Bjoern writes: Here’s some news regarding Christopher Lee, it has been published today by GMX Online Magazine:
Here is a translation (made by myself):
For outsiders it is perhaps a bit bizarre, that actor Christopher Lee (Count Dooku, Saruman, Dracula) starts his musical career with a metal band. But as yesterday in cologne-ehrenfeld (germany) suddenly many musician, technicians and actors appeared, this seemed to be the most usual thing in world.
For the epical-metal-formation Rhapsody (Italy) Lee took over the role as narrator and kept with his voice their album “Symphony of the Enchanted Lands II – The Dark Secret” together. But then came the idea to record the song “The Magic of the Wizard’s Dream” with a big choir and orchestra again, but this time as duet with the more classical oriented ex-Dracula. And because for those curiosities there are only a few experts, it was no question to make this production with Joey DeMaio (Manowar). He had much to do, the single had to be finished before starting the video production.
It was a bit difficult to fit into the amazingly accurate timing of a rock production, Lee mentioned. Freestyle wasn’t asked in his duet with Rhapsody singer Fabio Lione. In addition the song was recorded in four different languages – italian, english french and german. And always there were problems distributing the text, Lee complained. The sound differs from his personal taste, but the young audience likes it, that’s the main thing.
The official Rhapdosy homepage added a small note regarding their new single, saying…
RHAPSODY has just confirmed that they will enter the recording studio together with film legend Christopher Lee, to re-record the song “The Magic Of The Wizard’s Dream” from their latest release “Symphony Of Enchanted Lands II – The Dark Secret”.
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Celebrate 50 years of The Lord of the Rings with Alan Lee! World-renowned artist Alan Lee, acclaimed LOTR illustrator and Academy Award-winning conceptual designer for the film trilogy, will discuss his long involvement in creating the visual world that accompanies the books and films based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Lee’s visual presentation will include a slide show and a display of a dozen original illustrations. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A with fans and a booksigning. Tomorrow (December 4th) Alan will be at ‘Books of Wonder’ in New York, NY. For the full list of his stops, click here! [More]
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“I suppose hobbits need some description nowadays, since they have become rare and shy of the Big People, as they call us.” (The Hobbit, Chapter 1) We have finished going through The Hobbit, but who, or what, exactly, are hobbits? Perhaps the only fantasy creature which can truly be called the creation of J.R.R. Tolkien, where did they come from and where did they go? [More]
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“I suppose hobbits need some description nowadays, since they have become rare and shy of the Big People, as they call us.” (The Hobbit, Chapter 1) We have finished going through The Hobbit, but who, or what, exactly, are hobbits? Perhaps the only fantasy creature which can truly be called the creation of J.R.R. Tolkien, where did they come from and where did they go?
Although all of his published works seem to revolve around this dear and funny race of little people, Tolkien gives us very little actual information about their history and origins. Considering the lengthy material written about elves, dwarves and men, hobbits are relatively obscure. They seem to have the most modern society in Middle Earth, yet the least ambition of any of the free peoples.
Was Tolkien just not interested in hobbit society? Or did he assume that people would relate to and understand these creatures, making extensive explanation unnecessary. Join us this weekend in #thehalloffire when we will explore the world of the Halflings as we look at “Concerning Hobbits: Everything you ever wanted to know about those little guys”
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Upcoming topics:
12/11 and 12/12:
David Salo to take a seat in The Hall of Fire.
We are pleased to announce that Tolkien language expert David Salo will be our special guest during our scheduled HoF chat on Saturday, December 11 at 5:30 P.M. EST.
Mr Salo was the primary language consultant for Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. He will be talking about Tolkien’s languages (especially Sindarin and Quenya), about how the languages appeared in the movies, and a bit about his new book, “A Gateway To Sindarin: A Grammar of an Elvish Language from J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings”, as well as answering chatter’s questions.
This will be a moderated Q & A session, and HoF staff are now accepting questions. If you have a question, please submit it to the staff at thehalloffire@theonering.net prior to the event.
(The chat on Sunday, Dec. 12 will center on reactions to the Salo chat, as well as exploring Tolkien’s languages)
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Place:
#thehalloffire on theonering.net IRC server. Need instructions? Go here:
http://www.theonering.net/barlimans/instructions.html
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Chat Times:
Saturday Chat:
5:30pm EST (17:30)
[also 11:30pm (23:30) CET and 9:30am Sunday morning Australian summer time]
Sunday Chat:
8:00 pm (20:00) CET
[also 2:00pm (14:00) EST and 6:00am Monday morning Australian summer time]
EST = Eastern Time, USA’s East Coast
CET = Central European Time, Central Europe
AEST = Australian East Coast
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If you have Tolkien inspired art work to share and sell, we welcome you to entry the ORC Art Gallery! Both professional and amateur artwork will be sold and displayed in the Art Gallery during convention hours on Friday and Saturday with a live auction on Sunday. Art awards for the Amateur artists will be given out during the Awards ceremony Saturday evening. If you are an artist interested in learning more, check out oneringcelebration.com
Also, don’t forget The One Ring Awards! It’s time to open the nominations for the One Ring Awards, to be held at The One Ring Celebration in Pasadena, CA on January 15, 2005. Half the awards will be for events held at the convention, such as the Art Show, Fan Film Festival and the Costume contest. The other half will be voted on by you, the best LOTR fans on the net. [More]
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Anonymous writes: After months of on-line voting, and tens of thousands of votes, on their website, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation has determined Australia’s Favourite Books and will be presenting the Top Ten in a nationally broadcast show. “My Favourite Book”, this Sunday (Dec 5) evening at 7:30pm (AEST) on ABC. I can tell you will some certainty that “The Lord Of The Rings” will be one of those ten, but will it take the Number One position as Australia’s Favourite Book? The results are being kept top secret so you’ll have to watch. The full list of voting results will be available online after the show airs on Sunday: [More]
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