Anette writes: The auction house I am working in recently received a letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to a fan to sell at auction. The letter reveals the real life setting of Gondor, and tells of the problems he is facing getting the third and final book published. A full transcript as well as pictures are available from our web site. [More]
Category: Old Main News
Viggo Mortensen will bring Captain Alatriste to life in the film directed by Agust’n D’az Yanes. He will play a curious main character from a series of five exciting books created by the writer Arturo Pérez Reverte, The New York actor, born in Manhattan 46 years ago, became famous for his role as Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings saga and has become an authentic sword-lover since the filming of this trilogy. To prepare for his role, Mortensen has chosen the National Fencing Center in Madrid, where he will take lessons with the foil master Jesús Esperanza, a specialist in ancient fencing techniques. [More]
Belladonna writes: Added to audiblebeauty.net are a couple dozen more photos from Ringers screenings, including the final one this last Thursday night. Despite the drizzly weather we got a pretty good turnout, and I at least both enjoyed the film again and celebrating in the great line party atmosphere. [More]
Corky sends along yet even more images here. [More]
Jonotrek writes: Dominic Monaghan as a cast member of ‘Lost’ is featured on one of six covers of TV Guide in the US this week. There is a story on Lost inside of the magazine too. You can purchase all six covers here. [TV Guide] [More]
Jackie writes: It is not yet refelected on their web site but I just got my new issue of Calabasas Magazine in the mail and Sean Astin is featured as the cover story. (February 2005) Sean and his family reside in Calabasas, in fact they are neighbors of ours. Just thought when it’s available online you might be interested in providing the link on your wonderful site. Keep an eye out here and it should be appearing soon. [calabasasmag.com]
Film bosses are plotting a sequel to animated movie ‘The Magic Roundabout’ – even though the first installment has not yet been released. The creators of the $24.3 million (GBP12.8 million) film – based on the cult 1960s BBC TV series – have already signed up Sir Ian McKellen to return as the voice of Zebedee and Kylie Minogue to reprise her vocal duties for Florence. [More]