From the LA Times: ‘The Lord of the Rings’ movie trilogy boosts tourism and brings other benefits to New Zealand. Locals call it the ‘Frodo economy.’ [More]
Category: Old Main News
As more news is coming in about the West End Lord of the Rings Musical, I was very glad to get an email from Kalki, who had a lot of information about one of the composers for it, called A R Rahman. He is a legend in his native India, and Kalki’s detailed report gives us reason to be excited about Rahman’s involvement in the project. [More]
You’ll want to win this competition…..”In a major promotion for its new Tasman Express class, Air New Zealand is giving passengers the chance to win tickets to the exclusive screening as well as entry to the official post-event party with members of the cast, and two nights’ accommodation.” [More] Thanks to Hamish for the link.
Antipodean Viggophile sends this link to NZ Post’s newest LOTR stamps, the ROTK collection. “New Zealand Post is honoured to present The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King™ – the third and ultimate collection in a stunning stamp series that has been acclaimed by collectors and Tolkien fans around the world.” Yeeeow, these are great! [More]
StarECentral sums up the plot of ROTK [so, OK, spoilers] but also has a few nice quotes from PJ about what he aimed to achieve with the third film. [More] Thanks to Lee for the link. Here’s the not-spoilery bit from PJ: “As the story gets bigger and the stakes get higher, the intimacy of the storytelling and emotions get tighter and smaller, until you end up with two beings literally on their hands and knees, struggling to defeat an enormous evil. Yet, instead of wrath and revenge, they have to look inside for forgiveness, for in forgiveness there is redemption, not just for a handful of characters, but for all people. There is tremendous value to standing together for a common cause at times of great risk and looming destruction.”
Anonymous sends along these HORRID pictures of the Mattel Barbie & Ken LOTR figures. They show Barbie as Arwen and Ken as Aragorn…I will now go wash my eyes out with Scope… !!!Spoilers!!! [More]