Will writes: I was in parliment today (NZ) and during parlimently questions Jim Anderton (minister of economic development) mentioned LOTR’s winning 5 BAFTA’s. He also went on to mention something about WETA‘s Richard Taylor doing some kind of workshop in Christchurch.
He mentioned it would be open to the public and for those who miss it, it will be broadcast on TV
I did a bit more investigation and found out all I could about what WETA is doing in Christchurch.
It is to do with business development and innovation. And will include a public forum entitled “Lord of the Rings – the Innovation Story”. The following is a summary of when and where this takes place.
Event : Innovate
Date : 5 March – 7 March 2002
Venue : Christchurch Convention Centre and Christchurch Town Hall, with some events open to the public.
Midday (12pm) on Wednesday 6th 2002 – Public Forum – Richard Taylor will discuss Lord of the RIngs
The programme only has this forum from 12 till 1.15pm.
Also about the TV broadcast, it will be broadcast live on SKY News (Channel 25 only on Digital) and on http://www.nzoom.com
For any other information visit http://www.innovate.org.nz
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Somebody who reads German could confirm this story for us from Christoph, called “What happens when someone desperately tries to cash in on the hype – and fails”
Christoph continues: “We all laughed when a “London Sunday Times” author used the LOTR-synopsis from the Tolkien Sarcasm Page to spare himself the tedious task of doing research (a.k.a. reading). [Everyone remember the infamous ‘Queen Beruthiel, evil sister to Galadriel’ gaffe?] But now, there is something better: a complete book on Tolkien (named “Tolkines Welt” = Tolkien’s world) which includes a synopsis of his main work. COMPLETELY taken from the sarcasm site (translated, of course). The publisher has withdrawn the book and apologized…
The whole story is on Tolkiengesellschaft tho’ it’s in German. A good translation would be appreciated by TORN!
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So what’s the name of Arwen’s sword, Gwemegil or Hadhathang? We got this info from a reliable source in the world of Elvish linguistics:
“Decipher did not have a name for Arwen’s sword from New Line, and was going to make one up; the name they had come up with didn’t mean what they thought it did. I supplied “Gwemegil”. I cannot
speak for Decipher vis-a-vis their relationship with New Line regarding this sort of thing, but if “Hadhathang” is what David Salo had the propmeisters inscribe on the sword, then that is its name. “Gwemegil” just means “maiden-sword,” so perhaps it can be taken as a description rather than a name.”
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Arien just wrote in to report on the NY LOTR event.
“Hi! Just got back from the Q&A Discussion event at Barnes and Noble in NYC. It was really great and all too short. I’ll post a longer report soon, but here are some quick hits that are very very interesting… WARNING: THERE ARE SPOILERS AHEAD!!!
– The TTT trailer will be added on to FOTR on March 22nd! In one month! 😀
-Shelob will be in ROTK, not TTT.
-There is NO Scouring of the Shire. PJ stated that the little scene in Galadriel’s Mirror was the “homage” to it.
-The Gollum/Frodo/Sam relationship will be “intensified.”
That’s all I remember off the top of my head for now.”
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“Hi, we just got back from the premiere in Tokyo. I’m an American and my hubby is in the military. I took my three kids and were all very excited with plans to see the actors. We all took our LOTR Trilogy hoping to get some autographs. Based on all the other wonderful reports from around the world we thought we would stand a good chance to see them up close and possibly get an autograph or two.
My 7 year old looked so cute in his LOTR T-shirt and he was wearing the one ring! He was ready for Elijah and Orli to come by! My two daughters were also very excited. My kids were the only children there. We didn’t have tickets to get inside, but that was OK if we could just catch a glimpse of the guys and Liv. We did get some glimpses, and are thankful for that, but unfortunately the actors were kept completely away from the fans. They didn’t even get to walk past us. We were lined up and in the front. They hurried the actors upstairs to meet with the press, after the premier started and then quickly hurried them away. We couldn’t believe they wouldn’t even get to walk past us!
We hurried downstairs (the premier was on the 9th floor of a big building) and ran after the crowd. We stood on the sidewalk and got to see them all leaving the parking garage. The windows were tinted very darkly and we could barely make out the actors inside, but they were all waving! From all I have read Elijah, Dom, Orli, Liv and the rest have always been very gracious and happy to communicate with their fans. It is too bad they were kept from being able to interact with us at all. I know they all read your website and I hope you’ll share my report for them and others to read. We tried to get some photos although the quickness of them “out the elevator” and “8 feet away into the stairwell” didn’t give lots of opportunities! Dom came out first and we were so shocked we didn’t even get to yell his name before he was gone. I did yell Elijah’s name and he looked over his shoulder, smiled and waved. It was just all so fast. “
PatmosKat
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A few days ago we heard about the name of Arwen’s sword, which was given as “Hadhathang.”[More] Since then a few people have written in to dispute that. Mark said “Not to dispute the translation work of your correspondant Galadhorn, but in the Decipher card game from the film Arwen’s sword is named “Gwemegil”. I would have to defer to another in the translation of this name, but since Decipher must clear all names and images with the licensor, which in this case would be New Line, they do tend to be what would be called canon references.”
On a related note, Chris wrote in to say that he was looking through one of the LOTR visual companion type books and noticed something: The sword that Elrond wields during the Last Alliance and the sword Arwen wields during the Flight to the Ford seem strikingly similar. “I was wondering if anybody else noticed this. ‘Cause my guess is that they are the same. Sort of a family hand-me-down sword.”
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