From: Kimi

There is a chance we won’t have to wait a week longer than the US, depending on just when and where the premier is (probably Wellington).

“Filming for the 360-million dollar budget trilogy finished in December, and the films are tipped to be bigger than “Star Wars”.

Ms Leigh says part two of the trilogy “The Two Towers” will be released around Christmas 2002, and the final film, “The Return of the King”, will be released a year later.”

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J NZ sends us some screencaptures from a video they took of Edoras last year. One of the images seems to show a helicopter with a camera mounted on the front. Check them out!

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Well, well, well! Remember all the talk about poor ol’ Glorfindel being ousted from FotR because more room was needed for Arwen? A source close to the production says this is not entirely true! It seems Glorfindel will indeed be at the Ford of Bruinen, in a role slightly modified from the text. We have heard that Glorfindel gives Arwen his horse, Asfaloth, and bids her to hurry on across with Frodo. He then remains with Aragorn to harry the Ringwraiths into the waters. But wait! There’s more! Rumor has it that Glorfindel is actually at the Council of Elrond, as we read in the book.

So! Glorfindel’s in? Where does Arwen come from? Is there any chance Bombadil will make a cameo, after all? Mr. Jackson, if you could, please drop us an email and help set these rumors straight! ; )

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Ringer Spy Jason sends along these great pics from the days of old when the Haywards Hill Quarry was Minas Tirith. Check them out.

I took these shots early winter of last year…had to hike miles to get up around behind the set on the mountain behind the quarry.

I drove all over both the islands inquiring and collecting more info about the project. AWESOME STUFF!

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A small excerpt from a Brisbane newspaper:

Another unique experience was working on the elaborate and much anticipated Lord of the Rings. Both of these films (LotR and the Gift) were uncharted territory, such as in the case of Rings dealing with blue-screen special effects and prosthetics.

“It was like stepping into a video game for me.” She talks enthusiastically about Galadriel.

“I basically did it so I could have the ears. They were so sweet, because they actually made little bronze castings of my ears. I loved all that stuff.”

Yet again, Blanchett adopts a royal posture, but this time she’s not speaking the Queen’s English; she’s speaking the Queen’s Elvish.

“Tolkien actually wrote a language called Elvish, and there are, to my astonishment, Elvish experts, people who speak fluent Elvish.”

She says the language is “really beautiful, similar to Welsh and a melange of other Celtic languages.”

Thanks to Kerryn for the tip!

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From: Flaunt Magaine

Tyler, admittedly, is maybe a bit giddy lately over her relationship, partly because The Lord of the Rings has kept her away from home so much.

“I think I felt more homesick than anybody else, just by nature of how my character is,” she sighs. “The rest of the actors are all kind of together on this journey and my character is not.”

Tyler plays Arwen, the paramour of Aragorn (played by Viggo Mortensen) in the epic story. The rest of the cast includes Elijah Wood, Cate Blanchett, and Ian McKellen. “I had no idea what I was taking on,” Tyler continues. “I thought, Oh I can handle it, it’s only a year out of my life. Then again, the thought of being employed for a year was really nice.”

Tyler can’t divulge much about the film for fear of being attacked by an army of hobbits (direcor Peter Jackson, anyway). She does say that her story line diverts from the letter of the book and instead is drawn from the trilogy’s appendix. Tyler is in awe over how Jackson poured excruciatingly over every detail of the mythology surrounding the books, to the point they made the actorts learn a new language spoken by its characters-Elvish.

“It’s an amazing thing, really,” she gushes, “It’s a legitimate language. There are only a certain amount of people in the world who can speak it, like Oxford professors and what not. It’s such a beautiful language too, it’s really brilliant.” Asked to speak a few lines, Tyler obliges and though the words pouring out sound like gibberish, she speaks them delicately, fluidly, and it sounds like a gentler version of French done with a crisp New Zealand accent. Tyler translates, “I said, ‘Now my Lord, winter has not yet come. Would you before your time leave your people?’ And the last one I said was, ‘I’ll take him. I’m the fastest rider.'”

Thanks to Baffled for the tip!

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