges are Jeff Black (colonelhardisson@hotmail.com), Derek Poppink (dpoppink@yahoo.com), and Scott Holden-Jones (sholdenj@uwo.ca). They will rate each entry on a scale of one to ten in three categories:
Suitability ¡V Does the character fit in with Middle Earth themes and settings? Creativity ¡V Is the character interesting and well developed? Flexibility ¡V Can the character be used in a variety of storylines with few changes?
The results of the contest will be announced November 12th, and the winner will receive a copy of the Fellowship of the Ring DVD (Platinum Series Extended Edition). All submissions will be archived on the Middle Earth D20
website.
Many thanks to Morrus for hosting the website and putting up the prize. Thanks also to the Spelljammer Mailing List for the inspiration.
The latest poll question to emerge on Empire‘s official site is who do you think is winning the battle of the trailers for the big Winter movies – The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Die Another Day or Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets? Do your best/worst. [More]
Earlier today we reported that the following images were posters..baffled by the oddity of the images we doubted the authenticity…only to find out from up on high that these aren’t posters, they’re popcorn bags! (go on, laugh G, you guys fell for our April fools joke, remember? -Xo) [More]
UPDATE: Ranger of Dunland noticed that “…in the picture of Aragorn, Eowen, and Arwen, Aragorn is holding Narsil! It’s very recognizable by the pommel (the bottom part of the sword).” More confirmation that Aragorn gets Narsil in TTT?
UPDATE 2: Aragorn isn’t holding Narsil. It’s either his ranger sword, or anduril, which i’ve heard he doesn’t get until ROTK, which would make more sense in movie terms, since he didn’t get it to begin with.