From:Josh
I’m not sure if you have recieved information about this or not so I will tell you anyway. Just recently I came across a shop in the Brisbane CBD (a major city in Australia). The shop is called Royal Selangor and is at Shop 154, The Myer Centre, Brisbane, Queensland, 4000, Australia. In it I was delighted to find a large range of crafted Pewter Silver Lord of the Rings products. It is all officially liscenced and consists of a Lord of the Rings Chess set with all major characters from LOR. There is also a range of Goblets with different characters and themes crafted in many and various ways for each respective Goblet. These Goblets are based on LOR caharacters and scenes, The Hobbit characters and scenes, and even some based on The Silmarillion. There are also shops in Sydney and Melbourne and overseas (though I’m not sure where). If you want to check out more their website is www.royalselangor.com. I also have a full colour brochure of products available if you you would like me to send it to you.
One more thing, I noticed a few weeks ago you mentioned that a new LOR board game is available in the States at Target stores. This is also the case in Australia, I just brought one from Target the other day.
Thanks, Josh
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Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn)
28 Days (2000)
Walk on the Moon, A (1999) UK 
Thin Red Line, The (1998) UK 
Perfect Murder, A (1998) UK
Psycho (1998) UK
Portrait of a Lady, The (1996)
Albino Alligator (1996)
Prophecy, The (1995)
Ruby Cairo (1993)
Young Guns II (1990) UK
Fresh Horses (1988) UK
Witness (1985)
Liv Tyler (Arwen)
Cookie’s Fortune (1999)
Plunkett & Macleane (1999)
Heavy (1995) UK
Silent Fall (1994)
Ian Holm (Bilbo)
Alice Through the Looking Glass (1999) (TV)
Simon Magus (1999/I) UK
eXistenZ (1999)
Sweet Hereafter, The (1997) UK
King Lear (1997) (TV) UK
Fifth Element, The (1997) UK
Another Woman (1988)
Return of the Soldier, The (1982)
Alien (1979) UK
Shout at the Devil (1976)
Sean Bean (Boromir)
Ronin (1998) UK
Stormy Monday (1988)
Marton Csokas (Celeborn)
Broken English (1996)
Hugo Weaving (Elrond)
Matrix, The (1999) UK
Strange Planet (1999)
Interview, The (1998)
Bedrooms and Hallways (1998)
Babe (1995) UK
Exile (1994) UK
Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The (1994) UK
Miranda Otto (Eowyn)
What Lies Beneath (2000)
Jack Bull, The (1999) (TV) UK
Thin Red Line, The (1998) UK
Last Days of Chez Nous, The (1992)
David Wenham (Faramir)
Boys, The (1997/I) UK
Elijah Wood (Frodo)
Faculty, The (1998) UK
Good Son, The (1993)
Forever Young (1992) UK
Internal Affairs (1990)
Back to the Future Part II (1989) UK
Cate Blanchett (Galadriel)
Ideal Husband, An (1999) UK
Pushing Tin (1999) UK
Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
Ian McKellen (Gandalf)
X-Men (2000)
Apt Pupil (1998) UK
Gods and Monsters (1998) UK
Shadow, The (1994) UK
Walter and June (1986) UK
Plenty (1985) UK
Alfred the Great (1969) UK
Touch of Love, A (1969)
Mark Ferguson (Gil Galad)
Every Woman’s Dream (1996) (TV)
John Rhys-Davies (Gimli)
Au Pair (1999) (TV)
Secret of the Andes (1998) UK
Bloodsport 3 (1996)
Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter, The (1993)
Seventh Coin, The (1992)
Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam (1987) (TV)
Victor/Victoria (1982)
Andy Serkis (Gollum)
Topsy-Turvy (1999)
Among Giants (1998) UK
Stephen Ure (Gorbag) *rumored*
Broken English (1996)
Harry Sinclair (Isildur)
Heavenly Creatures (1994)
Orlando Bloom (Legolas)
Wilde (1997) UK
Dominic Monaghan (Merry)
Hostile Waters (1997) (TV)
Bruce Spence (Mouth of Sauron)
Sweet Talker (1991)
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
Sean Astin (Sam)
Kimberly (1999)
Icebreaker (1999)
Deterrence (1999)
Bulworth (1998) UK
Dish Dogs (1998)
Teresa’s Tattoo (1994)
Low Life, The (1994/I)
Rudy (1993)
Encino Man (1992) UK
Toy Soldiers (1991) UK
Memphis Belle (1990)
Staying Together (1989)
War of the Roses, The (1989)
