Word from Taniwha about the home of ROTK’s world premiere, the Embassy in Wellington. They’re doing a great trilogy marathon on the 17th. There’s also a countdown clock and you can overlook the Embassy on their webcam from now on. [More]
Day: November 4, 2003
Taniwha sent in the link to the countdown clock and webcam overlooking the home of ROTK’s world premiere, The Embassy Theatre. [More]
He also sent word of a really good trilogy marathon to be held at the Embassy. Here’s the word from them:
As we countdown to the World Premiere of the final instalment of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the Embassy Theatre in Wellington is preparing for yet another unique event in conjunction with Tolkien’s trilogy – a one-off screening of all 3 films back-to-back on Wednesday 17 December. The screenings start on Wednesday afternoon with Fellowship of the Ring, leading into The Two Towers and finally at midnight with the first public, and sure to be extremely excitingly charged, screening of The Return of the King.
The first 400 marathon viewers will receive a stunning commemorative desktop item made of solid pewter that incorporates images from each film and this collectible will not be available anywhere else in Australasia. We are advised that this has been created by Peter Jackson and the Weta Workshop. Each of the pieces will be unique and different, containing original film frames from The Fellowship Of The Ring, The Two Towers and The Return Of The King.
“In my experience, never has there been this much interest in a film” said Embassy Manager Michelle O’Donnell. “The interest in The Lord Of The Rings – The Return of the King is getting bigger by the day – it just seems to be growing and is getting really exciting!” she said.
After the Monday 1 December Wellington World Premiere of The Return Of The King, the Embassy will begin screening exclusively the extended version of the Fellowship of the Ring from Thursday 4th December. A week later the Two Towers extended version will begin its exclusive season on Thursday 11th December. Then both of these films screen back to back on Wednesday 17th leading into the midnight screening of the much anticipated The Return Of The King.
This marathon event of screening the 3 The Lord of the Rings films together has proven popular in the USA, selling out in many cities there and Wellington is certain to follow this pattern.
“Bookings are coming in from all over New Zealand, Australia, USA and Europe” said Ms O’Donnell “with a huge interest from Asia as well. Many are wanting to be in Wellington for the World Premiere of The Return Of The King, then are holidaying through the country and coming back to Wellington for when the film opens on the 18th. But I think many are now having to adjust their plans to be here for this unique marathon screening of all 3 films. These are the real Tolkien aficionados and for them, Wellington is LOTRwhere its at, as the Embassy is recognised as the spiritual home of the film.” she said.
Tickets for the marathon will go on sale in the next few weeks but if you need further information or wish to register and be first in line, then please contact us at; info@deluxe.co.nz
Annalisa sends us news from his corner of the academic world, including the Tolkien Encyclopaedia, and ‘so you want to be a Tolkien Scholar.’ [More]
Annalisa sends us news from Michael Drout’s corner of the academic world, including the Tolkien Encyclopaedia, and ‘on becoming a Tolkien Scholar.’
“I wrote in previously when Dr. Michael Drout of Wheaton College (“Beowulf and the Critics”) mentioned he was in talks to edit a new Tolkien Encyclopedia. It is now official and on his website he says that “The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia” will be out in 2006, published by Routledge.
“He also mentions that there will be a large article on Tolkien in the November 16th issue of the Boston Globe (he was interviewed).
“And finally, in the October 19th entry of his blog he has some very interesting advice for graduate students interested in becoming Tolkien Scholars. Furthermore, he is also working on publishing the first issue of “Tolkien Studies”, the first academic journal focusing on the works of JRRT.”
A few days back Kalki sent us an in-depth article on Tamil composer A R Rahman who’ll be working on the West End LOTR musical. Now Kati writes in to tell us about the other half of the composing team, Finnish group Värttinä. “Everybody in Finland knows Värttinä and the news of their involvement in the musical was on main TV news here in Finland on Oct 21th. Their music is delightful combination of modern and traditional instruments with musical melodic ideas from Karelian heritage. This is in my opinion “living Kalevala”!” [More]
In case you could possibly be bored around Wellington around the Premiere, now Upper Hutt is offering film location tours that you can sign up to for that weekend, in the Wellington area. [More]