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Happy Birthday Karl Urban
Karl Urban was born on 7th June 1972 in New Zealand so today is his 32nd birthday. You can read his cast bio here. In the CoE gallery there are pictures of Karl here and of Karl in the role of Eomer here. Happy Birthday Karl!
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MTV Movie Awards – RotK is a winner!
At the 2004 MTV Movie Awards RotK won the awards for best movie and best action sequence. The award show is scheduled to air on 10th June. For further details go to zap2it.com.
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After The Third Age
Ign.com report that EA’s The Third Age will not be the final console game in the series. To date, there are no specific details of the next game, but it appears that for future games in the series EA are considering alternating genres from year to year.
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Middle-earth inspires the academics
Education.guardian.co.uk report that in the academic world, “the ivory towers are loud with the noise of scholarly axes being ground and professors setting forth on the quest for conferences”. A new journal, Tolkien Studies, has been launched and there are two forthcoming conferences, including one on the worldwide impact of the Return of the King…
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The visual special effects of the movies
In this article at Suntimes.com Jim Rygiel, visual special effects supervisor, talks about his role in the making of the 3 movies. One of the things he reveals is that 350 extra shots, that had been originally cut from the film to reduce the running time, have been reinserted in the RotK DVD.
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Classical Brit 2004 Award for Renée Fleming
At the 2004 Classical Brit Awards, Renée Fleming, the American soprano who sang on a number of the RotK tracks including The End Of All Things, was honoured with an award for her Outstanding Contribution to Music. For further details of the award winners go to Scotsman.com.
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US residents – win a trip to Middle-earth!
For a chance to win a trip to New Zealand, a copy of the RotK DVD and a Samsung portable DVD player enter the sweepstake at samsungusa.com. You have to be 18 years or older to enter, and the closing date is 30th June.
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Award for the RotK trailer
The Return of the King has won a Golden Trailer award in the Best Drama category. For a full list of all the winners go to goldentrailer.com.
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Interview with Howard Shore
In an interview at smh.com, Howard Shore talks about his music for the LotR films and his hopes that Peter Jackson will make a film of The Hobbit. According to the article Howard Shore, “thinks the rights dispute over The Hobbit will be resolved”.
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UK residents – win a RotK DVD and game
For a chance to win a copy of the RotK DVD and the RotK game for PS2 enter the prize competition at CBBC. The closing date is 21st June.
