Music-loving Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood is being lined up to host his own radio show in Britain. The Hollywood actor, 23, has been asked by pop flagship station BBC Radio One to stand in for veteran DJ John Peel when he goes on vacation later this year. [More]
Month: May 2004
Jicin writes: There’s a real funny spoof of LotR in Shrek 2. Shrek get’s a golden ring out of a fire, much like Gandalf did. He accidently throws it up in the ear and it ‘falls’ on Fionas finger in exactly the same way with Frodo at the prancing pony. Then words lit up that say ‘I love you’.
Stepper writes: Thought you’d like to see some photos of what must be one of the youngest Ringers, my son Max (b. July 2003) who has now been to ‘Edoras’ and the LOTR exhibition in Singapore. (These are photos he is going to be very upset about when he is a teenager!!). [More]
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Stepper writes:
Thought you’d like to see some photos of what must be one of the youngest Ringers, my son Max (b. July 2003) who has now been to ‘Edoras’ and the LOTR exhibition in Singapore. (These are photos he is going to be very upset about when he is a teenager!!)
We are expatriate Kiwis living in HK, so at Christmastime, whilst back in NZ we went up to Mt Sunday with him – He is 5 months old in the first shot (my husband is carrying him). The river behind us was too deep to cross at that time with a baby attached, so we couldn’t go up onto the mount. However we did see other people getting across – you are allowed to go there without a tour provided you respect the ‘gates and cattle’ rules on the land. (This is from a CD scan of a negative so quality may not be great)
Last weekend we flew to Singapore to see the Te Papa/New Line exhibition at the Science Centre. I’ve included a shot from outside the science centre – there were also similar banners attached to lamposts advertising the exhibition all over the main tourist areas including hundreds down Orchard Rd. The last photo is of myself and Max outside the exhibit entrance.
It is an amazing exhibition!! I know it is going on to Boston, London and Sydney and it is definitely well worth any effort expended to see it. You cannot take photos or video inside, and I don’t want to spoil all the surprises if you are planning to attend and have not read other reports but I will just quickly describe some of what you can see.
You walk in to an incredibly atmospheric room with spot-lit exhibits and noise from the films all around you (from all the video replays that are in each section). There are details in the exhibits that you would never spot on film e.g the faded embroidery in the ringwraith’s costumes. All the costumes are beautifully done. The armour is spectacular and you can feel examples of the chainmail and the swords in one section.
The videos are mainly footage from the extended DVDs – I didn’t get to see a lot of those with the time restrictions that a baby gives you, but it looks like some of it will be items for the ROTK DVD e.g. the Shelob section.
Also there are lots of paintings from Alan Lee and John Howe (and others) including the originals of the two limited editions currently on sale at the Weta store.
Plus they have a section where they take photos of yourself and family/friends as though you are hobbit and wizard size, sitting on a replica of Gandalf’s cart and adding in backgrounds of the shire! My husband, who teaches visual perception, was particularly excited by this!
The exhibition is in Singapore until June 4th.
Kenneth writes: I was at the Colorado Adventure Festival here in San Dimas, California where they had an adventure race (kayaking, running, mountain biking, and “special tests”). The announcer said that Sean Astin was racing. As racers were coming through the finish line he announced about 6 times that Sean Astin had just finished. I turned to look and there he was! My friends and I went nuts and many people came around him to shake his hand and meet him. He was extremely cordial and didn’t look annoyed or frustrated at all, despite just finishing a tiring adventure race.
Kevin writes: Decipher posted two more cards from their Reflections set today. I don’t think these are from the ROTK EE; I get the feeling that like Tom Bombadil, Radagast et al these were ‘staged’ by Weta Workshop just for these photos. [More]