This is a small overview of the “Lord of the Rings International Brochure” that can currently be purchased at the Official New Line Shop. Nothing is better then actually touching and feeling this brochure, but I’m going to try and duplicate that effect using scans of each page.

According to the New Line store only 2500 of these were printed, which means this is going to be a big time collectors item. It was originally printed in the Spring of 1999 (when TORn was born!).

“The cover is a die-cut cardboard that opens from the middle, revealing an initial Vellum page, which is followed by seven heavyweight cardboard pages. Each page has an exquisite image of the film as well as a few notes about to novel, the director, or plans for the movie. Since the brochure was designed before production began, the images were chosen by Peter Jackson to be the first publicly seen images from the film trilogy and were finished specifically for this item.” – New Line Shop

So lets see it! If you click on the image, another window will open up and you’ll probably have to scroll to see the full image for the interior pages. Each image is about 2000 pixels wide and about 350k. So those of you with a modem, it might be a little slow in loading. Enjoy!

Cover with die-cut/vellum (left) – Cover with vellum(right)

Cover (opened and vellum removed)

Page 01

Page 02

Page 03

Page 04

Page 05

Page 06

Page 07

The brochure sells for $60 at the New Line store. I highly recommend it. Like I said earlier, its going to be quite valuable in the future.

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From: movieheadlines.net

The Scripts for the Lord of the Rings are all kept in a seperate script vault in the New Line Offices around the world. The Warners London office has one script each for all of them, so does Fine Line. The names of the people that the scripts belong to are printed on the pages and if they get out, they are done!

I don’t know what the big deal is, I have my copies…provided to me by a fellow with the name of… 🙂

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Ringer Spy Firebrand sends along word on where he/she saw the spikey wheel. [More]

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From: Firebrand

I was at the Licensing Show in New York (in June) only one thing was interesting : the New Line booth, with the Lord of the Rings ! I had the chance to peak at series 1 and 2 figurines, as well as some new figurines I hadn’t seen on the Internet.

There were also two large “full scale” costums, probably used in the movie : one was an orc warrior, the other one, a magnificient Black Rider. I noticed there were some sharp, short spikes on his gloves.

Among the figurines, there was a landscape diorama of Orthanc (quite alike to Alan Lee and Tolkien’s drawings), and guess what I spotted below the Tower…a tiny spiky wheel, the one that Saruman was impaled upon. It’s now clear that Saruman is being pushed of the tower by Grima in the third movie (the “plot twist” aluded to by Ian McKellen).

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This interview with Ewart Oakeshott, one of the greatest experts on swordfighting through the ages is a sobering reminder of how ignorant we are nowadays concerning these lost arts. After reading this you can’t help thinking that all those wonderful movies where we’ve been stirred by the clash of sword on sword are just wrong, wrong, wrong! Ow, it hurts to give up a favourite fantasy. But still, thanks to the folks at the Historical Armed Combat Assn. and Gurnsy for the link. [More]

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The Alternative Tolkien society updated their website in June. Check out their themed tours of their ever-expanding version of Middle-earth. They also have new Tolkien sweatshirt to buy if you join up!

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