The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers and Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets are set to go head to head at this year’s Children’s Bafta awards. Both are nominated in two categories, best feature film and the Lego/Bafta Kids best film, voted for by children. [More]
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Warner Brothers Publications has announced a songbook with arrangements for piano, vocal and chords of music from Howard Shore’s The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers score. “Pianists everywhere can now explore the spirit and grandeur of the blockbuster hit,” Warner Brothers proudly claims in a press release. The illustrated book includes arrangements of pieces like “Evenstar,” “Isengard Unleashed,” “Gollum’s Song,” “Breath of Life,” “Rohan,” and “Forth Eorlingas.” [musicfromthemovies.com]
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – They may be the fellowship of the ring, but offscreen they are pretty much the lords of the forest. Or they will be soon. The boys of New Line Cinema’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy are taking their tight-knit friendship and putting it to work to save a tree or two. So says Dominic Monaghan, who is in the planning stages — along with fellow “Rings” co-stars Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen and Orlando Bloom — of creating a programme that would give their fans and environmentally conscious consumers the chance to adopt a tree in a forest that Monaghan hopes will be in New Zealand, where all three films were shot. [More]
Pippin’sSunshine sends along these images from last weekend’s Dallas ComicCon, Brad Dourif (Wormtongue), Sala Baker (Sauron) and John Rhys-Davies (Gimli) were the special invited guests. I’ve created a collage of the images since they were too small to add into the scrapbook. [More]
Thanks to Ringer Spy RangerOfTheEast for sending in this link to the Australian Greater Union and Birch Carroll & Coyle cinema chain, which lists ‘Return of the King’ as coming in at a whopping 3.5 hours! No word yet whether this is official, so stay tuned. [More]
To start the week off we have some new scans from the Dutch version of the Return of the King Official Photoguide! Ringer Spy Mibri‘s gallery has (again) been updated with some new scans from Shagrat and Gorbag, the Ride of the Rohirrim and Sam and Frodo in Ithilien and we also have a new gallery from Ringer Spy Legolas-1303 including scans from Gorbag in Cirith Ungol and Denethor! SPOILERS GALORE!