NZ’s getting rave reviews from tour writes for it’s role in LOTR as a diva landmass. [More] If that whets your appetite, check out the Red Carpet Movietours website. and you could actually go there.
Category: Original TORn
Spare a moment in your thoughts for Jeffrey Hawkes, hospitalised after a train/car accident. [More] Thanks to Lee for the link.
The British paper The Sun scored some great pictures from The Two Towers, including an amazing shot of Eowyn on the steps of Meduseld. [More] Thanks to Lee for the link.
Emails are streaming in and we’re getting closer to being able to reveal Figwit’s identity. But what do you make of this? [More]
[I love the TORN messageboard. And when we get a new server and a faster messageboard, more of you will enjoy it too I think.]
As the human race enters the 21st Century, we constantly strive towards the goal of equality for all, despite such factors as race, skin colour, religion, wealth or geographical location. However, these factors throughout the last two millenium have helped us shape the structure of society to the extent that we now think of and classify people in terms of lower, middle and upper class. This weekend, the Hall of Fire crew are discussing if and to what extent racial stereotypes and class structure existed in Tolkien’s Middle-earth. [More]
For a while now the TORN messageboards have been full of puzzling references to ‘Figwit.’ Who was this character? Evidently some Kiwi extra in the Council of Elrond scene who has no idea how many hearts he’s breaking. See New Zealand’s answer to Orlando Bloom at Figwit Lives! Thanks to ArwenElf, InDUHVidual and their tireless research minions.