November 29 and 30 will see a huge festival setting up at Waitangi Park in Wellington. A hundred knights and barbarians will beat each other up for your entertainment, there’ll be stalls, games … food galore. If you’ll be in Wellington, it’s sure to be worth checking out. [More]
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Royal Selangor Sculptor Greame Anthony in Montreal
Xoanon here, today Kathy and I had the pleasure of meeting Royal Selangor sculptor Graeme Anthony when his world tour passed through Montreal. He was there to ‘sign’ his LOTR themed glasses, vessels, mugs and other items from Royal Selangor’s collection. [More]
Paul Lieberman writes: Elijah Wood, who is given the job of saving the world (or Middle-earth at least) in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, began his career modeling little boys’ clothing in a mall. He was just 7 when his mother moved him from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Los Angeles in 1988, and his screen debut came almost immediately, with a small part in the second episode of “Back to the Future.” Enough decent roles kept coming his way that he did not have time to do a single stage play or complete high school. He figured he could learn more “from life,” anyway, and by working with the likes of Peter Jackson, the rumpled New Zealand director who had never grossed more than $3.1 million with a film in America before he began negotiating a deal to make three, for $300 million, based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s cult classic novels — arguably the greatest gamble in filmmaking history. !!Spoilers!! [More]
Ceejay writes: I’ve just started watching the first of the extras disc on TTT exdended edition DVD after watching the film twice and have come something that caused quite a stir on the internet between the makers of the film and the fans. I remeber quite a while back about the huge uproar fans made whenit was suggested that PJ would have Arwen turn up at Helms Deep and deliver the sword of Kings to Aragorn while indulging in some sword play herself… [More]
Helen writes: I found this short interview in the Scotland on Sunday newspaper this morning with Billy Boyd. My scanner cut off the first few sentences, but they just introduce him (as “last years most eligible man”- no less). Hope you find it useful, as it says he wrote a song on the soundtrack to ROTK called “Steward of Gondor”. [More]
Shelob writes: Paving the way for The Return of the King next month, Viggo Mortensen, the King himself, visited last week the biggest city in South America: São Paulo, where the Tolkiendili community is huge and faithful. There were no public appearances but a “Meet and Greet” party on November 6th. [More]