FrodoFan sent along these images Elijah Wood (looking very much like Tobey Maguire’s Peter Parker) visiting fans at a children’s hospitalin Prague. [More]
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TheHutt writes: Just wanted to notify, that I just finished working on a new font from “Lord of the Rings” movie – “Aniron”. This font is a replication of the typeface used in the end credits of PJs movie trilogy. The font supports Latin alphabet, numbers, punctuation, extended characters (accents) and a Cyrillic alphabet (!). The font is free for non-commercial use. The Aniron font, as well as my other font creation, the Ringbearer Font, can be downloaded on my website. [More]
ATHENS (Reuters) – The Olympic rings may be about join the Lord of the Rings in fueling a boom in the ancient but hardly fashionable sport of archery. Hollywood heart-throb Orlando Bloom and the bowman elves who invaded the screen in cinema’s version of the Tolkien trilogy has had youngsters all of a quiver; archery clubs around the world are reporting a surge in recruits. [More]
Here’s a review from The Edinburgh festival: Last year, “New Zealand’s fourth most popular folk parody act” were still late-night Fringe underdogs. This year, they are greeted like rock gods. With their superior wordplay, virtuoso musicality and superbly gormless banter, they’ve taken comedy song to a whole new level. [More]
Peter Jackson’s movie King Kong, which begins shooting in Wellington next month, will be a reunion of the director’s dream team from The Lord of The Rings. King Kong’s crew includes cinematographer Andrew Lesnie, production designer Grant Major, art director Dan Hennah, conceptual designer Alan Lee, Weta special effects whizz Richard Taylor, visual effects director Alex Funke, visual effects supervisor Joe Letteri and composer Howard Shore. [More]