Mentioning ‘Blind Guardian’ and their Tolkien-themed albums seems to have started a thread of correspondence as people draw our attention to their favourite Tolkien music. Blind Guardian got a lot of favourable mention, but they’re not the only band working in that area.
Gavin mentioned the Scandinavian musician Bo Hanssen, who wrote an album on Tolkien themes. I vaguely remember it being from the seventies. Whether it’s available on CD I don’t know. It has, Gavin says, a cool picture of a Nazgul on the cover, and the sleeve notes include a picture of Tolkien sitting in a forest.
Hilsen Orjen from Norway suggested checking out the band ‘Summoning.’ Though he warned, ‘…some may find the vocals a bit extreme.’
There’s audioclips of Summoning on the Web; which we’re looking for right now.
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Now you can surf the internet, with the wonderful colors (and sounds apparently) from the LOTR Film!
With the shipment of ‘The Astronaut’s Wife’ DVD, there was a little surprize hidden in the DVD. If your computer has a DVD ROM drive, you can simply click on ‘Newline’, ‘Rings’ ‘LOTRsetup’ and within very little time, it’s yours!
It’s got some great little goodies, with some Hotlinks to TheOneRing.net and our counterparts.
With the opening of the official site soon, this browser promises to come to life!
Download the official New Line LOTR browser now!
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Recently I had the opportunity to talk with Jon Huston,
creative director at ToyVault. Jon had some interesting things to say, including New Line’s take on action figures and ToyVault’s future plans. Personally I can’t wait to take my Liv Tyler Arwen doll home and make her play house with Darth Maul…
Click to read the interview here. Enjoy!
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Got some different news from various sorces today:
Lord of the Rings On TVTo promote the new paperback version of Lord of the Rings, there is a commercial being aired!
I was watching the X-Files on FX last night and one
of the commercials was for the new paperback one
volume Lord of the Rings. It’s pretty unusual to have
a TV spot for a book thats been published for a long
time so I thought that it might be part of a campaign for the upcoming movies!
He Taught Darth Maul Everything He Knows
This come from Corona “…And we’ve got another scoop from the field for you today: “I was at an event called the Sword Spectacular Weekend, and one of the guests was supposed to be Bob Anderson..the swordmaster who has done swordwork for Star Wars, The Three Muskateers, The Princess Bride, and most recentlyThe Mask of Zorro. Anyway, he wasn’t able to attend,
because he was hired to ‘Work on a movie in New
Zealand’. Well, I did some asking around (I know the
event staff) and they confirmed through a head nod
(since they couldn’t tell me directly) when I asked if
he was working on The Lord of the Rings…”
I’m asking my spies if this Anderson rumor is true, but if any of you folks out there, who want to confirm this. email me
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