Today, IGN have released the beautiful pre-rendered trailer of Sierra’s Fellowship of the Ring game for the XBox, shown at this years E3 convention in May. However, there’s one snag: you must be a member of IGN Insider to see the trailer.
However, here is the description of the trailer itself, straight from IGN, along with some beautiful pictures they published with their article.
“Today we are able to bring you a high-res, direct feed, version of the pre-rendered trailer that was being showcased on the giant video wall at E3. While there is no gameplay footage shown, everything in the trailer is using the same art style that you could see in all of the production art for the game.
From the Silver Screen to a monitor near you
Irish Independent, Monday, 30 July, 2001
“Anyone over the age of 15 will remember the excitement of going to the cinema and getting a glimpse of the movies that were opening in the coming weeks. Those two-minute trailers were the film studios big chance to entice you back to the cinema, and they usually managed to achieve this by showing the best two minutes of a movie.
Today, the marketing executives in Hollywood are no longer relying solely on those precious minutes when people were distracted by their popcorn or the people talking in the next aisle. They have, very successfully, harnessed the Internet – not only to promote movies that are launching next month but to get fans fanatical about movies that haven’t even begun shooting.”
“The Lord of the Rings doesn’t open in cinemas until the end of the year but already it’s estimated over six million Tolkien fans downloaded a trailer of the movie within a week of it going live last year – 1.7 million within the first 24 hours. Hundreds of unofficial sites are also doing their bit to promote the movie.”
“The Lord of the Rings“
www.lordoftherings.net
You’ll certainly need a bit of time to find your way around the site, simply because there is so much going on. Newcomers to the whole Middle-Earth phenomenon might just be a little confused – to say the least. But if you feel left out that you’re not one of the millions who scrambled to download the trailer, pop along and get a feel for what is undoubtedly the only movie people will be talking about over the coming months – apart from Harry Potter, of course.”
Chalk Farm Galley presents “The Tolkien Art of Ted Nasmith” an exhibition of original paintings by Ted Nasmith
20th September to 28th October
Greetings,
Chalk Farm Gallery is pleased to announce it’s 4th exhibition of world-renowned Tolkien artist, Canadian born Ted Nasmith. The exhibition opens on the 20th September with the private view . Ted Nasmith will be here in the UK for the exhibition, at the opening he will be teaming up with musician Casper Reiff from the Tolkien ensemble to present a selection of songs inspired by the author. The show continues until the 28th October 2001 and if his previous exhibitions are anything to go by, we are expecting a sell out show.
Ted Nasmith has worked on many Tolkien publications including “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy and has had full calendars of his art commissioned by Harper Collins. The 2002 Tolkien calendar “The Fellowship of the Ring” is out now, and these original paintings will form part of his exhibition. He is currently working on the 2003 “The Two Towers” and the 2004 “The Return of the King”. Ted was the sole illustrator of the recently released “The Silmarillion”, and perhaps his greatest accolade was the approval given to his work by Tolkien himself before his death.
Kind Regards
Paul McGuinness
Lance and some folks who worked on stunts for LOTR (Lance was Sean Bean’s [Boromir] stunt double). They sent us a great pic of the stunt crew during a break from a practice stunt in NZ. Take a look, more pics to come.
Hi from Lance and the Lord of the rings Stunt team, we are all New Zealanders born and bread. We all have had a wonderful time working on this incredible trilogy. This is a photo of myself and a few of the other stuntman rehearsing with Bob Anderson (sword master) behind the Copthorn hotel Queenstown, rehearsing for the Amon Hen scene.Looking forward to LOTR. Especially Balin’s Tomb when Boromir Aragorn and the rest of the fellowship go head to head with the troll and the goblins. Some outstanding sword work involved there.As for Helms Deep well what can I say, after about 4 Months total filming, you really did fell like you had been in a real battle, some fantastic stunts there from the boys. High falls, from the top of helms deep wall, 38 foot drop to the mats.I thank god every day for allowing me to be part of this fantastic story. Talk to you soon.
Seems like the folks at EW Online don’t like our interest in LOTR. Either that or they seem to notice how thier hits go up when they say something bad about LOTR, or anything at all…ah well.
”Lord of the Rings” fans
Ever since Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema announced they’d be turning the J.R.R. Tolkein trilogy into a movie, diehard fans’ heads have been spinning like 12-sided dice wondering how the movie could do justice to the Hobbit lore. There is even a sense of veiled threat to their endless quest for info (”If you’ve done ANYTHING to upset the legacy of Gandalf, so help me…”). All these fanatics should just put down their mouses and relax. We’re five months away from the first installment’s premiere, but it’s all been shot, and all the emoticons in the world aren’t going to change Jackson’s vision. Just take some time off and develop some other interests. Oh, and bitching about whether Chris Columbus was the right director for the Harry Potter movie doesn’t count as ”other interests.”
