As expected, the Ringwraith Legendary Scale bust from Sideshow Collectibles has just started pre-ordering a few minutes ago. From the description: The Ringwraith has been expertly sculpted to capture every detail of the minion of Sauron in its ghostly hooded form. Hand-cast of the highest quality polystone, each bust is hand-painted and individually numbered. Jump over to Sideshow to get the full details and gallery. As always, by placing your pre-order/order through our Sideshow links, TORn gets a small commission to help offset site costs. Thanks in advance! [Ringwraith Legendary Scale Bust]
Month: January 2008
Vanessa “Saffron” Price, Online Community Representative for Turbine, Inc. writes: In the far north lies a range of black, craggy mountains, named Ram Dúath. Over the course of history it has served as a fortification of the Witch-king’s realm as it holds passage from the North Downs into Angmar. Take a closer look at this treacherous area in the latest addition to our Exploring Middle-earth series! Exploring Middle-earth: Ram Dúath
grammaboodawg writes: There’s an international trailer out for Elijah Wood and John Hurt’s film The Oxford Murders. It looks fantastic! This is a link through youtube. Wood’s ‘Oxford Murders’ Trailer
Dom has become the spokesperson for Project Last Stand, an organization dedicated to preserving the worlds forests and supporting groups that buy and protect local forests. One of the featured charities is a New Zealand group decicated to restoring native forest habitats along the Kapati Coast, north of Wellington. Dominic Monaghan Supports New Zealand Forests
The groovy folks from WETA write: Herewith the news updates from Weta HQ.
Weta Digital nominated for 3 awards for Waterhorse film
Weta Original Rayguns named “2007 Best Creative Toy Concept”
Iconic 80’s hair metal band POISON named in rock lineup
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Or Empires Within, Empires Without
Yes, I realize the title sounds like the name of a lacrosse team (but it’s only to insure that my compatriots read this.) Nevertheless…
A summer ago, I spent a few days in Toronto giving a little talk at IdeaCity and shooting a television program. Being in Toronto was akin to going back to a place one has never been before, one of those reassuring and slightly troubling moments where you realize that (of course) the superficiality of familiarity is enough to enhance any strange city, as long as you have some tenuous link (in this case, the entire population fiddling with their BlackBerries while walking.) So, in a way, back in a Canada to which I’d never been. Which, as it turns out, was very a propos…
In Queen’s Park*, on the way from the hotel farther downtown towards the Royal Ontario Museum, stand the Ontario Parliament Buildings. My hurried strides, and the most promising-looking shortcut on my free city map, carried me past there. Something about them was so unsettling, otherworldly and fascinating that I returned and spent two afternoons in their company. John Howe’s Journal: CANADIAN CELTICS