Mrs. Elessar writes: Yesterday at 10am, the ticket presales for Return of the King starting on December 17th as well as for the trilogy screening on December 16th, opened in Switzerland. Many many fans lined up in front of the cinemas and those who could not come tried it on the internet (at www.kitag.com, only in German) where you can also buy your tickets. “Tried” because the website couldn’t handle the hundreds of bookings at the same time and crashed down for several hours. Status today is that the Trilogy Tuesday is almost sold out, the premiere on Dec. 17th too and the following dates are selling very well. Luckily they reacted to the huge demand for the trilogy screening by adding another cinema to the list. Again, half of the tickets are sold already. Little Switzerland is going LOTR crazy!:)
Month: October 2003
Hotpinkbadger reports that over half the tickets for the Cinemark TinselTown Theater in El Paso, Texas remain unsold. Also, Line Party Leader monkeytechahoo writes: As of 13:00 on 10/16 the Carmike Wynnsong 16 theater in Mobile, AL, still has about 100 tickets left for Trilogy Tuesday. I have been checking back every other day to see how sales are going in this small Southern town. [El Paso] [Mobile]
A day after the preview of the Sideshow/Weta Collectibles ‘You Shall Not Pass’ wall plaque, we have some extremely hi-res images in our scrapbook. [More]
Barliman’s own Figgy sends in this link to some Oscar gossip from E! Online. Not only does it make a case for Viggo Mortensen as Best Actor, “who has done the best work of his career in the Lord of the Rings trilogy,” but scroll to the bottom and read some very encouraging Best Picture buzz! Wooo! [More]
Ringer Krista sends us specifics on the unabridged Tolkien audio books available for download at the iTunes store. iTunes is now available for Mac and PC. [More]
Ringer Krista sends us this info:
I thought fellow Tolkien addicts might find this interesting.
Apple’s iTunes music store (newly PC friendly) has just opened an audio books section with 5,000 titles. I thought I’d check to see there were any Tolkien books, and sure enough, there were four:
The Hobbit (abridged)
The Silmarillion Vol. I (unabridged)
The Silmarillion Vol. II (unabridged)
The Silmarillion Vol. III (unabridged)
All of these books are narrated by Martin Shaw and cost $15.95 each to download. When I checked, “The Hobbit” was #5 on today’s top sellers list, and “The Silmarillion Vol. I” was at #91.
Computers running Windows XP and Windows 2000 can now access the store, which can be done by downloading iTunes 4.1 at:
To find Tolkien books once you have the iTunes music store running, click on “Power Search.” Select the genre “Audiobooks” and type in “JRR Tolkien” under “artist.” You can also search the store using other criteria.