Ringer Spy Riskbreaker sends in more news on a story we reported back to you on January 25th

I have spoken with someone on the “inside” of the movie memorabilia production industry. He has told me that United Cutlery (http://www.unitedcutlery.com/) is releasing their licensed versions of STING, GLAMDRING and THE SWORD OF THE WITCH-KING all before the film.

But, I know you guys are talented spies, and I hope that this information will cause you to send your men out into the trenches and dig up these pictures. I, for one, am drooling in anticipation. So is my movie prop collection. 🙂

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Aragorn’s sword is indeed one of the more notable weapons in the Lord of the Rings, and the Sword that Was Broken will not be wielded by the future king at Weathertop in the Fellowship of the Ring movie.

For the last few weeks, we have received many emails from sharp-eyed fans worried about the image of Aragorn wielding a sword at Weathertop. As we  all know, in the books Aragorn carries a broken Narsíl, which isn’t reforged into Andúril until after he and the hobbits arrive in Rivendell.

Well, Ringer spy Ignacius sent us something to clear up this discrepency. The sword Aragorn uses at Weathertop is not Narsíl: In a change from the books, Aragorn doesn’t receive Narsíl until he reaches Rivendell (Assumed Rivendell, but thats not confirmed).

What is the switch in the storyline? In the movie, Aragorn will carry a different sword _ rather than the broken one _ while journeying with the hobbits to Rivendell. That’s a change from the books, when Aragorn meets the hobbits at The Prancing Pony and shows them the shards of Narsíl.

Why the change? According to Ignacius, it was felt the image of a main character such as Aragorn wielding a broken sword at Weathertop wouldn’t seem right in the film.

So there you have it!

Thanks to Ringer Staff Member Melian for writing this story!

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Ringer Spy Gregory sends along a great pic of Cate Blanchett (Galadriel) on her swan boat! Check out the great pic! (via cine6.fr)

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I just wanted to let you guys know that the new LOTR trailer was shown tonight on national Danish television in the weekly show “Bogart” about upcomming films.

The film was introduced as “the great beast of movie revelation” They also showed bits of the first theatrical trailer and some footage from Cannes. In this footage there was an interview with Viggo Mortensen in danish where he admitted to never actually having read the books before getting to New Zealand. He also said that he enjoyed playing Aragorn, because of the development in the character: “Aragorn is not that great and strong a man in the beginning”, I believe was his exact words. He also stated that he found it interesting and rather amusing to find many parts of the books strongly “borrowed” from nordic mythology to put it nicely.

They had another person from the crew (I am not sure who because I’m not really in to that, sorry) but he said that they had been greatly inspired by nordic mythology in coming up with the visual look for the films, and when they got Viggo on board they particularly took a great interest in danish mythology, being danish that of course was really was cool to hear.

At the end of the footage the said that future shows will be featuring interviews with a lot of the stars of the movie up to its opening, I’m looking forward to that.

The program will be aired again on Danish DR2 at 7.10 pm on wedensday.

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Ringer Fan Jim sent us this from last weekend’s BEA (Books Expo America) in Chicago:

“I thought you might be interested in these images from the Houghton/Mifflin exhibit area at last weekend’s Book Expo America (BEA) in Chicago. They are very high on the movies and have quite a campaign with new packaging for the books set for the fall. They were showing the trailers continuously and had some nice collateral material (canvas book bags with LOTR logos, etc.). The booth decorations were outstanding with life size Frodo & Gandalf cutouts.

All told there were at least four separate exhibitors that had LOTR items for preview. It was hard to get any serious work done.“

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Thanks to Ringer fans Dave and M for sending us these scans of the July 2001 Empire Magazine LOTR Feature:

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