The often over-shadowed Hugo Weaving (Elrond) gets a well deserved magazine article dedicated to him, take a look at this scan sent in by Helen [More]
Month: January 2003
Greg writes: There will be two lectures on Tolkien, Spirituality and his Philosophy. They’re taking place at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario on Feb 4th at 3pm and 7pm. [More]
Arod writes: Sends along these amazing photos from his NZ trip last December, he was lucky enough to visit the locations used for Hobbiton, Rivendell, Anduin and more! [More]
Ellen writes: One does not normally expect to hear the words “Frodo’s friend Sam” out of the mouth of White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, but that’s exactly what I heard this afternoon when I had the White House press briefing playing in the background on the TV. Seems Sean Astin has been named to serve on the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation. [More]
Christopher writes: The January issue of Post has a 2 page interview with Richard Taylor. Not much new here but there is one interesting quote regarding the Uruk-Hai. [More]
Christopher writes: The January issue of Post has a 2 page interview with Richard Taylor. Not much new here but there is one interesting quote regarding the Uruk-Hai-
“They’re just built to kill and they never retreat; hence they had no armor on their backs since Saruman never imagined they’d turn and flee. But, like so many genetic frailties of our own time, as we follow the Uruk-Hai through film three, we’ll appreciate that, as Ridley Scott called it so beautifully, they have “accelerated decrepitude.” They begin to break down quickly and Saruman hasn’t actually quite got his alchemy right. We wanted to build an analogy to the frailties of playing with sciencde in our own world.”
I don’t recall this from the books but it is an interesting addition. That may also explain the peculiar look of the Uruk shot in the ROTK calender. I just assumed the Uruks were finished and we wouldn’t see them much in ROTK. I was puzzled by the shot from the calender. Looks like there is more story for Saruman and the Uruks to come…