If you were blown away by TTT then Moriarty is your champion. [More]
Month: December 2002
Emedhilwin writes: Those who have MSN can chat with Sean Astin tonight at 7:30 Mountain Time. [More]
Don’t forget to come on down to the Silent Movie theater on Fairfax this Saturday [Dec 21st] for a day of Middle-earth Gaming brought to you by the folks at Black Label Games. Join the Gaming Havens crew and all the Tolkien Gamers for a day filled with news and artwork from the new book based titles from Black Label Games. Also, fans from the official TORn Line Party at the VISTA will receive a limited edition Faramir card just for showing up. Best of all, it’s totally Free! [More]
Ankh writes: The opening of “the Two Towers” just set a new record in Denmark on the night of the 18th. With 80.000 tickets sold and a gross of 6.2 million Danish kroners it is the biggest opening ever. The first movie was seen by more than 1.3 million and it looks as if teh sequel is goring to just as well!
From lewrockwell.com: An article by John Yatt from the Guardian of December 2, 2002 attacks Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings with amazing hostility. He not only dismisses the book as “a fake, a forgery, a dodgy copy” but he also attacks it as harmful, “The Lord of the Rings is racist.” He ends with this judgement, “Strip away the archaic turns of phrase and you find a set of basic assumptions that are frankly unacceptable in 21st-century Britain.” [More]
Shelagh sends along some other TTT nominations, including Gollum and other TTT things at Critic’s Choice Awards. [More]
And the Critic’s Circle nomination for Peter Jackson as Best Director. [More]