With ROTK around the corner the promotion wagon is going full tilt. Here is a quick rundown on all things Rings on the small screen leading up to the release!
All appearances are subject to change.
December 13th: Elijah Wood to host ‘SNL’ on NBC (11:30PM)
December 14th: LOTR on ‘Page to the Screen’ BRAVO (6:00AM & 3:30PM) December 14th: Ian McKellen on ‘Inside the Actors Studio’ BRAVO (1:00PM) December 14th: Cate Blanchett on ‘Bravo Profiles’ BRAVO (2:30PM) December 14th: Cate Blanchett on ‘Inside the Actors Studio’ BRAVO (8:00PM & 12:00AM)
December 15th: Liv Tyler on ‘The Late Show with David Letterman’ CBS (11:35PM)
December 16th: Liv Tyler on ‘Good Morning America’ ABC (7:00AM) December 16th: Liv Tyler on ‘Live! with Regis & Kelly’ ABC (10:00AM) December 16th: Liv Tyler on ‘TRL’ MTV (5:00PM)
December 17th: Elijah Wood on ‘Good Morning America’ ABC (7:00AM) December 17th: Elijah Wood on ‘Live! with Regis & Kelly’ ABC (10:00AM) December 17th: Elijah Wood on ‘Late Night with Conan O’Brien’ NBC (12:35AM)
December 18th: Elijah Wood on ‘The Early Show’ CBS (7:00AM) December 18th: Sean Astin on ‘Good Morning America’ ABC (7:00AM)
December 19th – 21st: Starz will be airing nothing but LOTR Movies
Lea writes: Hey guys! Just wanted to give you the skinny on the clip which premiered during tonight’s episode of Smallville:
Frodo and Sam and struggling up a cliff; Frodo manages, with great difficulty, to wrestle himself onto a ledge. Gollum helps him up, all the while whispering to him about how the “fat hobbit” secretly wants to take the ring. He hisses “The fat hobbit will ask for the precious very soon, you will see…” or something to that effect. Frodo is evidently so ill and overtaken by the ring at this point that he believes Gollum’s lie and casts a suspicious glare down at Sam. Both hobbits, especially Frodo, looked appropriately exhausted.
Thanks for the awesome work! Only one more week to go!
The t-shirt department of TheOneRing.net reports that as of yesterday, all shirts ordered by Dec. 7, were shipped via U.S. priority mail.
Most shirts should arrive by Thursday and if they don’t show up by Friday, please email Tshirts@TheOneRing.net to check your order’s status. We can track all packages but please be sure to include shipping date and purchaser’s name with all inquiries. Due to high demand, we were sold out of the original run of shirts and just received the new printing Monday, so some orders were delayed. We apologize for that, but all shirts are now in the mail.
There are still plenty of shirts remaining in blue and white in medium, large, x-large and xx-large but none in size small. They may not arrive in time for line party activities but they look fantastic and will be wonderful for 2nd, 3rd and 4th showings!
More tickets have showed up in the inbox. So… here we have it, ELEVEN ticket offerings, including some VERY BIG CITIES.
PLEASE READ EACH TICKET ANNOUNCEMENT CAREFULLY! Some of our offerings have “special circumstances.”
Please include your e-mail address, real name, and phone number in your response.
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Mississauga, Ontario This offering is for ONE ticket to the Famous Players Coliseum in Mississauga, Ontario. The first person to e-mail maegwen@theonering.net with the following subject line will be put into contact with the ticket seller. The price is $49.95 (Canadian) + postage. The subject line MUST read: “Mississauga Single Ticket Please”
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Mississauga, Ontario This offering is for TWO tickets to the Famous Players Coliseum in Mississauga, Ontario. The first person to e-mail maegwen@theonering.net with the following subject line will be put into contact with the ticket seller. The price is $49.95 (Canadian) + postage. The subject line MUST read: “Pair of Ontario Tickets.”
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Woodbridge, Ontario This offering is for TWO tickets to the Famous Players Colossus in Woodbridge, Ontario. The first person to e-mail maegwen@theonering.net with the following subject line will be put into contact with the ticket seller. The price is $101.90 + postage. The subject line MUST read: “Wishing For Woodbridge Tickets”
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San Francisco, CA: WE HAVE A WINNER! No more e-mails please. This offering is for TWO tickets to the Loews Theaters Metreon in San Francisco, CA. The first person to e-mail maegwen@theonering.net with the following subject line will be put into contact with the ticket seller. The price is $60 + postage. The subject line MUST read: “Pair of Tickets in San Francisco.”
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San Francisco, CA: WE HAVE A WINNER! No more e-mails please. This offering is for ONE ticket to the Loews Theaters Metreon in San Francisco, CA. The first person to e-mail maegwen@theonering.net with the following subject line will be put into contact with the ticket seller. The price is $30 + postage. The subject line MUST read: “Single Ticket in San Francisco.”
