Dear Tom DiChiara and moviefone.com, we got you…April Fools! From moviefone.com: ‘The Hobbit’ May Be a Trilogy – Peter Jackson and Guillermo Del Toro clearly don’t care that ‘The Hobbit’ is merely one book. The filmmaking powerhouses are reportedly negotiating to triple fans’ pleasure by spreading the ‘Lord of the Rings’ prequel over three movies rather than the initially planned two. We can already see the tagline: “Three films to rule them all.” And we dig it. Moviefone.com Fooled by TORN
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Hugo Wallace Weaving (born 4 April 1960) is an Australian film, stage and voice actor of English descent. He is best known for his roles in the films The Matrix, The Lord of the Rings, V for Vendetta, and Transformers Weaving was born in Nigeria to English parents Anne, a tour guide, and Wallace Weaving, a seismologist. He spent his childhood in South Africa and then moved to the United Kingdom in his teens. While in England he attended the independent boarding school Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital, commonly known in Bristol as QEH. He moved to Australia in 1976, where he attended another private school, Sydney’s Knox Grammar School. He later graduated from Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1981. More…
A cast of a Hobbit skeleton will be publicly displayed for the first time ever at Stony Brook University’s 7th Human Evolution Symposium on April 21, thanks to the National Research and Development Centre for Archaeology in Jakarta, Indonesia. As the debate rages on about whether Homo floresiensis – the so called Hobbit – fossils discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003, represent a separate human species, the symposium will bring together the researchers currently in the process of describing and analyzing the remains. ‘Hobbit’ Skeleton to be unveiled on April 21
Elicia writes: Following the recent launch of Book 7 for The Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO), Turbine has released a new developer diary and batch of screenshots kicking off the LOTRO Spring Festival, which begins today and runs until April 7th. During the Spring Festival, the world will explode in celebration as the free people of Middle-earth ring in the season with special decorations, festive costumes and special quests. Continue reading “Turbine Kicks Off LOTRO Spring Festival”
Héctor writes: This April 4, Peruvian Tolkien Society will be held its annual meeting: The Great Council in Lima, Perú. There will be talks, theater, language sessions, giveaways and a lot of fun. Join our members in the celebration of Tolkien works. More information in our official web site: http://tolkienperu.org
Lance Owens sends along word that the lecture ‘J.R.R. Tolkien: An Imaginative Life’ is now available online: A series of three lectures examining Tolkien and his imaginative experience is now becoming available online in audio and illustrated format. The lecture series runs from February 10 to March 17, 2009 at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. As the series is completed, all lectures will be made available for online listening and viewing. The second lecture is now available online. Be sure to catch the first one available here. For more information visit gnosis.org/tolkien Continue reading “‘J.R.R. Tolkien: An Imaginative Life’ Lecture Part 2 Online”