Tonight, Liv Tyler is scheduled to be on NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien. [More]
Month: March 2004
This has absolutely nothing to do with Tolkien, except maybe for being some of the best serial ‘Fantasy’ written since the dear professor put down his pen. The New York Review of Books has posted a quite lengthy review of Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” series that is well-worth a read (and a postcard for reading the books themselves). Check it out! [More]
Over the objections of neighbors, city Plan Commission members voted 5-0 Monday to recommend approval of a subdivision next to a landfill. The commission recommended that the Common Council rezone the land to allow the project, which will feature streets named after characters and places in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings.” [More]
From The Scotsman: Imagine a world in which The Lord of the Rings and the Chronicles of Narnia didn’t exist; where children had never encountered the Snow Queen of Narnia or read the adventures of Gandalf, Frodo and Sam; where Peter Jackson was just another jobbing director looking for his big break and the film industry was significantly poorer. [More]
From HowardShore.com: Howard Shore has signed a copy of his Academy Award-winning score to Return of the King to be auctioned on Ebay with all profits being donated to the Tree People charity. Tree People helps fund the planting of trees as part of a restoration project for lands damaged by wildfires in the state of California. You only have a few days left to own a piece of film music history! [More]
Ringer Spy arthur writes: I was looking for maya, a digital software tool for 3d animation, and on their website www.alias.com they have a link to play behind the scenes footage of the making of ROTK. Here’s the link to the part of the site with the clip in it. [More]