From: Gothmog and Wife
UK store W.H.Smith have pre Christmas store catalogue/brochure with a full page devoted to LOTR tie-ins. [More]
Category: Original TORn
Just a friendly reminder of the TWO contests ongoing at TheOneRing.net:
The Caption Comedy Contest ends Oct 31st. Submit your caption for an image of the Fellowship and win great prizes, including a SideShow/WETA Frodo Figure, a copy of Heavenly Creatures on DVD, or The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien. [More]
The Third Annual Halloween Costume Contest is in full swing. Send images of your Tolkien related Halloween costume to us and win amazing stuff. Each winner will receive over $100 dollars in LOTR merchandise from Sideshow/WETA Collectibles and Fantasy Flight Games! [More]
Longtime New Line studio spokesman Steve Elzer has left the company, TORN has learned. Elzer, who is highly regarded within the entertainment industry and has been a longtime friend to me is considering a number of opportunities.
Steve was Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications with New Line, and one hell of a great guy. We met online years ago and our mutual LOTR interests quickly became a friendship. I hope Steve lands somewhere really interesting and can continue to give us juicy tid-bits on LOTR in the future!
Best of luck Steve, New Line will be different without you.
Decipher continues to update daily. Check out the havens to view all the newest images and learn about Decipher’s sixth contest! [More]
The following is from a radio interview with Liv Tyler as she talks “The Lord of the Rings”.
You seem to take a lot of time between projects.
“Oh, I always do that. It always seems like that whenever…I always seem to work, to do a couple of things in a row and then, just stop. It’s not necessarily like, ‘Oh, I’m going to take a year off now.’ It’s just that something doesn’t come up that I really like. Also, for me, I think that it is really important to be at home and just be a normal girl and learn about myself and my life and just to get to spend time with people around me. [More]
Sean Astin, who plays Sam Gamgee in Peter Jackson’s upcoming Lord of the Rings films, told SCI FI Wire that he learned “so much” about the acting craft as a result of his participation in the big-screen adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s trilogy. “I learned a lot about my voice, about my body,” said Astin, who put on 30 pounds to portray the Hobbit gardener who joins Frodo (Elijah Wood) and the other members of the fellowship on the treacherous journey to Mt. Doom to destroy the Ring. [More]