Noel Gollum was portrayed on the Saturday Night Live halftime show (played by Chris Kattan -Xo). He wanted one of those rings they give the winners, and then debated a la Gollum and Smeagol over who he wanted to win.
Month: January 2003
Naomi writes: On the ABC pre-game show they played clips from The Two Towers inter-twined with players from the Oakland Raiders referring to “The Ring” which they so craved. It had a very “Lord of the Rings” theme to it, great stuff!
Karl writes: My family and I attended the showing of TTT with Andy Serkis at the Arclight last night. Andy was great. He did a lengthy Q&A after the screening, and stayed to sign photos, for hours afterwards. !!Spoilers!! [More]
Tolkien’s working life seems to be generating almost as much interest as his books. Just about any day, Oxford’s Eagle and Child pub is likely to be frequented by some of the more eccentric residents of – and visitors to – the ancient university town. [More]
Iva writes: TTT is breaking box office records in Croatia. In the first weekend of the showing (it started on 16th January), the movie had taken the first place removing Titanic from #1. More than 61 620 viewers went to see TTT in the first weekend, in the first weekend Titanic had around 53 741 viewers. The number of viewers is increasing and its impossible to get any tickets even 5 days in advance.
Sandra sends along more information she learned from myplanet.com regarding the two Air New Zealand planes dolled up with LOTR images on them: The picture weighs more than 60 kilograms and that it is made out of 300 separate pieces. Also interesting enough they are making a new version, which will feature pictures from Return of the King.