From Galadrielle:
As a Korean runemaster, I thought perhaps you may be interested to know what the Korean alphabet (h’an-gle) said in those posters of yours which I delighted me exceedingly. As you probably already noted, they both say the same thing. Here I will give you my best rendering line by line:
the one who takes (appropriates, conquers, wins) the last ring
SHALL WIELD ALL THE POWER!
Emperor of the Ring
“Lord of the Rings” ring party (scouts, agents, missionaries)
Now I will give my rendering word by word, as ordered in each sentence:
Last ring taking person
ALL POWER WIELD SHALL BE!
Ring (separated by middle word “oui” – propositional counterpart of “of”)
Emperor
“Lord of the Rings” ring party/scouts
Grammatically, Korean sentences are arranged in an order opposite of English. The word “banzi” in the Korean website address stands for “ring”, except it isn’t a faithful phonetic rendition. There are no Z sounds in Korean. The right pronunciation for the Korean word RING is not “banzi” but “bahn-ji”. All Korean vowels are pronounced short and abrupt. Each block of letters represents a syllable, by the way. And Korean alphabet is a phonetic alphabet, rendered as it’s pronounced. Unlike Chinese, they are not characters depicting abstraction or a concrete object.
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Ringer Spy Jaimie from musingsofviggo.com sends along these great scans from February and March issue of ‘Dreamwatch’ Magazine.
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Ok, I thought that Chinese film poster was cool, but that was before I saw these Korean ones!
Loorien Lee, from our comunity fan site has sent along these great pieces of art, very nice!
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Ringer Spy Lee sends along these scans from ‘Starburst Magazine’ Take a look!
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Ringer Spy Rachel sends along this scan from ‘Total Film’ Magazine. I’m not too sure where they get the idea that Harry Knowles was the only reporter allowed on the set…Tehanu was there twice and our very own Quickbeam was on the various sets for a week, with Ian McKellen as his tour guide. Ah well, I guess Harry forgot to tell them (yeah right).
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WB launches film foray with $160 mil deal
NEW YORK — The WB Network is going to the movies — big time.
Although New Line and the WB were still discussing the fine print on Thursday, WB has agreed to pay at least $75 million for New Line’s “Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” and its two forthcoming sequels in a 10-year shared window with Turner Broadcasting’s TBS and TNT.
The total license fee for all three could end up at $160 million or more, depending on the box-office performance of the sequels; “Fellowship of the Ring” has already grossed $258 million, and it’s still tracking.
The “Rings” transaction is a family affair because the WB, New Line and Turner are all divisions of AOL Time Warner. But the deal is by far the biggest movie buy ever engineered by the WB. Insiders say the WB is so juiced by the pickup of the “Rings” trilogy that it’s planning to go after more theatrical movies in their first network window.
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