The folks from Emerald Rose write: Fresh from their rowdy performances at ELF last month, Emerald Rose is hard at work rehearsing for the massive five day party that is DragonCon. The Tolkien track will feature the band performing at the annual Evening at Bree party on Friday night, September 1 at 8 pm, hosted this year by Arms of Middle Earth. The boys in kilts will be joined onstage this year by TORn sib Greendragon, an accomplished opera singer from Boston, for a performance of the LOTR classic ‘Into the West’. Her memorable performance of the song at ELF last year in Orlando was a high point in the show, with many fans singing along for the chorus. Greendragon is one of a very few musicians to have joined Emerald Rose onstage for live performance in their ten year career.
While TORn readers will know Emerald Rose from the LOTR Oscar parties and the Ringers soundtrack, a new group of movie fans will be enjoying the band’s music with the release of ‘Done the Impossible: The Fan’s Tale of Firefly and Serenity’, a documentary about the Firefly phenomena. Ten instrumental tracks from the band’s recent cd ‘Archives of Ages to Come’ were used in the movie’s soundtrack. The band also recorded a new arrangement of Joss Whedon’s ‘Ballad of Serenity’ along with an original filk song ‘Big Damn Heroes’. [emeraldrose.com]
Like Sin City before it, The 300 will bring the work of graphic-novel writer and artist Frank Miller to the screen using live actors against a computer-generated background. Shot entirely on a soundstage in Montreal, the film centers on the ancient battle of Thermopylae, in which 300 Spartan soldiers attempted to hold off an invasion by a massive Persian army. For stars Gerard Butler (The Phantom of the Opera) and David Wenham (the last two Lord of the Rings films), the process was a little disorienting, but worth it in the end. [
Hollywood star Sir Ian McKellen has confessed he wasn’t too happy with the script of Ricky Gervais’ Extras. The Lord Of The Rings legend will make an appearance in a forthcoming episode of the acclaimed series. He plays himself in the funnyman’s show, which is well-known for parodying the diva-like behaviour of celebrities. In the past, Extras has featured Samuel L Jackson, Kate Winslet and Ben Stiller. [
Summer swashbuckling movie Pirates Of The Caribbean and its stars lead the winners at Sunday night’s Teen Choice Awards in Hollywood. Sequel Dead Man’s Chest scooped the Action Adventure and Summer Movie awards, Johnny Depp won best Comedy Actor, Orlando Bloom won Male Hottie of the year and Bloom’s onscreen battle with Jack Davenport won best Rumble. [
Udi writes: On 24th of August, the second annual Mythopia Convention will take place in Tel-Aviv, Israel. This convention is jointly organized by, the Israeli Tolkien Society, The Israeli His Dark Materials community and the Harry Potter for grownups community. [