Singer Annie Lennox is to perform the theme song for the final instalment of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy. Her song Into The West will feature in The Return Of The King, as well as Howard Shore’s score. “It has been a fascinating experience to be a very small part of this vast jigsaw puzzle entitled The Lord of the Rings,” former Eurythmics star said. The soundtrack is out on 25 November, followed by the film on 17 December. [More]
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Dragonspace: Magical and Mythological Treasures on Granville Island. Dr. Graeme Anthony, sculptor and designer for Royal Selangor’s Lord Of The Rings collection, will be at Dragonspace on Friday, October 31, 2003 between 12:00pm and 4:00pm. Collectors and fans will be able to purchase the exclusive limited edition King Elessar goblet authenticated by the artist, only at one of these ten special events held in Canada. Partake in the magic and pre-order your piece in advance for the October 31 signing. Limited quantities are available. [dragon-space.com]
LOTR & TTT (NOT extended versions) will be screened at the London Science Museum IMAX tomorrow October 31st) at 16.45 and 20.00 with a 20 minute interval between them. [More]
Lessien writes: Jane Chance is coming to Dallas, TX to speak on Tolkien. Imagine spending a semester learning and discussing Tolkien and getting credit for it. I don’t know how many universities offer such courses, but we have such a class in Dallas, TX. It is a tri-university class involving Southern Methodist University, University of Dallas and University of Texas at Dallas. Her lecture will be open to the public. The lecture will take place at the Horchow Auditorium in the Dallas Museum of Art on November 4th at 6:30 p.m.
In NZ it’ll be October 31st in about 10 minutes as I write this, but I couldn’t wait….Happy Birthday Peter Jackson! I guess one of your birthday presents this year is sitting inside dozens of film canisters on their way to the printer’s right now, courtesy of the thousands of people that helped you turn the pictures inside your head into 3 movies…but I’ll just add in the general well-wishes of a thousand fans. We get emailed continually by people wishing they could convey their thanks and goodwill towards you, so just imagine I’ve wrapped up all those thousands of good wishes TORN’s received over the past 3 years, and rolled them all into this here note.
Monkey has news of ticket sales in Christchurch including the fact that you can already buy tickets to the first midnight show of ROTK. [More] [UPDATE: Leggylass adds that Reading cinemas in Wellington are now selling tix to the first midnight showing.] Also, there’s news from Wellington – despite heroic fundraising efforts including the generous efforts of many TORN readers, the Embassy Theatre in Wellington hasn’t raised enough money to pay for its own refurbishment and it will be handing over ownership to the City Council. The renovations for the World Premiere, however, are continuing as planned. [More] Thanks to Petra [hi, Westie neighbour!] for the link.