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Nashville, TN: WE HAVE A WINNER! No more e-mails please. This offering is for ONE ticket to the Carmike Thoroughbred 20 Cinema in Nashville, TN. The first person to e-mail maegwen@theonering.net with the following subject line will be put into contact with the ticket seller. The price is $45 + postage. The subject line MUST read: “Take me to Nashvile.”
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Vancouver, BC: WE HAVE A WINNER! No more e-mails please. This offering is for TWO tickets to the Capital 6 in Vancouver, BC. The first person to e-mail maegwen@theonering.net with the following subject line will be put into contact with the ticket seller. The price is $101.90 (Canadian) + postage. The subject line MUST read: “Vancouver Tickets Please.”
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New York, NY: WE HAVE A WINNER! No more e-mails please. This offering is for TWO tickets to the Loews E Walk 42nd Street in New York, NY. The first person to e-mail maegwen@theonering.net with the following subject line will be put into contact with the ticket seller. The price is $60 + postage. The subject line MUST read: “Take Me Out to the NYC Trilogy.”
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Boise, ID This offering is for TWO tickets to the Boise Stadium 21 in Boise, ID. The first person to e-mail maegwen@theonering.net with the following subject line will be put into contact with the ticket seller. The price is $70 + postage. The subject line MUST read: “Begging for Boise Tickets.”
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Memphis, TN: WE HAVE A WINNER! No more e-mails please. This offering is for ONE ticket to the Malco Paradiso in Memphis, TN. The first person to e-mail maegwen@theonering.net with the following subject line will be put into contact with the ticket seller. The price is $25.37 + postage. The subject line MUST read: “Must Win Memphis Tickets.”
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Spokane WA: WE HAVE A WINNER! No more e-mails please. This offering is for ONE ticket to the AMC Theatre in Spokane WA. The first person to e-mail maegwen@theonering.net with the following subject line will be put into contact with the ticket seller. The price is $26 + postage. The subject line MUST read: “Seeking Spokane Tickets”
I love the site and wanted to contribute a report about seeing the ROTK preview screening on Fri Dec 5th in Palm Springs, CA (a KCET benefit event). I also have a small concern about the movie that I hope you can forward to the appropriate people involved with the film.
1st my concern about Return of the King: There were quite a few scenes where the characters were speaking in Elvish and there were no english subtitles on display. I’m not talking the obvious lack of subtitles when Aragorn says “Thank You” in elvish. I’m talking about major sequences (ie: multiple sentences) between Aragorn & Elrond, and another scene between Elrond & Arwen.
The Sir Ian McKellen Report: We were treated to a wonderful 60 minute discussion with Sir Ian McKellen, and he was charming! The highlight of the interview came when Ian was asked to perform some Shakespeare “on the spot”…he was very game and did a great job.
The Movie Showing: The highlight of this evening was to see Return of the King with others who love this epic film as much as I do. The audience was so excited, clapping & laughing & crying. It was a wonderful experience. Shelob’s lair is better than the book, in my opinion!
Dr. Amy Sturgis, a Belmont University professor of science fiction/fantasy studies, media studies, and Native American studies, will present a very special multimedia talk on J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, on the evening of December 11. Dr. Sturgis teaches a course at Belmont titled J.R.R. Tolkien in History, Political Thought, and Literature. The public is welcome to attend at no charge.
“The link that some draw between childhood and fantasy is, according to J.R.R. Tolkien, an accident of recent history,” says Sturgis, previewing her December 11 presentation at Belmont, titled Tolkien’s Fairy-Stories: A Higher Form of Art. “As a scholar, J.R.R. Tolkien studied the history and purpose of the genre he termed ‘fairy-stories’ and found it to be the best vehicle for communicating serious, adult, even life-changing truths.”
Sturgis’s presentation is scheduled for 6:30 p.m., December 11, in the Multimedia Hall in the Bunch Library on the Belmont campus.
Dr. Sturgis graduated with her B.A. from Belmont University and earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in intellectual history from Vanderbilt University. She has written two books and co-authored a third in the field of political history and has presented research in the field of science fiction/fantasy studies before such organizations as the Media Studies Working Group, the International Conference on Medievalism, and the Mythopoeic Society. Her articles have appeared in several journals and magazines. She also regularly teaches summer seminars at various colleges across the United States such as Princeton University and Bryn Mawr College.
She has been named a Scholarly Guest of Honor for The Gathering of the Fellowship event in Toronto, Canada in December 2003. This event, the largest of its kind, will bring together over 1,500 participants from more than twenty nations to celebrate the life and works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Guests include scholars, artists, musicians, filmmakers, and stars of the recent Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings trilogy of films. At The Gathering, Dr. Sturgis will present her talk entitled “Harry Potter is a Hobbit: How J.R.R. Tolkien put the Adult in Children’s Literature,” and she also will participate in the following academic panels: “Teaching Tolkien at the University Level,” “The Lord of the Rings – The Film vs. The Books,” and “The Women in Middle-earth.”
