Ringer Spy
Category: Original TORn
Some Kia dealerships got so clogged with LOTR fans test-driving Kias in order to get their free DVD that they’ve taken to giving them away rather than go through the hassle of giving test-drives to people who aren’t really interested. Ringer Brian, who got his DVD from them (there’s a 2-week wait) said “Bad news, it’s the FULL-screen version.” [whoops, had to change that – I misquoted him originally.-T]
Sasha writes: I went to card zone and got the new set of update cards with the preview cards in them. The special fabric cards are also out, but very rare apparently so when the man said he had 1 Frodo cloth card it had to be mine!
The CGI character Gollum (played by our very own Andy Serkis) has made his way to number 3 on the ‘most loved CGI characters’. [More]
Kat sends along this snippet from In Style called ‘Scar Search’:
Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn): (where is your scar) “Upper lip. On Halloween when I was 17, I got into a fight near some barbed wire. I was so drunk, I didn’t need an anesthetic to be sewn up.”
Rhys Ifans says he would like to have been in Lord Of The Rings. Ifans has just finished working on a film in Australia with Miranda Otto. She plays Eowyn in The Two Towers and Return Of The King. [More]