DarkHorizons (via Latino Review) has posted a new image of our Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) in the Disney flick Hidalgo. [More]
Month: January 2003
As countless women are no doubt aware, today is Orlando Bloom (Legolas) Birthday. Orlando was born on January 13th, 1977 in Canterbury, Kent, UK. That makes him 26 today! Happy Birthday!
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The season’s two biggest franchises have more in common than bazillions in ticket sales: Wizards, elves, trolls, and animated trees crop up in ”The Lord of the Rings” and the two ”Harry Potter” movies. ”Rings” director Peter Jackson moved a jumbo spider — not unlike the one in ”The Chamber of Secrets” — from ”The Two Towers,” the second in J.R.R. Tolkien’s series, to next Christmas’ ”Return of the King.” [More]
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Most people don’t need a map to know that Middle-earth isn’t anywhere near Iraq. Or North Korea for that matter. But “Lord of the Rings” star Viggo Mortensen felt the need to remind people of that salient geographical fact a few weeks back when he appeared on “The Charlie Rose Show” in a homemade T-shirt that read “No More Blood for Oil.” Apparently, Mortensen was mortified at hearing people projecting simplistic, post-Sept. 11 analogies onto J.R.R. Tolkien’s mythical universe of hobbits, orcs and hirsute sorcerers. [More]
Once upon a time, if you liked a movie and wanted a piece of the action to take home with you, you went to McDonald’s and got a plastic figurine in your $3 Happy Meal. Not anymore. Instead, how about a $500 glass hobbit jar actually used on the set of “The Lord of the Rings” film trilogy? [More]