Longtime Barli regular TheBursar posted this email from somewhere upon the Seven Seas. He misses us, y’all, so send him an e-mail : )

Hello, friends at Barli’s!!!

It is I, the intrepid sailor-type Bursar, making our world just that much safer from the terrorists that try to destroy our lives.

I am sittng in my workcenter on the USS George Washington, cursing the Internet block that prevents all us lower enlisted folk from the Net, and, unfortunately, Barli’s.

So, I have to talk to y’all through E-Mail. If anyone wants to yell at me, my E-Mail is Hillr@GeorgeWashington.navy.mil

That is, if anyone even REMEMBERS me…..I haven’t been in the place for almost a year now….been kinda busy, what with the whole military thing and all. Life at sea isn’t bad…..but it isn’t very good, either. I miss you all terribly.

Thanx for the E-Mail…this is FUNNY!! I’ve run into a coupla people here on the ship that are envious of my Tolkien Top 10 T-Shirt. They like it, and I have to tell them all about theonering.net and all you wonderful people! Thanx for thinking about me while I am at sea, and please feel free to write to me whenever!!!

Your buddy, The Bursar

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The LOTR Day Event in Alpharetta, GA had a great turn-out, including several home-schooled kids. They finished their schoolwork up early so as to be able to participate, and participate they did! One lucky kid, 11 year old Alden Lathrop of Atlanta, actually won one of the door prizes. His nifty banner poster was the envy of all!

The staff of the Alpharetta Barnes and Noble put on a nice presentation, including a few Tolkien Trivia questions out of Houghton-Mifflin’s pocket sized Tolkien Trivia book. The 20 minute video was very well received by all in attendance. The Rayner Unwin portion of the video was poignant, and PJ’s comment about now understanding why no one had ever tried to film three movies at the same time drew laughs from all. From the scenes of Rivendell and Hobbiton it is quite obvious that PJ, the artists, craftsmen and actors all have the utmost respect for JRR Tolkien’s works; and I thank each and every one of them for this.

Several of us Ringers were there. Zorina, SamGamgee7, Formula409 and myself had made plans to meet for the event. While there we met 12milecousin, who is a regular visitor to the site. I think we can all agree to a few things: the video was too short, the new movie guide and visual companion are both gloriously illustrated with images of FOTR, those banners rocked and December 19th is still too far away!

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From: Mark

Here are two new covers for your MediaWatch! Film Review Special #37 and Xpose #62 have just been produced. Film Review and Xpose are just two of our range of TV/film related titles. These are the first covers (and cover features) we’ve devoted to LoTR, but there should be at least one more before the release of Fellowship…

I’ll be preparing web editions with more extensive details, and some excerpts online, next week – but I wanted to try to alert my favorite LoTR fansite before anyone else did www.visimag.com/filmreview/ www.visimag.com/xpose/
are showing the covers now (Scroll down the latter for X62 cover). I’ll be able to send issue-specific links next week once the editions are up.

These details of each issue’s coverage are taken from our online stores, accessible from the two links above:

Xposé #62, December 2001 (Reference #X62) To be published November 15 2001 The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring – 16-page centre section on the fantasy movie of the year. Includes an introduction to JRR Tolkien’s Middle-Earth and interviews with director Peter Jackson, Ring-Bearer Elijah Wood (alias Frodo Baggins) and Tolkien expert Brian Sibley, author of The Official Movie Guide and the acclaimed 1981 BBC Radio adaptation. Plus 10 Things… About Christopher Lee, alias fallen wizard Saruman.

Film Review Special #37, Fantasy 2001 (Reference #FS37) Now available Cover: Lord of the Rings: Elijah Wood as Frodo. This issue: a guide to myriad realms mysterious and magical! [100 pages, including] Lord of the Rings (12 pages) – Visit Middle-earth, in Fellowship with John Rhys Davies (Gimli), Orlando Bloom (Legolas) and Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn). With Christopher Lee (Saruman) on why this production is a cinema landmark, Liv Tyler on walking like an elf-princess as Arwen, and a detailed look at the Games Workshop’s battle and strategy LoTR tie-ins.

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Thanks to John P we have this great article from ‘Box Office Magazine’. Enjoy the great ELijah Wood (Frodo) interview!

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From: LlamaStick

Great Site, been hooked for two years! Here’s a pretty close transcript of the ITV1 GMTV piece this morning. Nothing new, but thought you might like it anyway:

The segment was fairly short, starting with the first few scenes of the most recent trailer, and a voice over introduction.

Interviewer Voice Over: ‘LOTR is an epic adventure in every sense, all three films were made over eighteen months, and the land of Elves, Hobbits and Wizards was painstakingly recreated in New Zealand. Elijah Wood plays the hobbit Frodo, who is given the task of destroying the all powerful ring which is being hunted by the dark lord Sauron.

EW: I expected before we when down there that we would be taking a journey that would mirror that of the journey of the book, and it was exactly that. We went through all of these emotional changes, and we grew as individuals just as the hobbits do. It was an incredible experience, and I knew it would be like that, but I think it was even more fantastic and profund than I anticipated.

Interviewer : Did it ever get confusing, fighting things that aren’t there?

EW: Missed the mark slightly? I’m sure that happened a few times.

BB: I remember a great time doing this sequence, the sequence where Frodo was hiding from the cave troll. There was a guy with a polystyrene cup walking around with a stick! (Laughing)

DM: We had to throw stones at this thing!

Interviewer: ..and you had to learn Elfish?

Liv Tyler: Elvish.

Interviewer: Elvish!

LT: Elvish passage

Interviewer: It’s so lyrical.

LT: Beautiful. Such a dream to do, ‘cos I can’t really speak any other languages, and it was so nice for me
to have complete conversations in the film in the language, it was so beautiful, it made me feel really fancy.

Interviewer: So you’re going to go out to the pub now with your mates now and start spouting into Elvish?

LT: I do, if I have a couple of drinks, I’m like – I can speak Elvish!

John Rhys-Davies, and Viggo Mortensen>

Interviewer: Eighteen months of battles, of fires, magic, and elves, you must have been shattered by the time it got to finishing?

VM: Yes, but don’t you wish you’d been there?

JR-D: These are going to be some of the greatest films of all time, and anyone who’s had any part in them has actually had their finger on a moment of cinema history. They’re magical. You haven’t seen a thing yet.

Interviewer: He [JR-D] said it to me, it’s going to be bigger than Star Wars.

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