Diane writes: Cinemaworld celebrates the 6 year anniversary of The Lord of the Rings trilogy with an exclusive screening of all three The Lord of the Rings films on April 25th & 26th, starting at Noon. See these ground-breaking films, up on the big screen again, on film, in all their glory. Cinemaworld is also proud to announce that we have managed to reserve the Extended Editions of Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers, showing you more of the movie than ever before! The fun starts at noon with 20 minute intermissions between film. Join us to relive one of the greatest feats in modern movie making. More…
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According to thedigitalbits.com the LOTR Blu ray disk is going to be released this December. More…
The folks from Crescent Moon Publishing send along word of two Tolkien books available on Amazon.com. Take a look at Tolkien’s Heroic Quest (Paperback) and J.R.R. Tolkien: The Books, The Films, The Whole Cultural Phenomenon, Including a Scene By Scene Analysis of the 2001-2003 Lord of the Rings Films (Paperback). Continue reading “New Tolkien Books from Crescent Moon Publishing”
When director Peter Jackson asked Howard Shore to compose the score for “The Lord of the Rings” film trilogy, Shore studied J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy world before beginning four years of writing music. At a Master’s Tea Tuesday afternoon, Shore shared insights about composing, orchestrating, conducting and producing more than ten hours of music to accompany “The Lord of the Rings” films in front of more than 100 students in the Branford College common room. The Academy Award-winning composer, who also wrote the scores for “Mrs. Doubtfire” and “Doubt,” among others, also told stories about working on other genres of music before his venture into cinema. Shore began the talk by describing his first encounters with music. From the beginning, his clarinet teacher felt it was important that he learn music composition techniques such as harmony and counterpoint, he said. By the time Shore was 11 years old, he was already writing small pieces. Shore shares insights on ‘Rings’ trilogy
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
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!.