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The Battle for Middle-earth – latest updates from EA
Last week ithillinde from CoE attended EA’s The Battle for Middle-earth Community Day, you can read EA’s report of the event here. There’s also a new video, Inside the Battle Volume 3: Middle-earth A.I, in which “Mark Skaggs and Dustin Browder talk about the game A.I. and its effectiveness on the game environment.”
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Sir Ian McKellen – latest site update
The latest update to Sir Ian’s offical site is to the e-post section where he answers a number of questions. These include who he thinks would win in a fight between Gandalf and Magneto!
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Decipher LotR trading card game
The latest update at Decipher.com is an article entitled, “An Uruk-hai by any other name”. You can see Mount Doom card previews here; the latest cards include the Easterling Berserker.
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Fell Beasts on the move
Stuff report that the Fell Beasts that once perched on top of cinemas in Wellington, have been moved from their temporary home in a landfill site to an undisclosed indoor location. According to Weta production manager, Jamie Wilson, “they might be used again sometime in the future’
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Hobbit Hill for sale
The Wrekin, a 1,300ft hill in Shropshire, UK, is up for sale for around £500,000. The hill is said to have been used by Tolkien as the basis for Middle-earth. There’s further information at telegraph.co.uk.
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LotR symphony review
At The Australian there’s a critical review of the Sydney Opera House performance of the LotR symphony. The reviewer states, “what works so well on screen is much less successful in the concert hall”.
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Landscapes of Middle-earth stamps
On 7th July, the New Zealand Post is releasing a set of eight stamps to commemorate the landscapes of Middle-earth. The stamps feature some of the locations in New Zealand that were used in the filming of the LotR movies and include Skippers Canyon, the setting for the Ford of Bruinen scene in FotR. You…
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UK residents – win a RotK DVD signed by Andy Serkis
For a chance to win a copy of the RotK DVD signed by Andy Serkis enter the competition at CBBC. There’s also a link on the page to an interview with Andy in which he talks about how techniques used in the creation of Gollum will be used in PJ’s next film.
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South Bank Show on Sir Ian McKellen
A 75 minute programme on a year in Sir Ian McKellen’s life will be shown on Sunday 27th June, on The South Bank Show. There’s further information at Sir Ian’s official site including that shooting began in June 2003 and covered re-shoots for LotR and the promotional world tour for the film. The show will…
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Tolkien language conference
The First International Conference on Tolkien’s language will be held on 4th-8th August 2005 at the University of Stockholm. The conference proceedings will be published in a new publication, Arda Philology. There are further details here.
