Sad news this morning as TORN learns that Peter Woodthorpe, who brough Gollum’s voice to life in the BBC radio presentation and animated version of The Lord of the Rings, has died. According to monkeyheaven.com Woodthorpe had not been too well for a while. He was 72.
Category: Merchandise
Thanks to Cedric, who contacted us about a local craftsman making LOTR-style pipes in his area of Lincoln, NE. They’re featured on E-bay here. “They are styled after the Macqueen pipes, though they are longer in the stem by a few inches.”
Lúthien Rising writes: Ralph Wood, author of ‘The Gospel According to Tolkien’, will be giving a talk and a more informal seminar in Toronto, September 17 and 18, 2004. A poster for the event is attached. [More]
universalmusicstore.com is auctioning off some interesting items for ‘Songs of Hope’. CanadianCricket writes: As of this time bids for this Return of the King/Into the West sheet music signed by Annie Lennox are only at $51! I have to believe that with a little help from exposure on TORN’s main page that much much more could be raised for this worthy cause! [More]
It is proving to be the one book to guide them all. When Ian Brodie first approached director Peter Jackson with an idea to write a book based on locations from the Lord of the Rings movie sets around New Zealand, he wasn’t expecting to be given the green light. Now, more than 200,000 copies later, a larger coffee table version of the book has been launched. [More]
Ian Brodie and Mike