Ringer Fan Lolly writes: Some Greater Union Cinemas in Australia will be screening Fellowship of the Ring and Two Towers during May as a double feature. Unfortunately, not one of the participating cinemas are anywhere me (typical!), but I thought I’d share the news anyway. [More]
Month: April 2003
Black Label Games has just announced their latest video game: ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Treason of Isengard.’ The Gaming Havens staff are getting details right now, and will be post on it soon! Check Gaming Havens for regular updates on this and other Tolkien related games. [Gaming Havens]
Ian McKellen is set to turn from a sir to a dame for his latest stage role – as Widow Twanky in Aladdin. The Lord of the Rings star has always harboured an ambition to play a pantomime dame. [More]
IGN.com is asking ‘Which one is your favorite movie out of this batch..’ and among the options are The Two Towers, SW Ep II, The Matrix and others. Right now, the original Matrix is winning. If you can stand the excessively annoying adverts on IGN (Gotta love those full screen forced ads, pop-ups, pop-unders, pop-ins, pop-i’m-going-to-go-insane), go over and cast your vote! [More]
Arwenelf sends along these scans from the June 2003 issue of Total Magazine with Hugo Weaving (Elrond) on the cover and a small section about ‘The Return of the King’. [More]
HavensSpy Christian writes in with good news from this month’s Nintendo Power magazine:
I thought you might like some LotR news from the video gaming world. I am a subscriber to Nintendo Power and in this month’s issue (released to the general public in about a week or two) the Nintendo Power Awards were announced. Different categories with preselected games were voted on by readers via mail-in card and online response. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers for GameCube and GameBoy Advance were able to take a few
awards and were runners-up:Best Cut Scenes: GameCube
Best Music Based on a Preexisting Source: GameCube
Best Voice Talent: GameCube
Best New Character: Aragorn – GameCube
and my favortie…
Best Use of a License: GameCubeTTT beat out the Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets
AND Spider-Man games in this category (and all
others).TTT also recieved the first and second runner-up for
the following categories:
Best Graphics – GameCube: 1st Runner-Up
Best Graphics – GameBoy Advance: 2nd Runner-Up
Best Game – GameBoy Advance: 2nd Runner-Up
Best Sound: 2nd Runner-Up
Ugliest Character: The Uruk-Hai (GameCube) 2nd Runner-Up
Thanks for the report, Christian! Check out this month’s Nintendo Power to see for yourselves, and remember to keep sending all of your Lotr gaming news to havens@theonering.net.