-
More LotR silliness for yout computer
You’ve got the desktop wallpaper, the screen saver, the mousemat… now get the AIM icons – there are some great TT pictures there.
-
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…
-
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.
-
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…
-
Does this mean Arwen can’t cook?
Viggo Mortensen LOVES Wellington, NZ–especially the food! Stuff has the story!
-
New official CD-ROM available
Newline cinema have released a LotR CD-ROM featuring screen savers, desktop wallpapers, posters, video extracts from the film, and also a paint studio. You can buy it for $25 at the NewLine shop.
-
LotR festival in Bonn, Germany
German visitors might be interested to know about RingCon 2002, a LotR festival in Bonn, Germany. Guests include the actors who played Haldir, Gil-Galad and Rosie Cotton – find out more at the website.
-
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!
-
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…
-
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.
