On Sunday, August 28, Jeanine Renne will be signing her book, When A Fan Hits the Sh**, at the Plaza Venezia Barnes and Noble in Orlando, Florida, from 5-7 PM. [more]
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Anton writes: This past Sunday, August the 21st, in Austin Texas, a local movie theater by the name of Alamo Drafthouse showed all three Lord of the Rings movies back to back in one day, much like theaters around the world did on trilogy tuesday two years ago. [More]
Kendra writes: The Greater (San Francisco) Bay Area Costumers Guild (GBACG) is pleased to invite you to spend an evening in Elrond’s hall at THE LORD OF THE RINGS FEAST. Elves, hobbits, dwarves, men, ents, wizards — and yes, even orcs — are invited to join us for an evening of feasting, music, dancing, and the magical words of Tolkien. [More]
Howli writes: I wanted to inform you about the New York Premiere of Howard Shore’s The Lord of the Rings Symphony, Movements I and II. On Sunday, November 13th at 2p.m. at Carnegie Hall The Collegiate Chorale, led by music director Robert Bass, will perform excerpts from Richard Wagner’s operas The Flying Dutchman, Die Walkϋre, and Götterdämmerung; and the New York Premiere of Howard Shore’s The Lord of the Rings Symphony, Movements I and II in a program entitled The Rings: Myth and Music. [More]
From sptimes.com: Listen for the pitter-patter of hairy feet at the Wyndham Orlando Resort Hotel Friday and Saturday at Elf: A Weekend of Wonder, a convention for Lord of the Rings fans. Sorry, girls, despite the location Orlando Bloom isn’t expected, but Elijah Wood (Frodo Baggins), Sean Astin (Sam Gamgee) and John Rhys Davies (Gimli) will be on hand. So will the makers of two spinoff films, the documentary Ringers: Lord of the Fans and the spoof Dork of the Rings, which features such creatures as Throbbits and Elfises. Go to creation.com for information.
Elijah Wood was shocked when Hollywood hellraiser Jack Nicholson told him he walked out of the final The Lord Of The Rings movie. The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King opened in 2003 to glowing reviews and huge box office takings, but Nicholson couldn’t sit through the whole movie – and he had no problem letting Wood know. [More]