William sends along three Windows Media Files featuring some great goofy LOTR themed animations. Take a look! [Cartoon 1] [Cartoon 2] [Cartoon 3]
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The January 19th edition of ‘The Screen Savers’ (on Tech TV) will feature a special on ORC! Be sure to watch (and possibly TiVo) it! [More]
Celebriel recaps some of the highlights of the Saturday sessions and events at ORC: “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us,” said Gandalf. The wizard’s wisdom was never more relevant than on Saturday at The One Ring Celebration at the Pasadena Convention Center. The day’s choices included Main Stage programs with three hobbits, three parallel programming tracks (scholars and artists, costuming, and children’s activities), photo and autograph sessions, and the costume contest and masquerade. Any vendors selling Hermione Granger’s Time-Turner™ would have done a brisk business. [More]
Elycia writes: This year’s list of Academy Award winners already has a LOTR connection. (From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) Atlanta-based Giant Studios has won a technical achievement award and in a Feb. 12 ceremony will receive an academy certificate noting the development of the company’s motion-capture technology, instrumental in the creation of Gollum in the “Lord of the Rings” movies. [More]
Obviously the next best thing to getting a plug on Oprah’s Book Club is having Peter Jackson announce he wants to make your book his next movie project. Sales of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones have exploded since the local director confirmed it will be next on his filming agenda. “We’ve increased our sales by 400 per cent,” Whitcoulls book promotions manager Dorothy Vinicombe said. [More]
The characterization may not be fair, but for 11 years the Slamdance Film Festival has been seen by many movie-industry types as merely the Sundance stepchild. And the notion is only reinforced by the two festivals’ concurrent scheduling in Park City each year, as if Slamdance is merely riding on Sundance’s considerable coattails. But as Hobbits invade this year’s festival, Slamdance may finally get the respect it deserves. Slamdance has scored what is arguably the biggest star event in Park City this year — the documentary “Ringers: Lord of the Fans,” a look at J.R.R. Tolkein fans, narrated by “Lord of the Rings” star Dominic Monaghan, who is also a star on the new hit TV series “Lost.” Monaghan is expected to be in attendance for some of the film’s screenings, along with “Rings” co-stars Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Viggo Mortensen and Billy Boyd. [More] [RINGERS: Lord of the Fans]