Ravyneyez writes: I just opened my SciFi wire and found a small blurb about Sean Bean’s new movie Silent Hill (video game inspired movie). It’s directed by the Christophe Gans (Brotherhood of the Wolf) and he mentions PJ when speaking of his current director. Sounds like a movie to look out for. [More]
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EDITOR’S NOTE: National Review is celebrating its 50th anniversary this week. Throughout the week, NRO will run some pieces from the archives to help take a trip down memory lane. This piece appeared in the September 28, 1973, issue of National Review.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, who died a fortnight ago in his 81st year, was as much a writer of his time as the archetypical modern from whom he seemed to differ so radically and so sharply. All the arts of our century have been revivals of forms long abandoned. Joyce was our Homer, Pound our Dante. Tolkien dared to resuscitate romance, a form requiring the genius of a Rabelais or Spenser, a form which was shattered after its brilliant flowering in the hands of Boiardo and Ariosto by the publication of Don Quixote. Thereafter the demon realism ruled the roost. [More]
No matter where Elijah Wood goes, no matter what he does, about a billion people will identify him as Frodo in Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. It was that kind of success. More recently, he was in “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and “Sin City” before making a couple of independent films that have gone into release concurrently on the art-house circuit, meaning one or two prints per region. [More]
TheOneRing.net, in partnership with Sideshow Weta Collectibles is giving away three great Lord of the Rings prizes. Our first place winner will receive an Orc Pitmaster Figure, second place will receive a Trapjaw Helm and third place will receive ‘The Orcs of Moria’ Medallion No. 1. Its excessively easy to enter and winners are selected at random. Enjoy! [Click Here]
Turgon writes: Henry Gee has posted some news at his website on the UK book tour for his book, THE SCIENCE OF MIDDLE-EARTH. The first date is today (12 April) in Tolkien’s own city of Oxford, where he’ll be speaking at the Oxford Literary Festival. [More]
The original soundtrack to the film ‘A History of Violence’ is to be released on New Line Records on October 11th. The film marks the 11th collaboration between director David Cronenberg and Canadian composer Howard Shore. Best known for his scores for the “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, which earned him three Academy Awards, Howard Shore continues to create epic and unique soundtracks. His work on â??Rings” saw the composer win Academy Awards for Best Original Score (“The Fellowship of the Ring” and “The Return of the King”) and one for Best Original Song for his collaboration with Annie Lennox and Fran Walsh on the song “Into the West” featured in “The Return of the King.” [More]