(ah because we must all be computer nerds because we like LOTR….I see -Xo)
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Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn)
28 Days (2000)
Walk on the Moon, A (1999) UK 
Thin Red Line, The (1998) UK 
Psycho (1998) UK
Prophecy, The (1995)
Crew, The (1994)
American Yakuza (1994)
Young Americans, The (1993)
Boiling Point (1993) UK
Two Small Bodies (1993)
Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990) UK
Young Guns II (1990) UK
Liv Tyler (Arwen)
Cookie’s Fortune (1999)
Onegin (1999) UK
Plunkett & Macleane (1999)
Can’t Hardly Wait (1998) UK
That Thing You Do! (1996)
Stealing Beauty (1996)
Ian Holm (Bilbo)
Joe Gould’s Secret (2000)
Last of the Blonde Bombshells, The (2000) (TV)
eXistenZ (1999)
Alice Through the Looking Glass (1999) (TV)
Fifth Element, The (1997) UK
Life Less Ordinary, A (1997)
Naked Lunch (1991)
Brazil (1985) UK
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) UK
Alien (1979) UK
Shout at the Devil (1976)
Young Winston (1972) UK
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) UK
Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) UK
Fixer, The (1968) UK
Sean Bean (Boromir)
GoldenEye (1995) UK
Black Beauty (1994) UK
Patriot Games (1992) UK
How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
Stormy Monday (1988)
Martyn Sanderson (Bree Gatekeeper)
Ned Kelly (1970)
Hugo Weaving (Elrond)
Matrix, The (1999) UK
Interview, The (1998)
Babe (1995) UK
Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The (1994) UK
Exile (1994) UK
For Love Alone (1986)
Miranda Otto (Eowyn)
Jack Bull, The (1999) (TV) UK
Thin Red Line, The (1998) UK
David Wenham (Faramir)
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999)
Elijah Wood (Frodo)
Faculty, The (1998) UK
Good Son, The (1993)
Forever Young (1992) UK
Paradise (1991)
Avalon (1990) UK
Internal Affairs (1990) UK
Cate Blanchett (Galadriel)
Pushing Tin (1999)
Ideal Husband, An (1999)
Ian McKellen (Gandalf)
X-Men (2000) UK
Apt Pupil (1998) UK
Gods and Monsters (1998)
Bent (1997)
Restoration (1995)
And the Band Played On (1993) (TV)
Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
Alfred the Great (1969) UK
John Rhys-Davies (Gimli)
Au Pair (1999) (TV)
Secret of the Andes (1998) UK
Cats Don’t Dance (1997)
Tusks (1990)
Firewalker (1986)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, A (1979) UK
Andy Serkis (Gollum)
Topsy-Turvy (1999)
Among Giants (1998) UK
Harry Sinclair (Isildur)
Heavenly Creatures (1994)
Dominic Monaghan (Merry)
Hostile Waters (1997) (TV)
Bruce Spence (Mouth of Sauron)
Cars That Ate Paris, The (1974) UK
Sean Astin (Sam)
Icebreaker (1999)
Kimberly (1999)
Bulworth (1998) UK
Dish Dogs (1998)
Encino Man (1992) UK
Toy Soldiers (1991) UK
Memphis Belle (1990)
Staying Together (1989)
War of the Roses, The (1989) UK
White Water Summer (1987) UK
Goonies, The (1985)
Christopher Lee (Saruman)
Sleepy Hollow (1999) UK
Jinnah (1998) UK
Tale of the Mummy (1998) UK
Death Train (1993) (TV) UK
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Safari 3000 (1982)
Serial (1980)
1941 (1979)
Arabian Adventure (1979)
Return from Witch Mountain (1978) UK
Four Musketeers, The (1974) UK
Creeping Flesh, The (1973)
Nothing But the Night (1972)
Vengeance of Fu Manchu, The (1967) UK
Psycho-Circus (1966) UK
Gorgon, The (1964)
City of the Dead, The (1960)
Cockleshell Heroes, The (1955)
Moulin Rouge (1952) UK
Crimson Pirate, The (1952)
Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951) UK
Bernard Hill (Theoden)
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1999) UK
True Crime (1999) UK
Loss of Sexual Innocence, The (1999) UK
Wind in the Willows, The (1996/I) UK
Gandhi (1982) UK
Brad Dourif (Wormtongue)
Shadow Hours (2000)
Storytellers, The (1999) UK
Bride of Chucky (1998) UK
Urban Legend (1998) UK
Murder in the First (1995)
Death Machine (1995)
Trauma (1993)
Body Parts (1991) UK
Cerro Torre: Schrei aus Stein (1991)
Hidden Agenda (1990)
Blue Velvet (1986) UK
Ragtime (1981)
Jim Rygiel (SFX)
Anna and the King (1999)
Species (1995)
Alien³ (1992)
Last of the Mohicans, The (1992)
Howard Shore (Composer)
High Fidelity (2000)
eXistenZ (1999)
Dogma (1999)
Analyze This (1999)
Game, The (1997)
That Thing You Do! (1996)
Crash (1996)
Truth About Cats & Dogs, The (1996)
Moonlight and Valentino (1995)
Ed Wood (1994)
M. Butterfly (1993)
Sliver (1993)
Guilty as Sin (1993)
Single White Female (1992)
Prelude to a Kiss (1992)
Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)
Naked Lunch (1991)
Kiss Before Dying, A (1991)
She-Devil (1989)
Big (1988)
Moving (1988)
Fly, The (1986)
After Hours (1985)
Peter Jackson (Director)
Heavenly Creatures (1994)
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