A high school is offering a class on hobbits, dwarves and elves. Madison High School students have traded Tolstoy for J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic “The Lord of the Rings” as part of an elective English class. Their teacher, Lyle Wakefield, says he’s abandoned what can be an ordinarily stuffy approach to the language and delved into the adventure trilogy popularized by three recent films. [More]
Day: December 26, 2004
It has been described as the worst movie ever made, but a Swiss parody of the Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy has been playing to packed cinemas across the country since it opened 10 days ago — and is set to become Switzerland’s biggest box-office hit of the year. The Ring Thing shamelessly draws its inspiration from Monty Python. Instead of Frodo it has Friedo, a bank employee who falls through the toilet of a Swiss aircraft while rehearsing his marriage proposal to his chilly boss, Heidi. [More]