Lately I’ve been getting email at my personal address praising my work as Legolas, my fantastic fighting skills…
Continue ReadingLately I’ve been getting email at my personal address praising my work as Legolas, my fantastic fighting skills and general babe-itude, and advising me frankly that I’ve gotten kinda ugly since I cut my hair and let it go dark. Somebody somewhere has told people that I’m Orlando Bloom. I’m really, really not. Look, really: I’m the one holding the bottle of beer
Due to some excellent work by Lady Kenbobi, there is now a page you can go to that tells you EXACTLY what all the music is in all the LOTR trailers. [More]
To all those countless Ringers bugged by the questions about the trailer music: Lady Kenobi has done thema great service – listen to this:
“Your readers may find this of interest . . . I’ve spent the last couple of months putting together all I know about source music used in the Lord of the Rings trailers, from the first Internet Preview to the latest Two Towers one (with that interesting remix from Requiem for a Dream). The result is located at AudibleBeauty Using some simple online investigating and my two ears I have figured out what bit of music goes where in each trailer.
“It was because of the intriguing music used in the early LOTR trailers that I started noticing how most movie trailers use music from a whole variety of other movies. My favorite lately is seeing how many places I can catch music from Gladiator. Wonder when we’ll start hearing Howard Shore’s scores adding a little something to future trailers…”
A bit of news that helps explain why Sean Bean [Boromir] is listed in the credits for TTT despite being dead at the end of FOTR. Spoilers, of course! [More]
Just thought you would like to know that the November 2002 issue of Starlog magazine has a four page interview with Sean Bean. The article is called, “The Warrior Repentant” and there’s a spoiler about his appearance in “The Two Towers”:
“You will see me for a bit, in some form at least,” Sean Bean reveals. “I’m not sure how Peter will edit the film, but there is a moment where Faramir sees me in a dream. He has a vision of me. I’m assuming it will be incorporated into the second film.” (page 53, “The Warrior Repentant”)
Thanks to Narya for that!
Diamond_T, author of the new “Regional Cooking from Middle-earth: Recipes of the Third Age” cookbook, tells us she will be out and about next weekend in the Pittsburgh area, preparing her recipes for a good cause. [More]
