Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, and the stars of the $125 million Pirates of the Caribbean film have joined about 1,500 guests at Disneyland for its first ever movie screening. [More]
Category: Original TORn
If you live in Denmark you’ll be especially interested in this one from Ringer Kastenskov:
Just wanted to tell you that on Friday Viggo Mortensen opened an exhibition of his photographs at Brandts Klædefabrik – the National Danish Museum of Photography – in Odense, Denmark. And on Tuesday he will attend a booksigning at a local bookstore in Aarhus, likewise in Denmark. [More]
For those of you unable to fly to Denmark at a minute’s notice, there is an interview with Viggo and some photos from the exhibit here and here.
The RoTK teaser poster of Aragorn finally debuted a couple of days ago. However, if you’ve been looking for a version untainted by text and other scribble, head to the NZ Herald. [More]
German LoTR fan Harry Ho recently took a trip to NZ and took a bunch of photos that popped up on the TORC messageboards. You can check out the whole bunch here, but we’ve Scrapbooked a set picture from Stone Street and a couple of spooky shots of the location of the Paths of the Dead. [More] Minor Spoilers
Tolkien enthusiast Thomas Magnum was so keen to be involved in Lord of the Rings that he wrote this open letter to Dan Hennah and Richard Taylor at WETA. Thanks to Ringer Spy The Archer for the clipping! [More]
It’s slow on the LoTR news front this weekend, but the Age has this thoughtful article about the enduring popularity of some authors (including Tolkien) and the hype they had to live through in their own lifetimes. [More]