Like Father, Like Son (1987) UK
White Water Summer (1987) UK
Goonies, The (1985)
Christopher Lee (Saruman)
Tale of the Mummy (1998) UK
Jinnah (1998) UK
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Treasure Island (1990) (TV)
Safari 3000 (1982)
1941 (1979) UK
Return from Witch Mountain (1978) UK
Four Musketeers, The (1974) UK
Three Musketeers, The (1973) UK
Nothing But the Night (1972)
One More Time (1970)
Scream and Scream Again (1969)
Psycho-Circus (1966)
Gorgon, The (1964) UK
City of the Dead, The (1960)
Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1959) UK
Curse of Frankenstein, The (1957)
Dark Avenger, The (1955)
Scott of the Antarctic (1948)
Bernard Hill (Theoden)
Loss of Sexual Innocence, The (1999)
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1999) UK
True Crime (1999) UK
Shirley Valentine (1989) UK
Restless Natives (1985) UK
Bounty, The (1984)
Gandhi (1982) UK
Brad Dourif (Wormtongue)
Shadow Hours (2000)
Ghost, The (2000)
Bride of Chucky (1998) UK
Urban Legend (1998) UK
Murder in the First (1995)
Death Machine (1995)
Trauma (1993)
Amos & Andrew (1993)
Body Parts (1991) UK
Hidden Agenda (1990)
Mississippi Burning (1988)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Ragtime (1981) UK
Jim Rygiel (SFX)
102 Dalmatians (2000)
Anna and the King (1999) UK
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) UK
Starship Troopers (1997)
Scout, The (1994)
Cliffhanger (1993)
Alien³ (1992) UK
Batman Returns (1992) UK
Last of the Mohicans, The (1992)
Ghost (1990) UK
2010 (1984) UK
Howard Shore (Composer)
Cell, The (2000)
eXistenZ (1999)
Dogma (1999) UK
Analyze This (1999) UK
Truth About Cats & Dogs, The (1996)
Crash (1996) UK
Se7en (1995)
Sliver (1993) UK
Prelude to a Kiss (1992)
Single White Female (1992) UK
Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)
Postcards from the Edge (1990)
Moving (1988)
After Hours (1985) UK
Places in the Heart (1984) UK
Silkwood (1983) UK
Peter Jackson (Director)
Heavenly Creatures (1994)
To get more information, use the sites I use like:
mydigiguide.com, tv-now.com and IMDB.com
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You’ve all read the news now about John Rhys-Davies saying that his character Gimli will attempt to destroy the ring and fail. We’ve seen hints to this before.
Take a look at this image from our scrapbook. It shows some future LOTR action figures, if you take a look at Gimli you can see his action figure is poised to chop the ring in half on a small table.
The exact same table that you can see on this picture. So it seems that Gimli will attempt to destory the ring at the counsil of Elrond. Cool…’nuff said.
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From: Boston.com
Like the famous Boston dowagers, the publisher Houghton Mifflin possesses some priceless antiques. And Houghton, inevitably – and not always charitably – described as ”venerable,” knows when to polish them off, and make a few dollars in the process.
”The monkey pays the bills” used to be the watchword at Houghton’s Park Street headquarters, referring to H. A. and Margret Rey’s Curious George books, which have poured untold millions into the publisher’s coffers. This year, it is going to be different. Houghton’s trade division is spewing forth its usual line of quality fare: a memoir by John Edgar Wideman, a novel by Philip Roth. But Bilbo Baggins will be paying the bills.
Three years ago, Houghton had the idea of introducing J. R. R. Tolkien’s fabulous ”Lord of the Rings” epic to the children of the ’60s generation, who embraced the paperback trilogy almost as enthusiastically as they embraced sex, drugs, etc. (Factoid: Tolkien considered LOTR a single novel, not a trilogy. It was broken into three volumes for sales purposes.) There was talk of a ”Rings” movie, but no one knew whether it would get made, and, if it got made, whether it would be any good. ”We wanted to make sure people would get the real story by reading the books,” says Clay Harper, Houghton’s Tolkien czar.
