Two irritating stories turned up recently, so if you’re looking for something to dispel that pre-TTT euphoria, read on. Australia’s TripleJ website’s film reviewer hated FOTR and voted it the second-worst movie of the year. [More] Meanwhile the Guardian stirs up the old controversy about whether Tolkien was racist [More]
Our own Quickbeam wrote an excellent defence of Tolkien on this subject a while back, in his Out on a Limb column [More]
Day: December 3, 2002
Ok, we knew it was gonna happen sooner or later, but it is still wickedly cool! [More]
Baralier sent a link which may shed more light on whether somebody was monkeying around with the Dwarven runes in the Chamber of Mazarbul. [More] This relates to a story that started here
New Zealand Post is offering a special Lord Of The Rings date stamp this month. [More]
Merchedes writes: Entertainment Weekly has released it’s top ten video game releases of 2002. Clocking in at Number 5 is The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers! According to the reviewer, it’s “hotter than the fires of Mount Doom.” [More]
Tom writes: The Travel Channel is airing a show called New Zealand: The Royal Tour on December 15 at 9:00 pm est. The prime minister will be giving a tour of the country, and the advertisement I saw claimed Karl Urban would also be on the show. They also showed scenes form the movie TTT.