From MTV: If you’re a “Lord of the Rings” fan, today and tomorrow are two big days for the film franchise’s legacy. First up, today marks the 10-year anniversary of “The Fellowship of the Ring’s” big debut on the big screen (you’re welcome for making us all feel incredibly old). Fittingly, Warner Bros has decided to release the first trailer for “The Hobbit,” the prequel movie follow-up to “The Lord of the Rings,” online tomorrow at 7 p.m. PST.
It’s been confirmed that the trailer will debut before screenings of “The Adventures of Tintin” on Wednesday, so if you want to see Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf the Grey towering over you — potentially even in 3D?! — then that’s the place to do it. But if you, like us, have been waiting for this movie to come out since 10 years ago today, then you’ll probably be refreshing your browser repeatedly to see the trailer as soon as you can. Here are five things we’re hoping to see in the trailer. More..
10 years have passed since the release of the first of the films in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and fans will surely recall Frodo’s “chicken dance” at Bilbo’s Birthday party, Merry and Pippin singing in the Green Dragon Inn, Frodo and Sam watching the Wood-elves leaving Middle-earth, and Éowyn singing a dirge at the burial of her cousin Théodred.
The songs and the music for all these scenes, termed “diegetic” or “cultural” music, were composed and performed by Plan 9 (consisting of David Donaldson, Stephen Roche, and Janet Roddick) together with David Long, who also collaborated with them on certain aspects of the sound design for the Dead Marshes, the Ents, and the One Ring.
In celebration of the The Fellowship of the Ring’s 10th Anniversary, TheOneRing.net brings you an exclusive interview with Plan 9.
"The Elvish Impersonators" (from L to R: David Long, Steve Roche, Janet Roddick, David Donaldson) working on The Lord of the Rings in December 2002
Join us as we talk to them about how they came on board Peter Jackson’s crew working on the three films, and how they approached composing, performing, and selecting instruments that would lend credibility to the fictional cultures that inhabited Tolkien’s Middle-earth. All this, and also some talk of their as-yet-unreleased music for the films.
Thanks to Ringer Gaer Carreg for doing some digging and sending in this Oct 6th exchange between the official twitter accounts of actor John Bell and Luke Evans.:
The folks from crazycritics.com have secured a new image of Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit! The image is apparently from a new issue of Empire Magaine, so look out for in newsstands everywhere!
