The Houghton Mifflin stand at the NYC Book Expo was playing the preview trailer of TTT on their 41″ plasma screen over and over again (watched it about 5 times during the weekend), and they also had two flyers on their marketing campaign and how it tied the book releases and the film trailers and releases ending with TTT released in December of 2002.
What I first saw that was interesting was they had March 2002 preview trailer attached, and then below they had the line:
May 2002 – The Two Towers teaser trailer released in cinemas
I will try and get some scans to you tomorrow if you haven’t already been sent them…BUT Later on I can’t remember a specific month – (end of summer, beginning of fall), there is a SECOND teaser trailer being released. As I said, I will try and get appropriate scans for you.
News from the Speaking Clock, who writes: “In the forum at Billy Boyd’s website BillyBoyd.net “Nimrodel” has left details of a drinking song that didn’t make it to the final cut of FOTR. She says that the four hobbits sang it with Peter Jackson during an interview at Cannes last year. If, as has been promised, the Green Dragon scene is put back into the extended DVD version, maybe we’ll get to see it as well as hear it.” For those of you who missed our Cannes news coverage last year, there’s an audio file here Here’s the words – notice the song cleverly blends TWO of Tolkien’s originals, Pippin’s Bath Song that he sings at Crickhollow, and one that the hobbits sing on their walk across the Shire.
“Hey! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe. Rain may fall and wind may blow, But there still be many miles to go! Sweet is the sound of falling rain and the stream that leaps from hill to plain better than rain or rippling brook is a mug of beer inside the Took.”
News from Tunali in India, who last reported that LOTR’s run in the theatres was was being extended. But the news is better than that, even: “Well, it has continued for two weeks. That means that the movie has been in the theatres for 7 weeks!! That is quite an achievement for a Hollywood movie in India! The books are too selling like hot cakes. I can see many people roaming around with copies of THE LORD OF THE RINGS and THE HOBBIT. Tolkien has the whole of Bombay under his spell! You had told me that the LOTR:FOTR was ‘hacked into bits in India’? Well I am extremely pleased to inform you that the UNEDITED version has finally hit the screens! Here are the parts that was chopped off the movie:
1. Frodo’s ride with Gandalf in the cart. In the previous version Frodo would suddenly disappear and Gandalf would directly reach the gates of Bag End!
2. Bilbo’s conversation with Gandalf at Bag End. A considerable amount of the friends’ conversation was lost to the scissors of the editor here!
3. Gandalfs research on the ring Well, this certainly must have disapointed Gandalf!
4. The drinks at Bree. You don’t expect the hobbits to leave the inn without a drink, do you?
5. Walk with Strider in the jungle. It seemed that the hobbits were not at all bothered about skipping their ‘second breakfast’.
6. Saruman and Gandalf in the garden at Isengard. And I wondered when Saruman said his famous dialouge, “Your love for the Shire has clearly slowed your mind.”
7. Felling of the trees at Isengard. Sorry, Treebeard!
8. Stay at Rivendell and discussion betw. Gandalf and Elrond Earlier Frodo was dragged to the council of Elrond as soon as he awoke!
9. The part with Aragorn, Boromir and Arwen at Rivendell No mention of Aragorn as Isildur,s heir throughout the movie!
10. Lothlorien No Celeborn. No ‘lament for Gandalf’. The whole beauty of the place was lost.
11. Finally, at the banks of the river, the part where the fellowship realises that Frodo and Boromir was missing.
That was quite a lot,wasnt it? However none are complaining that they could not understand the movie anymore!
Haven’t seen too much info on this one: Warner Bros. has a music book (piano & voice) that has 6 of the FOTR sound-track songs: Aniron, The Prophecy, Many Meetings, Lament for Gandalf, In Dreams, and May It Be. It’s nicely balanced, as far as skill level goes – it’s neither woefully over-simplified nor hopelessly difficult. (I’m best described as a struggling pianist, so I can’t play them right off but I know I’ll be able to with some practice.) “Aniron” has quite a few flats, but “Many Meetings” has almost none. Overall I’d rank them as tricky but not impossible
The book has some nice full-page color photos – Frodo w/ Sting, Gandalf w/ lighted staff, prow of Elven swan-boat against sunrise, 2-page spread of ringwraiths, hobbits on weathertop, Saruman glaring down from top of Orthanc, and a nasty orc on the last page.
Hopefully a more skilled musician will step to the fore with a more detailed review soon. Until then I’ll just add that I highly recommend this – if you can find it any where!
“Hey there,just thought i’d mail you about my life this past week. I’ve gotten a ton of extra work on the Veronica Guerin movie being filmed here in Dublin, and yesterday, i had the pleasure of having Cate [Blanchett] stand behind me all day!
We were warned not to speak to her before filming, as it was a pub scene and there were a ton of extras there. We had to stand in front of her, shouting(miming) at a soccer match on t.v. while she talked to a crime boss behind us at the bar. it was really very weird, but cool too.
She seems to have an air of unapproachable surrounding her, but then, that mighta been in my head – I think it was, cos for me, she played Galadriel so well(& with an air so sinister, it would put anyone off) but it didn’t stop me asking her assistant to get her to sign my copy of FOTR, which she kindly did.
