A few days back Kalki sent us an in-depth article on Tamil composer A R Rahman who’ll be working on the West End LOTR musical. Now Kati writes in to tell us about the other half of the composing team, Finnish group Värttinä. “Everybody in Finland knows Värttinä and the news of their involvement in the musical was on main TV news here in Finland on Oct 21th. Their music is delightful combination of modern and traditional instruments with musical melodic ideas from Karelian heritage. This is in my opinion “living Kalevala”!” [More]
Category: Old Main News
In case you could possibly be bored around Wellington around the Premiere, now Upper Hutt is offering film location tours that you can sign up to for that weekend, in the Wellington area. [More]
A world-wide alliance of Tolkien Societies is planning a week-long Tolkien festival in Brussells next March. [More]
Lee sends news of Mortensen’s exhibition in Wellington, in this item from Massey University News. There is to be a Grand Benefit Opening with LOTR stars in attendence, on November 28th. Tickets are $100, proceeds go to the University’s proposed School of Film. [More]
Emilio (as well as many others) writes: It was announced recently that Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) will arrive tonight (November 3rd) in Mexico City and will have a special press conference on Wednesday (November 5th) to promote ROTK.
The Official site has updated once again with a special look at Minas Tirith, take a look! [More]