Gollumayee reports: “Outdoors movie-under-the-night-sky Starlight Cinema in Singapore will be showing LOTR & TTT on 21 Jun 2003 (Saturday) for S$13. First movie starts at 8 pm. Much healthier watching in the open air than in an enclosed cinema hall.” 🙂 [I notice you can also win air tickets to NZ – Tehanu]
Month: May 2003
Jess reports that David Wenham [Faramir] and Hugo Weaving [Elrond] will co-star in a 4-hour mini-series titled “After the Deluge”. They play brothers who struggle to come to terms with the roles they have played as brothers, husbands, sons and men. It will air in Oz on Channel 10 later this year.
Yes!! I just had email from Amazon indicating that my copies of The People’s Guide to JRR Tolkien have been shipped!! Check out the book here: [More]
Update: Ringer Laurelinthegolden was quick to write in: Got mine last week~after e-mailing Amazon WONDERING where is was!
Lucky!
Wilhelm of Eregion has some good thoughts about how Sauron might or might not appear in ROTK. [More]
Thoughts from Wilhelm of Eregion: “Though this is just a speculation from the text, if you were looking for a place to slip in a more dramatic visual presentation of Sauron, it seems more likely that Peter Jackson and crew would have visually expanded upon Aragorn’s experience of wrestling with Sauron for the control of Orthanc palantir. In this portion of the narrative, Tolkien used his somewhat familiar literary device of describing that confrontation after the fact. From a cinematic perspective, Jackson could create a tangible Sauron in the nether regions of “Palantir” reality and still keep true to the stated fact that Sauron could not take form in this reality without the possession of the Ring, (not to mention build a considerable amount of dramatic tension that would culminate in the necessity for the riding through the “Paths of the Dead”). And, on the other hand, doesn’t it seem somewhat redundant for Aragorn and the forces of Gondor to confront the “Mouth of Sauron” in front of the Black Gates only to be going toe to toe with the actual Sauron a few frames later. What would be the purpose of sending a messenger if you planned on making an appearance at the same time ?”
Ringer Syphon12 sends in some great images from a recent visit to New Zealand and The Stone Street Studios, where ROTK reshoots were taking place. (And also an image of the Gollum at the Embassy Theater). !!!SPOILERS!!! [More]