“This city was once the jewel of our kingdom. A place of light, and beauty, and music. And so it shall be once more! Let the armies of Mordor know this: Never again will the land of my people fall into enemy hands. This city of Osgiliath has been reclaimed for Gondor!
-Boromir to the Gondorian Troops after taking back Osgiliath
A son of Gondor has arrived from Sideshow Collectibles. Boromir, Son of Denethor is the sixth statue from Sideshow’s growing
and spectacular The Lord of the Rings statue line. Unlike the other statues in this line this one does come from a moment in the film that you can only see if you watch the extended version. They have captured Boromir’s stirring speech to the troops upon them taking back the western half of Osgiliath.
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The graphics on the box for Boromir follows the same path as previous releases from this series. You have the front and black panels, which are black with The Lord of the Rings and Boromir done in a shade of Silver. While on the sides of the box you get an image of the statue from two different angles. The material of the box is different though as the past boxes have been more of a matte finish where as this one is more glossy. Inside the box of course you have the protective foam with multiple areas for the many pieces that this statue comes with. Continue reading “Collecting The Precious – Sideshow Collectibles’ Boromir Son of Denethor Statue Review”
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The Tolkien Society has announced the addition of Peter Gilliver to the guest list of its Return of the Ring event in August.
Peter, who is Associate Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, will be delivering a talk titled “Making the Music: a possible source for the Ainulindalë”. Peter is well-known to Tolkien fans as co-writer of The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary, and has described Tolkien’s time at the OED as “crucial” in shaping Tolkien’s works. Continue reading “Tolkien Society adds Peter Gilliver to Return of the Ring”
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Tolkien researcher John Garth is the author of Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth. Michael Martinez, who describes it as “a great biographical portrait of a young man who sees his world divided between life and death” chats with the author over on Xenite.org about how Tolkien’s experiences of war might have influenced his fiction.
An excerpt:
From almost as early as [Tolkien] could remember he had lived in and around Birmingham, one of the biggest industrial cities of the era, and as a lover both of nature and of rural life he was acutely aware of the encroachment of the town. He was also well aware of the Arts & Crafts Movement spearheaded by William Morris, one of his favourite authors (The House of the Wolfings, The Roots of the Mountains, etc.), and I’m sure his own views on the alienating effects of ‘mechanical’ labour were considerably shaped by those of Morris and his followers.
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There’s some odd (spoilers!), peculiar (spoilers!) and just plain bizarre (spoilers!) stories coming out of the Hobbit production of late.
That’s why this weekend in Hall of Fire, we’re devoting a session to pondering what’s going through the minds of the brains trust.
Is this sort of thing your nightmare hobbit script scenario? If not, when do you go, “this is too silly for words”?
Or are you of the view that JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit is, itself, so often whimsical or fantastical that additions like the above can only enhance the movie’s light-hearted appeal?
So join us this Saturday, June 16 at 6.00pm EDT (New York time), when we’ll discuss all this and much more as we look at the latest Hobbit movie rumours!
Continue reading “Hall of Fire this weekend: Bunnies, boars and bad romance. What next from the brains trust?”
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We’d heard the next Hobbit trailer was coming soon. Now CaptainSalt has let us know that the Alberta Film Ratings website, which lists trailers before they appear in US theaters has classified the trailer #2 with a G rating.
The run time is listed at 2 minutes, 24 seconds, eight seconds shorter than the first trailer. Trailers are listed on the site preceding their official release, so this means the trailer has been finalised and will be debuting soon! (Anyone taking bets for San Diego Comic-con?)
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In this interview published yesterday in Australian media outlet News.com.au, Billy Connolly speaks forthrightly about the newest projects he’s been involved in: Brave and Quartet.
He saves the best for last though, dropping a bombshell spoiler about his role as Dain Ironfoot in the Hobbit. It’s just so outrageous that maybe, just maybe, he’s pulling our leg?
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