ProLiteracy Worldwide is auctioning off a pair of the SOLD OUT Wizards Circle tickets to the One Ring Celebration in Pasadena, CA Jan 14-16. These tickets include a two nights stay at the Sheraton Pasadena Hotel, as well as full access to ORC with in person autographs with ELijah Wood, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd, John Rhys-Davies, Bruce Hopkins and more! though your transportation there is not covered. [More] [The Auction]
Category: Old Main News
A high school is offering a class on hobbits, dwarves and elves. Madison High School students have traded Tolstoy for J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic “The Lord of the Rings” as part of an elective English class. Their teacher, Lyle Wakefield, says he’s abandoned what can be an ordinarily stuffy approach to the language and delved into the adventure trilogy popularized by three recent films. [More]
It has been described as the worst movie ever made, but a Swiss parody of the Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy has been playing to packed cinemas across the country since it opened 10 days ago — and is set to become Switzerland’s biggest box-office hit of the year. The Ring Thing shamelessly draws its inspiration from Monty Python. Instead of Frodo it has Friedo, a bank employee who falls through the toilet of a Swiss aircraft while rehearsing his marriage proposal to his chilly boss, Heidi. [More]
Not one but two Cate Blanchett films open this Christmas Day. She stars as Katharine Hepburn in the Howard Hughes biopic ‘The Aviator’ and she plays a documentry filmmaker in the comedy ‘The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou’. If you can move after the Turkey and wine, drop by the local theatre for these flicks! [Showtimes USA] [Showtimes CAN] [Showtimes UK]
Got this li’l poem in the mail as a holiday greeting from our good friend, Michael Martinez, and with his permission, we share it with you!
‘Twas the night before Yule…
‘Twas the night before Yule, when all through Bag End
No Hobbit was stirring, not even a Baggins;
The teapot was hung in the kitchen with care,
In hopes that Gandalf the Grey soon would be there. [More]
Tolkien’s mystical world of Middle Earth comes to life in a new exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum. Four-time Oscar winner Richard Taylor – one of the creative geniuses behind the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy – is describing a place where fantasies are made. It’s not Mordor, or Hogwarts, but a vast fun factory on the outskirts of New Zealand’s windy capital. [More]