Be sure to catch the 29th annual People’s Choice Awards tonight on CBS at 9PM EST. FOTR is nominated for Favorite Motion Picture & Favorite Dramatic Motion Picture. Due to FOTR being released in mid December 2001, it is only eligible for winning this year, even with TTT out. Catch that tonight! [PCA’s]
Month: January 2003
IGN talks to Richard Taylor about that Legolas mounting shot from the TTT warg battle sequence, take a look! [More]
Green Book writer Turgon writes: Translator Henry Wickens has informed me that his translation of The Hobbit into Luxembourgish (“Lëtzebuergesch”–the language used in Luxembourg), “Den Hobbit,” was launched on 13 December 2002, and is now available from the publisher, Editions Op der Lay, Esch-sur-Sûre, Luxembourg for 19.90 euros. The publisher’s website is at webplaza.pt.lu with a Hobbit page. See also the translator’s website at den-hobbit.com
Christi writes: We will be playing “Symphonic Suite from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” at our concert in American Fork, Utah, on Feb. 24. [More]
File this one away in the hopefull-rumor department; Jen writes: Yesterday an exec at AMC theaters said that the posters for The Return of the King would be arriving in March!!
Jatamansi discovered this brief, but interesting editorial about the political reasons Tolkien might not survive as an academic at today’s universities. It also briefly mentions the influence his writings have had on medieval studies. [More]