Cate Blanchett’s one-year-old son has been burned in an accident in a hotel in Morocco. Blanchett and Roman were flown back to London in a private jet for hospital treatment, London’s Daily Mirror newspaper reported. “Roman had an accident and he’s being treated for a minor burn,” publicist Lisa Kasteler told the newspaper. “He’s not on a drip. He’s still being treated and Cate is with him.” [More]
Everyone at TORN wishes little Roman a speedy recovery!
Category: Old Main News
Olog-Hai writes: For all TORners in the UK, here’s an update on my ongoing tour promoting my book ‘The Science of Middle-earth’, which started life (of course) on Green Books (where it still continues). Today (May 17th) I will be at Cafe Scientifique, Stockton on Tees. Follow this link for more dates and times! [More]
A world-first motel has been created in a hillside at Waitomo. Inspired by the Lord of the Rings trilogy, two hobbit motel rooms are the latest to be built at Woodlyn Park. The park’s motel also has a Bristol Freighter plane and train carriages for people to stay in. The hobbit units come complete with round leadlight windows and a round door. They are dug out of a hillside and sheep graze on their grass roofs. [More]
Amatire writes: I just thought you might be interested in a little info on what the 6th Annual Tolkien festival at The Shire Country Park Birmingham was like. I think probably the most important thing to tell you about (in case you have not heard yet) was the display talking about the plans for Moseley village centre. To commemorate the life of JRRT and the establishment of the new Shire Country Park, Tim Tolkien (I’m not sure how he’s related, great, great nephew or something?) has designed a huge metal statue of Treebeard which will stand in the central island of the village green. This is really exciting, because until recently there was little to indicate to the public that Tolkien had had anything to do with Birmingham. [More]
Finding the music for The Lord of the Rings was daunting, but orchestrator Christopher Nightingale found the sound by blending Finnish folk group Värttinä with A.R. Rahman’s eastern tones. We’ve had “The Music of the Night.” Now get ready for the Music of the Rings. Christopher Nightingale is the orchestrator and musical supervisor of the $27-million stage adaptation of The Lord of the Rings currently holding auditions in Toronto, and there’s one thing he wants to make perfectly clear. “I definitely wouldn’t describe it as a musical.” [More]
Images of ‘The Stash’ (heretofore called Viggo Mortensen) at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival in France. ‘The Stash’ is there to promote Canadian director David Cronenberg’s latest film ‘A History of Violence’ starring ‘The Stash’, Maria Bello and William Hurt. Take a look! [More]
(Editor’s note: ‘The Stash’ of course reffers to Viggo enormous moustache he’s sporting for his latest film, ‘Alatriste’ -Xo)