Holly writes: There is an interview in today’s (12/18) USA Today with Peter Jackson. [More]
Day: December 19, 2003
A Mac user writes: Excellent news for all mac users! Though we have waited long our patience will soon be rewarded! Aspyr is reported to be working on the conversion of Return of the King Game for the macs of the world. [More]
Early in “The Fellowship of the Ring,” the first film in Peter Jackson’s monumental “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, the wizard Gandalf finds himself alone in a room with the trinket that could end the world. It lies gleaming on the floor, and Gandalf regards it with an attitude of fascinated fear. The audience feels a chill that neither Jackson’s vertiginous camera angles nor Ian McKellen’s arching eyebrows can fully explain. [More]
TORn Staffer Anwyn has written up a new counterpoint. But it’s not a review. Why, you ask? Read on … [More]
Once, decades ago, Marquette University was good to J.R.R. Tolkien, a little-known Catholic author of fantasies. Now that Tolkien’s properties are blockbuster movies, they in turn are very good for Marquette, which is adding to its world-class collection of original Tolkien material. [More]