New Line International’s The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers scored the biggest bow of all time in Italy over the weekend as it opened on a staggering $9.4m. The second instalment of Peter Jackson’s J R R Tolkien adaptation averaged $11,773 from 800 screens after opening on Jan 17, a Friday. The amount is roughly 19% higher than the opening weekend for The Fellowship Of The Ring. [More]
Day: January 22, 2003
“This tale grew in the telling.” When John Ronald Reuel Tolkien began his foreword to The Lord of the Rings with that phrase, he meant, naturally, the thousand pages of his masterwork. And even at that length LOTR could barely contain the author’s intricately detailed Middle Earth — replete with the complicated histories of hobbits, elves, orcs, dwarfs, ents and men. [More]
Or should I say ‘geekier‘?, take a look at D&D…LOTR style. [More]
Fantasy fans taste elfin cuisine at Bartonville lecture. Linda Lowery says she knows J.R.R. Tolkien. Not just the author’s life, but his “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy of books, the movies adapted from them and the characters described in each. [More]
The NZ Dominion Post has an article detailing the purchase of a cinema complex in Miramar, NZ. Peter Jackson, Richard Taylor and Jamie Selkirk bought the place recently, click for more details. [More]
Bonnie sends in this picture from the February issue of Roadshow Magazine from Japan, it shows Orlando Bloom (Legolas), Bruce Hopkins (Gamling), Bernard Hill (Theoden), Karl Urban (Eomer) and Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) on horseback. Take a look! [More]