If you haven’t poked your eye into Gaming Havens in the last day or so, you should definitely…
Continue ReadingIf you haven’t poked your eye into Gaming Havens in the last day or so, you should definitely do so. For starters, we have new screenshots from the Hobbit. [More]
Then – if that’s whet your appetite – Vivendi-Universal has just announced it will be creating a LoTR MMPORG called Middle Earth Online. Check out these early screenshots. [More]
Chris Kataan, the Saturday Night Live veteran, has quit the show to pursue a film career in Hollywood. Why do we mention this on TheOneRing.net? Well, you know Chris from his portrayal of Gollum during the 2003 SuperBowl and other SNL episodes. [Oscar Appearance] [Superbowl Appearance]
Glyndwr sends us this report on JRD’s interview on the Welsh programme ‘Popcorn.’ [More]
Glyndwr wrote in: Just seen JRD’s interview on S4C’s entertainment show, “Popcorn”. Talking to the interviewer in the Welsh Black Mountains, JRD looked very relaxed considering his recent accident. Apart from doing a passable impersonation of Gollum (“S4C lovesss us, my precious; no they don’t, they hatesss us!”), and talking once again about the hours spent having Gimli’s prosthetics attached painfully to his face, he said how he had been persuaded by his son to take the role of Gimli in the trilogy after initially being unsure whether it would be a success. As soon as he began work on the project, however, he knew that it would be massive.
“Living in Salisbury,” he said, “my mum and dad found that I was getting mocked by the other kids, and they decided they would only talk to me in English… I don’t speak Welsh any more, but the music of Wales is in my head.”
Today’s Welsh Daily Mirror also reported how JRD’s big ambition was to play rugby in the red shirt of Wales, as his father had been a forward for Pontypool and had a Welsh trial in 1934. “In those days,” he said, “miners would come out of the pit, have a bath, run down to the pitch and then hammer each other.”
Perhaps today’s Welsh team ought to take a leaf out of that book: they might actually win some matches!
Kristina found this in a listing of software events in her area: Milton Ngan of Weta is to be keynote speaker at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention at the Portland Marriott Downtown in July. His conference presentation, called “Tales from The Two Towers,” sounds like it will be very geeky, but should be fun if you’re into software development. [More]
From Jason, this link to the winners of the 3D awards in Copenhagen, where TTT won an award for best 3D visual effects in a feature film. [More]
