David versus Goliath, or should that be Frodo versus Sauron? Just when almost 40 years of residents’ battles over excessive noise at Wellington airport seemed dead and buried, a new row has surfaced. The issue is whether Lord of the Rings’ American financer, New Line Cinema, should be allowed to fly its executives into the airport in its slightly-too-noisy Gulfstream III jet up to four times a year. [More]
(Hrm…4 times a year? Try living up here in Pointe-Claire, on the Island of Montreal. I’m in an airplane corridor, we have planes passing over every 5 seconds…what?! I can’t hear you! – Xo)
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From: Craig Wilding
Pictures taken by Craig Wilding at this years Dragon Con 2001 in the Lord of the Rings Larp. To view the album, click here. You may be asked to sign in or become an Ofoto member. It’s free to join.
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Take a look at the poll Setonline has up, they’re asking which movie we think will be the best of the year, head on over there and vote for LOTR, even though we’ve never seen it! [More]
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Finally another Fan Art Update! Check out the 40, brand spanking NEW images from Tolkien fans around the globe. [More]
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Summer’s gone, and the time is right for more ambitious films – if Hollywood can just get the enchantment machinery going again. After an airhead summer, movies are supposed to get serious now. They’d better, it will be an airhead year. But signs (and a couple of trailers) do offer hope. [More]
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Ringer Spy Thomas sends along this first pic from the new Ian Holm (Bilbo) film ‘My Napoleon’, which recently changed titles to ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’. In it Holm plays Napoleon, it was filmed in Italy and was recently screened at the Locarno Film Festival, in Switzerland. [More]
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