Ringer Spy Elf Lady sends along this image from the latest issue of the LOTR Fanclub Magazine. It features Sam and Frodo at the Crossroads! Take a look! !!!Spoilers!!! [More]
Day: October 17, 2003
The Sony ‘Shoot for The Stars’ exhibit, where photos from people like our Orlando Bloom (Legolas) are presented, has moved from Miami to Chicago’s Loews House of Blues Hotel and is open for business today. For more information on the whole ‘Shoot for The Stars’ thingy…follow this link. [More]
Susan Thea Posnock writes: I’ve noticed a disturbing trend among many of the emails I’ve received for this column. I know it has been all fun and games up to this point, but now it’s time to get serious. Email after email describes how husbands, wives, girlfriends, boyfriends, friends, co-workers, casual acquaintances, random strangers on the street, etc. don’t support the hobbit habit. Frankly, this kind of behavior SICKENS me. Yes, it is a real tragedy that could reach epic proportions. [More]
Eriniel writes: I received the latest LOTR newsletter from Japan Herald, the distributor of LOTR trilogy in Japan, and I found a article about “Trilogy Tuesday” Tour by a travel agency called Travel Pia. [More]
airearan writes: I spotted the Realms of Fantasy December 2003 issue yesterday. The end of the LOTR article is a tad spoilerish, especially for non-book readers (well, really very spoilerish for them). But even for us who have read the book and can’t wait for the movie. !!!Spoilers!!! [More]
Eriniel writes: I received the latest LOTR newsletter from Japan Herald, the distributor of LOTR trilogy in Japan, and I found a article about “Trilogy Tuesday” Tour by a travel agency called Travel Pia.
http://www.pia.co.jp/travel/tour/ep_029.html (to view a translation, visit www.altavista.com, click on “translate,” and paste in URL)
The cost of this tour is 137,000 yen ($1,251.03) for 5 days, included round-trip airline tickets, accommodations (for 3 nights), meals, pickup bus, ticket for “Trilogy Tuesday”, half-day LA sightseeing, taxes, baggage conveyance fee.
In their schedule, they’re going to see “Trilogy” in a movie theater in LA, and at least 40 persons are looked for on this tour. Also there’s another sign in red, says “limited 120 persons” in the upper part of the advertisement.
I don’t know how this agency could arrange and hold that much number of tickets. Unbelievable! I thought this “Trilogy” event is for LOTR fans, not for benefit of travel agency. Also I’m so disappointed it seems Japan Herald isn’t planning to hold “Trilogy” event in Japan by their effort and expense (or is it?), and encourages (= introducing this tour in their official newsletter) this kind of commercial activity.