This thing looks awesome! Sideshow/Weta Collectibles has just released a Gandalf the Grey bronze statue. The piece stands…
Continue Reading
This thing looks awesome! Sideshow/Weta Collectibles has just released a Gandalf the Grey bronze statue. The piece stands approximately 24 inches tall, and weighs nearly 70lbs! Limited editions don’t come much more limited than this – just 36 will be produced worldwide. The piece first appeared for sale at comic Con 2003 at the Sideshow/Weta Collectibles booth in the Lord of the Rings pavillion. [More]
TORn’s Elvish 101 lessons continue! Drop into our IRC channel #thehalloffire for some raw, pure action as we cover the Elvish Verb! These active Elvish-parts-of-speech allow us to finally begin constructing some sentences! [Barliman’s Chat]
Alda reminds us that after all the Comicon buzz, there is a very different convention approaching on July 25-28 in Nashville, Tennessee. “Mythcon might not be as much in the pop-culture as comic-con, but it is and has been one of the best scholarly conferences dedicated to the fantasy world and works of Tolkien and Lewis,” he says. TORN staffers Quickbeam and Tehanu, who attended in 2000, would be quick to agree with that.
That’s a question many Lord of the Rings fans asked about The Fellowship of the Ring film, which omitted this popular character from the first novel of the trilogy. But even though he didn’t appear on screen, he’ll be coming to The Lord of the Rings TCG – and you’ll be able to get an exclusive preview version of his card as a bonus when you complete the Countdown to the King! Here’s how it works.
Decipher has selected 18 rare cards, representing some of the most important characters, possessions, and artifacts from the Fellowship and Tower blocks – from The Balrog, Terror of Flame and Shadow, to Aragorn, Defender of Free Peoples – for reproduction with new lore and alternate template artwork. (There is no duplication with the Fellowship Anthology cards.) Each week of the Countdown to the King, you’ll be able to get one of these exclusive cards from participating retailers with a $10 (or €10) purchase of Fellowship or Tower block booster packs. With your first purchase, you’ll receive an oversized checklist card to track your progress toward earning these rewards
At the end of six weeks, after you have collected the first six cards, you will receive a Fellowship of the Ring poster depicting every card in the Fellowship block.
At the end of 12 weeks, after you have collected the second six cards, you will receive a Two Towers poster depicting every card in the Tower block.
After the full 18 weeks, when you have collected all 18 cards, you will earn an exclusive collector’s binder to house your 18 cards – plus four bonus preview cards depicting characters that did not appear in the motion pictures, including Tom Bombadil!
The countdown begins August 25th and runs through December 29, 2003. Offer available through participating retailers only, while supplies last. Talk to your local retailer today to make sure they’re on board, and watch www.decipher.com for weekly previews of the upcoming week’s new card.
Join us in the Countdown to the King, and get your very own answer to the question, “Where’s Tom Bombadil?”
Silmarien writes: I took these photos last month and have finally got around to having the film developed. As you can see by the lighting boom they must have been filming. You can’t see much through the front gate so we went to the hill up the back of the studio and got the other shots of what looks like the entrance to a tunnel and a doorway or gate. [More]
Leah Jakusovszky was one of the lucky few to get transformed into a Hobbit by WETA Workshop at Comic-Con 2003. She sends along her story and these images! [More]
