Empire Magazine asked their readers to vote on their favorite movie trilogies and Peter Jackson’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’ has taken the top spot. LOTR beat out other film trios such as the original Star Wars films (2), Back to the Future (3), Toy Story (4) and The Godfather (5). Not that we are biased or anything, but we believe the results came out as they should! Check out the full list over at Empire Online. Thanks to Ringer Mikstan for sending us the link. [33 Greatest Movie Trilogies] [LOTR Top Spot]
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In celebration of the Two Towers concert at Radio City Music Hall next month, I will be tweeting the entire text of ‘The Two Towers’ on the official Twitter page. Join in on the fun and see if I can make it in 3 weeks time!
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For anyone who is addicted to ‘tower defense’ type games on their iPhone, you will be getting an amazing Christmas present this year. The folks from Glu Mobile are releasing an officially licensed The Lord of the Rings game app for the iPhone titled ‘The Lord of the Rings: Middle-earth Defense’.
The Lord of the Rings: Middle-earth Defense – Relive the major battles from the epic movie trilogy as you take command of Frodo, Aragorn and many other classic characters in a strategic tower defense game.
Gizmodo has posted a video of the gameplay featuring ‘story mode’ with Aragorn and Legolas are battling some ringwraiths and wargs (or at least it looks that way from the video). This is the first time we are seeing the gameplay, and it is expected to be available in December for download. Jump over to Gizmodo to check out the gameplay. Thanks to TORn Staffer Jincey for the heads up! [Gizmodo] [Glu Press Release]
Howard Shore’s The Lord of the Rings soundtrack has taken the top spot on UK’s Classic FM’s top 100 movie music chart. Thanks to Ringer Diztek for sending us the link. For the full list, jump over to Classic FM. [Top 100 MovieMusic] [LOTR Top Spot]
Our friends at Warner Bros Studios are also celebrating Bilbo and Frodo’s birthday today with up to 50% off selected items, and free shipping on orders of $60 or more from their WBshop.com store. This might be a perfect opportunity to nab a Halloween costume, DVD or that Gandalf bobblehead you’ve been putting off buying. Check out their complete Lord of the Rings offerings here. Thanks to stormcrow20 for the alert.
From www.radiolive.co.nz: Bruce Hopkins chats to Michael Regina who along with Kiwi Erica Challis was one of the co-founders of the web site TheOneRing.Net. They were a couple of Tolkien fans who wanted to keep an eye on how the filming of Lord Of The Rings was progressing. Their subsequent website began getting 500,000 hits each day! TORN made history as a marketing tool for the film. Peter Jackson ended up supplying Michael with weekly video diaries of the making of King Kong. More..