Queen of Rohan writes: I just picked up one of the BK glass Gandakf goblets today, and noticed some kind of code(on the inside flap) you’re supposed to enter on the website. I went to the site entered the code and “won” a chance to download an interview with Gandalf.
Category: Original TORn
The table is set for a wonderful leftover Thanksgiving feast over in Green Books:
• Anwyn’s Counterpoint has a juicy warning for all movie-going fans to retain their original imaginings of LOTR.
• Turgon’s Bookshelf percolates with intense responses from readers who took issue with his sobering “What I Fear Most about PJ’s Movies!”
• Our new Special Guest remembers Mythcon 32 and an up-close encounter with LOTR screenwriter Philippa Boyens!
• Guy Davenport (Geography of the Imagination, Da Vinci’s Bicycle) pays Tribute to JRRT.
• Moon Letters has excellent new Fan Fiction and Poems. Keep sending your best, and we will showcase it here.
• Stuff yourself silly on 19 fantastic new Questions & Answers, including:
- Where did the Elves get their wine?
- The origin of the Ring Verse?
- Why must all things fade?
- Could Frodo be the new Dark Lord?
- Tell us of the Haradrim.
- Are there hobbitish professions?
• There are new updates in red to previous Q&A.
• SPECIAL NOTE: Be here Monday for a full report on my trip down to New Zealand to visit Middle-earth! Thrill to my first-hand account of meeting the director and stars, seeing the sets, living the dream of Gondor and more. A five part series that begins 26 November 2001!
Much too hasty,
Quickbeam
NicLeRoi sends us a link to the Sunday Times’ ad for their special collector’s edition LOTR supplement this weekend.’
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Check out this new IMDB.com daily poll: ‘Which fan base of a film or movie is composed of the biggest geek contingent?’ Currently Start Trek and Star Wars are just giving us a pounding. If you are proud to admit you are a Tolkien geek, go on over and vote! [More]
Ireland’s not missing out…they’re having their own gala premiere. [More]
Joseph Pearce, author of ‘Tolkien, Man and Myth,’ in a short interview about the ‘meaning’ of LOTR from a Catholic perspective. [More]
Thanks to Edoardo for that.