Tookish managed to mug a few folks from Topps and got a scan of one of the cards from thier collection:
Category: Old Spy Reports
Ringer Spy Gilgameth sends along some great scans of New Line related bookmarks and other items given away to big companies tog et them excited. Take a look:
Some of the marketing people just came back from a meeting with the *snip* people and they gave me these because they knew I liked the movie. The images may be too big but I figured you could shrink them if you are even going to use them. Anyway, they are pretty nice. The hobbit bookmark is my personal favourite.
From: paul
Just writing to let you know that the new fellowship of the ring trailer was given an ‘exclusive first showing on uk t.v.’ during channel 4s big breakfast entertainment slot ‘snap, cackle & pop’. The trailer was shown in widescreen format and was excellent quality both in picture and sound, but annoyingly the opening “legend tells of a ring….etc” and end “….not frightened enough..” sections were missed off! Anyway i have been waiting for a tv showing since the trailers opening on the official site and at least now i can watch it again and again and again.
From: JD
Hey… I’m a fellow Tolkien fan and I love your site!! Anyway, I’m also a projectionist for an AMC theatre in the *snip* area. Today we received a letter from NewLine that was included with an extra trailer for LOTR they gave us.
The letter basically states that NewLine will be targeting Planet of the Apes for promoting LOTR, meaning the LOTR trailer will be playing in, what I would assume from the way the letter was written, theatre chains everywhere with Planet of the Apes (if not everywhere, definitely in AMC theatre chains).
From: Mike
Just writing in to let all the South African readers know that this Thursday at 19.00 on a South African show ‘CineMagic’ on the M-Net channel, they will
be showing a preview for the first ‘The Lord of the Rings’ film. According to the promo for the show, they are going to be previewing “the biggest event movie ever” or something like that and they showed a few clips from the first Theatrical Teaser Trailer (Frodo catching the ring, Orcs marching, Aragorn throwing a burning torch at the screen etc.).
While The Biting Faery sends along a great tale of meeting a star from LOTR. I truly do not believe that Chrisopher Tolkien was at Comic-Con, but I can confirm that this LOTR star was!
Yesterday (Saturday, July 21st) was, as you know, the NewLine Lord of the Rings promo presentation.
Well, later on that day my love Jeffrey and I heard the loudspeaker paging a ‘Christopher Tolkien’. We rushed on over to the Show Office to see if we could catch a glimpse of him, but no luck. I had my doubts as to whether or not it was the real Christopher Tolkien until about an hour later.
We were waiting in line to get renowned faery artists Brian and Wendy Froud’s autographs. Jeffrey sat down on the floor and I crouched beside him. I looked up for a moment and did a double take as Elijah Wood, Frodo himself, walked by us. Quickly I told Jeffrey (who thought I was joking at first), grabbed his hand, and we pursued the hobbit. He stopped to look at a booth when I slipped next to him and uttered a very shy “Mr. Wood?” He turned around and I gushed some sort of babble about how much Jeff and I were excited over the film, how we thought he was a wonderful choice for Frodo, etc. etc. etc. and Jeffrey told him how he had been a fan of his since ‘Radio Flyer.’
Elijah was very polite and kind, as well as softspoken with his ‘thank you’s’ and whatnot. We ended by shaking hands and thanking him for his time.
This confirmed our thought that it was indeed the real Christopher Tolkien who was paged. I wonder if any other of the movie’s stars were there…
The Biting Faery