The NW Tolkien Society folks write: We are pleased to announce a member’s only reception December 9th, at 5:30 pm at the Suzzallo Library, University of Washington, with Mr. Alan Lee, Tolkien illustrator and Conceptual Artist for the LOTR films. There is limited space. How can you attend this exclusive event? Email bekahwa@yahoo.com to request reservations (2 person limit). Memberships can be purchased at the door, but only 70 can attend. After the reception, we’ll head over to the University Bookstore for Mr. Lee’s book signing.
Month: November 2004
Without a new Lord of the Rings movie to look forward to, Christmas 2004 just won’t be the same. At least console owners can settle for this Tolkien spin-off, which features lots of clips from Peter Jackson’s trilogy, as well as a suitably sombre voice-over from Ian McKellan (Gandalf). Millions of dollars were piled into the Third Age, and it shows. [More]
Young Adam has swept the board at the Scottish Baftas, winning four awards including best film. Stars Ewan McGregor and Tilda Swinton were named best actor and best actress at the ceremony in Glasgow, with David MacKenzie the best director. Celebrities from film, television and the music industry turned out on Sunday night for the first of Scotland’s new bigger, annual Bafta events. They included Lord of the Rings star Billy Boyd, who said Scottish film was doing “really well” at the moment. “The more nights we can have like this, the better, to show we can do it up here, we don’t have to go up to London to do it,” he said. [More]
Eomer’s Woman writes” A small group of us is attending the upcoming LOTR Symphony in Baltimore, to be performed by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) on Dec. 7th and 8th. I wrote to the BSO to see if they were interested in organizing a “meet and greet” similar to those that Howard Shore and Sissel participated in previously. They wrote back and told me that they would love to do it, and wanted to know roughly how many people were interested (after each performance). For all those planning on attending the event, we have created a yahoo group. On that group page there is an area where you can indicate if you are interested in attending. [More]
The folks from action-figure.com send along part 2 of thier coverage from the NY Toy Fair (Part 1 can be found here.) Take a look at all the goodies coming your way! Only 39 shopping days until Christmas, by the way. [More]
Lee sends along word that the 4th book in the ‘Art of’ series ‘The Art of The Lord of the Rings’ has had a cover change. Take a look at the new cover, and pre-order the book at Amazon.com [More]