Nevernilien wrires: I thought you might like to know that BBC World will be airing a 12 part documentary on the evolution of weaponry throughout the ages. It’s called ‘Decisive Weapons’ and will be narrated by Sean Bean. Part one will air on Wednesday April 16,2003 at 9.30 pm CET.
Month: April 2003
T-MACK writes: I work for a movie theatre in the midwest, and each week they release an upcoming films slate. What caught my attention was The Matrix: Reloaded blurb. It read that The Matrix: Revolutions would premiere its trailer exclusively at the end of the film. But then directly beneath Revolutions it stated Lord of the Rings. They usually say the trailers showing with the film, so this is common.
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virgo8877 sends in this blurb from Entertainment Weekly: Last year, hobbits bested Hogwarts: According to sales-figure sorcery just released by Publisher’s Weekly, Lord of the Rings-related books (including The Hobbit) narrowly outsold Harry Potter books in 2002. Are the wonderful wizards at odds?
The e-Rose sends along these scans from ‘Starlog Magazine’ featuring our favorite Elven King and Agent we love to hate, Hugo Weaving. [More]
Viggo went Horseback Riding (headline)
Actor Viggo Mortensen, famous from The Lord Of The Rings Films, visited Iceland in the past week. Like Aragorn he is a great horseman and he went with his son, Henry Mortensen, on horseback twice with the Laxnes Horse-Leasing Company. Both times they went for two hours in the area around Laxnes, according to Haukur Thórarinsson owner of the Leasing Co. who went with them the second time.
Did his own dishes (second headline)
“He is an exprienced rider and had fun. They cought some bad weather and lots of rain the first time but had fun nevertheless. They had soup afterwards and he even did his own dishes,” says Haukur about Viggo’s down to earth personality.
Father and son like the Icelandic horses. “I understand that he had not tried Icelandic horses before but he was very pleased,” says Haukur
As an example of Viggo’s love for horses he requested that Aragorn would be more on horseback in the films than first was thought. He always kept his horse close and went riding when he was not shooting to strengthen the relationship between rider and horse.
The Mortensens left the country yesterday, but 15 year old Henry has also appeared in movies like his father. He played Viggo’s son on the white screen in the film Crimson Tide from the year 1995.
Haukur is a big fan of The Lord of the Rings, both books and films and was very pleased with the visit. “It was a great honor”
captions:
(1) Viggo Mortensen with Kristján Ara, son of Íris and Haukur, in his arms.
(2) Henry Mortensen, horseman and actor Viggo Mortensen, Íris Kristjánsdóttir, Haukur Thórarinsson and their son, Júlíus Hauksson.
The e-Rose sends along these scans from ‘Starlog Magazine’ featuring our favorite Elven King and Agent we love to hate, Hugo Weaving.
