Liz writes: On Wednesday the 9th at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Todd Eldredge won the men’s division of the U.S. National Figure Skating Championships with a program choreographed to music from Howard Shore’s ‘FOTR’ score. This gives Eldredge a berth on his third Olympic team.
Category: Original TORn
The-Trades.com has listed the LOTR:FOTR trailer (not sure which one) as their second favorite trailer in 2001. It lost out the first place prize to the trailer for ’40 Days and 40 Nights’. [More]
spm writes: I’m not sure if this was mentioned already on the site, but I found a LOTR Trivia game download on the Palm website. It looks rather amusing. [More]
Take a look at this nice WETA crew jacket someone has up for bid on eBay! [More]
Looks like there’s a lot of people hunting for Hobbiton. This letter came in from one of our correspondents who lives on a farm near the ‘Hobbiton’ farm, in Matamata.
“I was in the Matamata Information Office today for just 20 mins and during that time 4 groups of people came in asking where to see the Hobbiton village!!! One English couple had driven all the way from Auckland especially and ‘wasted’ a day of their travel time! Another Japanese girl had caught a bus from Rotorua and had no idea what to do when told she couldn’t go to the farm!! (I’ve no idea how she was going to get there!!) Another group were visitors from UK, and then some Kiwis. Wow!!
Maybe that was because of the news item on tv last night about Hobbiton sign being stolen. But the demand is there and people [in Matamata] have no idea of the enormity of this whole thing!!”
Of course, they could make it easier on themselves and join other fans in one of Red Carpet’s coach tours to the locations… [More]
We had a lot of mail about the Ms. Tang’s article in Salon.com which compared LOTR unfavourably with Star Wars. Most correspondents were SW fans, but they didn’t agree with her conclusions. [More]