VANCOUVER – The man who turned the Star Wars trilogy into a hit fringe show last year will attempt the same treatment with J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. [More]
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Seven films in three years have seen Orlando Bloom explode from ponytailed unknown into Trojan hunk who stands shoulder-to-shoulder with Brad Pitt, resisting the hordes of adoring girls. Chloe Fox meets an Errol Flynn for the 21st century. [More]
Roheryn writes: This essay “What Are We Losing?” appears in the current issue of the “Children’s Writer” newsletter. Patricia Curtis Pfitsch makes some insightful comments about how current publishing practices may be preventing the next Tolkien from emerging. She makes specific references to details from Christopher Tolkien’s “History of LOTR” series, and how fascinating it is to see the creative process with every painstaking revision. [More]
The last of the original film footage of The Lord of The Rings has left New Zealand for storage in the United States. The final reels of more than 2000km of film that was shot was packed up at the Film Unit’s archives in Avalon, Lower Hutt, yesterday for shipment to owner New Line Cinema in Los Angeles. [More]
ThirdOrcOnTheLeft writes: Silva Screen Records will be releasing a 2-CD set of the music of the three LOTR films, done in a sort of suite rearrangement. Nic Raine and the City of Prague Philharmonic, who do many of that label’s soundtrack recordings, will be the artists. [more]
More than 2,500 volunteer and national service leaders will gather in Kansas City on June 6-8 with a shared goal of motivating more Americans to volunteer and to make their service even more effective in meeting social needs in communities throughout the country. Lord of the Rings star Sean Astin, who serves on the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation, will be the opening speaker for the conference on June 6. [More]