After Houghton started gearing up, word arrived that the long-delayed LOTR movie project had finally gotten off the ground. Filmmaker Peter Jackson spent 14 months in New Zealand in 1999 and 2000 with stars Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett, and Liv Tyler, and is now preparing the first of three movies, ”The Fellowship of the Ring,” for December release. Early clips have caused a huge sensation on the Internet, and the early word of mouth, based on a 20-minute sequence, is quite positive. Yes, one could probably string together 20 good minutes of ”Pearl Harbor,” and yes, a movie about a young British boy named Potter will offer stiff competition, but the early divinations bode well for Houghton.
(Factoid: Tolkien sold the movie rights to his work in 1971 and laid down strict guidelines for their use. None of his characters could be used in scenes that were not in his books, and he enjoined Hollywood from dreaming up prequels or sequels to the epic. Potentially, this makes the as-yet-unfilmed ”The Hobbit” a very valuable property.)
Backed by a $300,000 promotion campaign, Houghton’s Tolkien sales are gaining momentum – and the real action is still to come. New Line Cinema plans to release one LOTR movie each of three coming Christmas seasons, and every order of Frodo’s Fries at Burger King (just kidding; but Burger King does own the movie tie-in promotion) will be, in effect, a mini-ad for Tolkien-ana.
”We don’t want to look like slathering opportunists who see there is a movie coming,” Harper says. Then again, fortune favors the prepared publisher. Houghton has just published a biography of Tolkien and a one-volume version of the epic with movie art. Still to come in 2001: separate movie tie-in volumes of each novel in the ”trilogy”; a reissuing of Tolkien’s ”Unfinished Tales”; a young adult version of ”The Hobbitt”; ”The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Visual Companion,” and ”The Lord of the Rings Official Movie Guide.”
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From: Odin
I was reading the biggest tabloid paper in norway this morning, and when I got to the cartoon pages I saw this:
A norwegian cartoon character called Nemi was sleeping outside the theatre in a sleeping bag when this guy from the ticket box shouted something like “hey! wake up, you can’t sleep here! I’ve told you a million times; The Lord Of The Rings doesn’t release until december!” [More]
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Thanks to Christian for the text!
Announcer: It’s not every day that we give you a preview of a film which is still months from release; it’s not every day that a studio decides to film a trilogy all at once, with $270 million. That trilogy is Lord of the Rings, based on JRR Tolkien’s books that have sold millions of copies in 40 languages around the world. New Line Cinema held a preview party for the films at this years’ Cannes Film Festival, and we were given a sneak peek at the films, and a chance to meet the cast ‘One-on-One.’
Peter Jackson: Well, I read LOTR when I was 18, and I thought at the time: Wow, I can’t wait till the film comes out, and I waited for twenty years, and I couldn’t wait any longer!
Announcer: And, after spending a year and a half in New Zealand filming the LOTR trilogy, director Peter Jackson couldn’t wait to show a select audience at Cannes 20 minutes of Lord of the Rings, and introduce his cast to the world.
Billy Boyd: The ‘Lord of the Rings’ books is a huge book in my family’s history, my father’s a huge fan, my uncle’s a huge fan, and my mother’s read the book, so it’s always been battered around in my household.
Sean Astin: I was in Los Angeles on the cell phone with my agent who said (he does a great imitation of his agent), “Honey, the, uh, Peter Jackson’s doing the LOTR Trilogy for New Line,” and, while she was talking, I turned the car around and went to Barnes and Noble, and bought my first copy of the books.
Elijah Wood: Being a part of it, being a part of the film and taking the journey, uh, for fifteen months, being immersed in the world of Tolkien and Middle Earth, how could you not be a fan?
Announcer: Before joining the ‘Middle Earth’ in New Zealand, the cast had to give up a year and a half of their lives to bring this trilogy to life.
Liv Tyler: When I first heard about it, and they offered it to me, I was, like, oh my god!, can I handle this? Just my home and my family, I’m a Cancer so I’m such a homebody, and it took me about two days and I thought, what do you mean, it’s only like a year out of your life, and that’s not very long!
Announcer: Judging by the initial reviews of the first twenty minutes shown here at Cannes, one of the greatest stories ever told, may well become one of the greatest movies ever shown. . . Look for Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, to open in US cinemas December 19th.
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I think the publicity LOTR is getting is great, I live in Zambia, right in the middle of Africa, and I still get pretty regular updates on TV! Way to go New Line!
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