Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) is being named as one of the replacements for Russell Crowe in the western re-telling of ‘The Alamo’. Reuters has the full story on who replaced whom and why the evian water isn’t the exact perfect temperature for Crowe anymore. [More]
Month: October 2002
Katie writes: Those of you who are British fans may have heard Radio 4’s special program on the Hobbit this morning. I only caught the end of it, but it had some clips of Tolkien speaking in elvish, interviews with his close friends, and reviews of the book, and how it became so popular.
Max Crowe writes: Thought you guys might be interested to know that Sean Bean (Boromir) is on the cover of the October issue of Theatregoer Magazine (UK). Press is starting to heat up for his Macbeth run in London. [More]
More information on the John Howe exhibits touring France from now until December (Read Live in France? Wanna Meet John Howe? article from yesterday). Take a look at the exhibit poster for the event, beautiful art from the flooding of Isengard! [More]
John Rhys-Davies says he’s had nightmares about providing the voice of Treebeard in the new Lord Of The Rings film. He says when director Peter Jackson first asked him to provide the voice of the Ent he thought “Oh good, more money!”. Then his nightmares began, he told SciFi.com. “How the hell do you make a walking and talking tree work? What does a tree sound like?” [More]
Douglas Anderson, writer of the recently released ‘The Annotated the Hobbit’, will be in Ann Arbor, Michigan this saturday doing a slide show on ‘Illustrating and Annoted The Hobbit’. The event will take place in the Shaman Drum Bookstore so be sure to check it out when you are in the neighbourhood! [More]