Ringer Spy Silivren-Gul writes: I had the privilege today to go to see Howard Shore conduct LOTR music at the Royal Festival Hall today with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
It was nothing short of spectacular! The music was performed in six movements, two for each film. The set up was as follows:
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Fellowship Of The Ring
Movement 1:
The Prophecy-Concerning Hobbits – The Shadow Of The Past – A Short Cut To Mushrooms – The Old Forest – A Knife In The Dark
Movement 2:
Many Meetings – The Ring Goes South – A Journey In The Dark – The Bridge of Khazad-Dum – Lothlorien (which was incorrectly spelt in the program as Lothloriem!) – Gandalf’s Lament – Farewell To Lorien – The Great River – The Breaking Of The Fellowship (Including In Dreams but not May It Be 🙁 )
20 minute interval
The Two Towers
Movement 3:
Foundations Of Stone – The Taming Of Smeagol – The Riders Of Rohan – The Black Gate Is Closed – Evenstar – The White Rider – Treebeard – The Forbidden Pool
Movement 4:
The Hornburg – Forth Eorlingas – Isengard Unleashed – Gollum’s Song
The Return Of The King
Movement 5:
Hope And Memory – The White Tree – The Steward Of Gondor (No vocals 🙁 ) – Cirith Ungol – Anduril
Movement 6:
The End Of All Things – The Return Of The King – The Grey Havens – Into The West
Standing Ovation ( 🙂 )
Throughout the performance, artwork by John Howe and Alan Lee was shown on a screen above the orchestra, and not clips from the films. It made an excellent mix, putting together film music and book artwork, and proved very popular.
The Choirs present were “London Voices” (soloists : Susan Flannery and Lawrence Wallington) and the “London Oratory School (Schola Cantorum)” (soloist: Benedict Delmaestro). Also present, doing most of the solo vocals was an exquisitely talented Scandinavian woman by the name of “Sissel” (www.sissel.net) who did an amazing job singing many solo parts.
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All this, combined with the energetic conducting from the amazing Howard Shore made up a very memorable concert, and for those who could not go, tickets are still on sale for the 22nd September (Royal Albert Hall) when there will be a similar performance, in honour of Frodo and Bilbo’s birthday! (www.royalalberthall.com) I am certainly going again, and I recommend it to you all!
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Among the other early release of ROTK reports we have had, we can now confirm that some local grocery stores (Specifically Ralphs in CA), have put the 2-disc theatrical edition in check-out lanes a little early…just like they did last year for TTT!
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Ringer Spy Divina writes: “I am a French professor at the Sorbonne University currently conducting an international research project on the reception of Lord of the Rings. I badly need your help to help me contact French fans, who would be likely to fill-in an on-line questionnaire for the project.” [More]
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How many of us around the globe wanted to be in, or even part of, Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies? How many of us were actually in them? This funny, quirky short film is about exactly that: a few average Joes – ok, maybe not so average Joes—who heard about the films, got off their duffs and out of their garage, went hunting for the Man himself, and actually made it into the movies. More Bogans!
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How many of us around the globe wanted to be in, or even part of, Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies? How many of us were actually in them? This funny, quirky short film is about exactly that: a few average Joes – ok, maybe not so average Joes—who heard about the films, got off their duffs and out of their garage, went hunting for the Man himself, and actually made it into the movies.
From the first scene, in which our principal actors, Peter Tait (Shagrat in TTT), Paul Glover & Ian Hughes (Irolas in RotK) hear about Jackson’s LotR movie enterprise on a car stereo rigged up in a cardboard box, to the last line, “Swap!” Bogans is just plain fun. It’s a raucous tale of a road trip to find cash, fame, and PJ. Those of you who must have everything LotR-movie related can’t live without this in your collection, even though it’s not for young children or the more conservative viewer (parents are STRONGLY advised to preview this movie before purchasing for youth as it contains plenty of lawbreaking, hooliganisms (boganisms??) & orcish language).
If you’re hungry for more Middle-earth, don’t buy Bogans. But if you’re craving more NZ LotR-themed film footage, want to see what some real Kiwis look like, sound like, and (gasp!) possibly act like (well, some of them anyway…), then Bogans is for you.
Who needs money? Who needs a car battery? Who needs lettuce on their hamburgers? Who needs books (“There’s nothing wrong with ‘em!”)? Heck, who needs a cell phone? You’ll find answers to these and more in Bogans. If you value a set of 1950’s hardback LotR over a bottle of Jack Daniels, then spend your pence elsewhere, but if you want one more taste of New Zealand (and there are some nice landscape shots) with that LotR-influenced flavor, Bogans might just make your day. I know it made mine!
You can learn more about what bogans are, who made this film, and even get your copy right here: Bogans website. Enjoy!
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Ringer Nethiel writes: “You can save up to $10 on the ROTK DVD or VHS at Walgreens with 2 $5 off coupons in their ad. If you use both( you have to buy a pack of Duracell batteries to get 5 bucks off one) the total come out to be something like 5.99!”
UPDATE: One of our Ringer spies writes in: “My fiance is a Store manager and has told me that the stores do carry LIMITED amounts of flyers in the store with these coupons, but to check your Sunday paper for the flyers advertising all of the sales each store is having for the week. Hope that helps.”
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