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More goodies at New Line Cinema shop…
Of course we want you to purchase collectibles through CoE (and games, and music, etc–click on the Store link at the left to see how you can help support your favorite LOTR web site!) but I just wanted to let you know that the New Line Cinema Shop is taking pre-orders for the Lord of…
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There, and back again…
Stuff tells us that they are finished with the pick-up shooting in New Zealand for The Two Towers, but there exists the possibility of further pick-up filming for The Return of the King.
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Miranda Otto’s latest movie
Here is a review of Dr. Sleep, the psychological thriller that Otto is in, at Coming Attactions, and a bit of information (casting) at IMDb.
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Way to go, Ohio!
Those who live in Ohio are lucky! For one week each year in Cambridge, there materializes a realm of the fantastic, where warrior maidens and grizzled veterans fight side by side with Elves and Orcs. Ragnarok! Ragnarok is a week-long extravaganza of mass melee and fun. Ragnarok is a living, breathing celebration of Tolkien’s works…
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It was so good, they wrote a book about it…
Here is a short but good article at Stuff, about the The Lord of the Rings: The Art of the Fellowship of the Ring, and Jane Johnson, guardian of the JRR Tolkien literature’s integrity at publisher HarperCollins.
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Peter Jackson doesn’t monkey around!
But that doesn’t mean he won’t. A re-make of King Kong by PJ? FilmJerk has the skinny!
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She’s just plain ol’ Galadriel…
Concerning Cate Blanchett: “The 32-year-old Australian actor is a superstar in every way except attitude. She’s happily married to a nice but nondescript Australian bloke, she’s enduring sleepless nights – with baby son Dashiell – like every young mum, she meets interviewers in her cheap and cheerful …” read the rest of article at The…
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Does this mean Arwen can’t cook?
Viggo Mortensen LOVES Wellington, NZ–especially the food! Stuff has the story!
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Read me a story, Nuncle Samwise…
Sean Astin reads “A Bad Case Of Stripes” by David Shannon. It is one of his daughter’s favorite books! You can hear him (and see pictures from the book), at BookPALS. Very cute!
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That which we call a walnut by any other name would, uh, still be as crunchy.
Yes, I know. That’s a weird lead-in. But there is a facinating article at the June 2002 Oxford English Dictionary newsletter, which discusses what Tolkien was doing in 1919 and 1920, at the very start of his career–he was part of the staff of the Oxford English Dictionary; he later said of this time that…
