DarkHorizons writes: Pirates of the Carribean : Its official – the project has undergone a name change to “Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl”. Reasoning? To help distinguish between the ride and movie.
Day: February 20, 2003
In November 1918, J.R.R. Tolkien was 27 and had just returned to Oxford from active service in the First World War. He had landed a job as an assistant lexicographer at the Oxford English Dictionary and needed rooms nearby to rent for himself, his wife and his baby son. Number 50 St John Street, a few minutes’ walk from his old college, Exeter, fitted the bill. [More]
Cuivienor writes: Cine Live – a French magazine – has (already) The Return of the King on its cover (actually the picture of Aragorn on his warhorse we saw from the calender). To be truly honest, nothing knew, from what I read (didn’t have any money so didn’t buy), they just printed super-quality the calendar pics (Gollum, Frodo&Sam, Arwen, Frodo holding the Phial) and added a bit of text to add flavor to the whole. [More]
Two Towers is just about to open in Japan. And, apparently, the good news is that the Japanese subtitling is much improved on FoTR. The Daily Yomiuri ramps up the hype and discusses the main attractions. [More] [More]
LadyE writes: There will be a LOTR festival happening on February 21, 22, & 23 in Gig Harbor, WA. Brad Dourif (Wormtongue) will be there on Saturday and Sunday. The Rivendell Singers (Celtic music) will be performing, there will be acostume contest and ball, storytelling, fantasy art shows/auctions, elvish workshops, among TONS of other cool stuff. [More]
May sends in these scans from Max magazine, sadly we could NOT post the cover (you think Maxim covers in the US are racy, the picture was NOT of Viggo BTW…)…my goodness! But take a look at all the Viggo goodness. [More]