Author: HobbitFriend

  • There is more to life than mowing the lawn…

    Sean Austin will be at the Mad Anthony Celebrity Pro-Am Golf Tournament on June 17th in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

  • MTV Movie Awards Pictures and Video

    For those of you who missed it, here are Real Player video bits from the MTV Movie Awards show, at the Geman web site, Herr der Ringe. (With some of the media files, the quality is only ok, but, better than none at all.)

  • The Saturn Award winners have been announced!

    Bestowed by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, and sponsored by Cinescape magazine, the 28th Annual Saturn Awards were handed out at the St. Regis hotel, honoring the best and most shining achievements in genre entertainment for the year. The Fellowship of the Ring won three!: Best Supporting Actor: Ian McKellan! Best Fantasy…

  • Drift away on a tune, to the Shire…

    “In a world premiere, film composer Howard Shore is set to unveil an orchestral suite based on his epic Oscar-winning soundtrack to “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” on two consecutive August nights at the Hollywood Bowl.” Read more about Shore’s biggest score ever, at The Sun

  • The bold Peter Jackson

    The latest from Cinescape tells us that New Line Cinema honestly considered releasing the trilogy in the theaters in one year–all of them in one year! Can you imagine?! Just like Elrond over there, that one’s a nail biter!

  • New Hidebrandt illustrations

    If you haven’t already, go check out the Hildebrandt Illustrations in the Gallery!

  • …and the ancient art of frying pan!

    Here is an exerpt from a very interesting article about the different fighting styles in the trilogy, at Journal of Theatrical Combatives: “Tony Wolf is one of the legion of behind the scenes workers blessed with a unique and exacting challenge – rather than accomplish the fight and battle scenes with generic fight choreography, director…

  • I think we are all going to be busy tomorrow…

    Here is a great article at MTV and a heads-up–MTV will air “Becoming a Hobbit: A Behind the Scenes Look at The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” during the pre-awards show, at 8:30 pm EST (and 8:30 PST, too. East Coast gets to see it before West Coast 🙁 ). Oh, and here…

  • It is your right and responsibility to vote!

    At USA Today there is a poll titled, “Which sequel are you most excited about?” At the time of this posting, The Two Towers was leading, at 35.7%. I have voted…have you?

  • Merchandising makes strange bedfellows…

    Here is a snippet from a strange but true story, at DMNews: Kia Motors America yesterday said that it will be New Line Home Entertainment’s exclusive automotive partner in the home video and DVD release of “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.”