To my delight, while flipping through channels on the TV tonight, I came across The Fellowship of the Ring playing on TNT. Sure enough, after checking their site, they’re doing another Lord of the Rings Marathon this weekend. The Two Towers will play tomorrow night (Saturday) at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST). Then, as is their custom, they will play all three movies on Sunday. The Fellowship of the Ring will start at 11:30 a.m. EST on Sunday, culminating with The Return of the King at 7:00 p.m. EST. If you live in the U.S. and have cable or satellite TV, be sure and take this opportunity to revisit Middle-earth. Read More
Category: Movie Return of the King
It has a lot of awards already, a record number of Oscars in fact, but Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King has won Yahoo!’s “Ultimate Best Picture” prize as voted on by the people. While it isn’t the most prestigious award, it does demonstrate that J.R.R. Tolkien and the movies inspired by his works do indeed remain very popular and it beat out the grand Godfather to earn the title. Read the story over at Yahoo!.
Elven x sends this in: This week’s guest on Fictional Frontiers with Sohaib is Michael Regina from TORN (our own Xoanon) And with lots to talk about and a full summary of what’s been happening in the realms of Middle-Earth Please feel free to comment on the show and the discussion! Fictional Frontiers is aired Sundays at 11am Philadelphia time. You can listen online at WJNC1360AM Philadelphia, listen to the podcasts, or visit the Fictional Frontiers website.
Several of you have written in to alert us that “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” has made it to the final round of the Yahoo Oscar Blog’s “Ultimate Best Picture” poll. From Yahoo: “The final round of the “Ultimate Best Picture” deathmatch is here, and only one “Godfather” movie is still standing. With over a half million total votes thus far, “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” managed to edge out “The Godfather, Part II” in the semi-finals, while the “The Godfather” crushed “Schindler’s List” to gain entrance into the last round. So which of these two epic films will be crowned the greatest “Best Picture” winner of all time? You decide. Voting ends Monday at noon PT.” Follow the link to cast your vote! Vote in the Poll
From The Londonist: How many times have you been sitting at home, hungover, on a Sunday thinking to yourself “If only there was a film marathon where I could be catching up on my hobbit and elf movie watching”? If you’re like us, you think that virtually every weekend. Well, you are in luck. The Roxy Bar & Screen is hosting a series of film doubles and trebles, and they’ve just announced their newest lineup for 22 February. All the Lord of the Rings films. In one day. We adore a movie marathon, and think this one sounds fantastic. Preview: Lord of The Rings Mega Marathon
Susanne sends along this link to an hilarious collection of spoof movie posters with a LOTR theme, featured over at empireonline.com. From the website: “We asked our readers to mash up classic film posters and a given theme, and they answered in droves. See the best of the best here: you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll be appalled at the punning…” More…