News for Dec. 12, 2005
LOTR: Evolution Card Samples
12/12/05, 2:53 pm EST - Xoanon
Artists Cynthia Cummens, Grant Gould & Tom Hodges all sent in samples of the TOPPS approved LOTR: Evolution cards that will make their way to storeshelves in 2006. Take a look! [
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National Board of Review Awards Shore
12/12/05, 2:12 pm EST - Xoanon
The National Board of Review has awarded Howard Shore an award for Career Achievement in Film Music Composition. Take a look at the list of other award winners here. [
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News for Dec. 10, 2005
New Project-Monaghan Auction
12/10/05, 10:46 pm EST - Xoanon
The folks from
Project-Monaghan write: we are excited to announce an auction of an awesome Lord of the Rings, Return of the King poster autographed by
Dominic Monaghan,
Elijah Wood,
Sean Astin, and
John Rhys-Davies. All proceeds from the auction will go to TreePeople LA, www.treepeople.org, an environmental care non-profit organization that
Dominic Monaghan supports. [
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'Complete FOTR Recordings' Review
12/10/05, 4:00 pm EST - Xoanon
Dan writes: SoundtrackNet takes a look at the new expansive box set containing the complete recording of Howard Shore's award-winning score to The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. "Howard Shore's Oscar-winning, Golden Globe-winning, and Grammy Award-winning score to The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring was just the beginning of an epic 12-hour long Lord of the Rings saga that would catapult him to the forefront of the film music world. Now, for the first time, the complete soundtrack to the extended DVD cut of the first film has been released in one very pretty package. Each film in the trilogy has a different tone, but in hindsight, The Fellowship of the Ring stands out more than its successors: it is the one that introduces and develops the majority of the key themes that would come to play massive roles in the world of middle-Earth and our understanding of it." [
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Pre-Order 'The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring - The Complete Recordings [BOX SET]' on Amazon.com now!
News for Dec. 09, 2005
Andy Serkis IS King Kong
12/09/05, 12:07 pm EST - Xoanon
Edward Douglas writes: Most people will know
Andy Serkis from…No, I can't do it. I just can't write another of my usual generic intros for this particular interview, since I'm beyond frustrated with how little respect
Andy Serkis gets from his peers. For goodness sake! Let's give this talented actor an Oscar already! He helped create one of the most fully realized CG characters on film, as
Gollum in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, but now, he's given humanity and true emotion to a giant CGI gorilla in
Peter Jackson's remake of the monster movie classic, King Kong, and yet, he's probably going to be ignored again. It's bad enough that he plays the title role in the movie, yet ends up getting fourth billing. [
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News for Dec. 08, 2005
TV Watch: Andy Serkis on 'Access Hollywood'
12/08/05, 9:57 pm EST - Xoanon
Access Hollywood was all over the red carpet premiere of King Kong in New York City. In this clip from the show they ask
Andy Serkis to do a little '
Gollum vs. Kong' and Andy quickly corrects them and says it must be
Gollum vs. Smeagol vs. Kong...an interesting thing to imagine! Take a look.
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Wood Confirmed for ORC!!!
12/08/05, 4:51 pm EST - Xoanon
Elijah Wood has been confirmed as a guest for ORC: One Ring Convention at the Pasadena Center in Pasadena, CA from January 20th to 22nd. 2006. Click here for ticket information! [
Tickets]
Speaking of ORC, if you are an amateur artist, looking to see if you can make it in the art world, this is the perfect event for you. We are currently looking for amateur artists, who can do Children’s Animation, Illustration and Cartooning, to take on our professional Iron Artists. [More]
Alan Lee Talks Kong
12/08/05, 4:39 pm EST - Xoanon
Pungolo writes: Hey Xoanon! Today I had a good chat with mr. Alan Lee, who was presenting his new book here in Milan! We spoke mainly about Kong, but he said some interesting things about LOTR too (even if we are going to publish a report of a conference he gave after our interview, in which he showed a lot of interesting material - we'll send you the photos for TORN). [
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Lord of the Rings: Evolution Artist Interview
12/08/05, 4:36 pm EST - Xoanon
Grant Gould writes: Newsarama was kind enough to interview me and I talk a bit about the upcoming Lord of the Rings: Evolution card set, which I'm drawing 200 sketch cards for. [
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Sexy beast
12/08/05, 4:27 pm EST - Xoanon
Andy "
Gollum" Serkis got a little too close to the apes to channel King Kong. King Kong's return, 72 years after his introduction in the original classic, is the year's best more-than-mortal comeback since Batman Begins. And the giant ape owes it to his alter ego,
Andy Serkis. Serkis can do it all, from balding mystical runt to huge, hairy anthropoid in a blink of the camera's eye. He was the heart and soul of creepy
Gollum, the defrocked hobbit in The Lord of the Rings. Now he's Hollywood's go-to guy for iconic gorillas in our midst. [
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Happy Birthday Dominic Monaghan!
12/08/05, 11:18 am EST - Xoanon
Today is Dominic Monaghan's birthday! Dominic was born on December 8th, 1976 in Berlin, Germany. That makes him 29 years old today! Happy birthday Dominic!
Reminder: The Makers Of Ringers Will Answer Your Questions Next Weekend
12/08/05, 6:30 am EST - Demosthenes
Have you submitted your question yet? The two guiding lights behind the creation of
Ringers: Lord of the Fans will join us for a live Q&A; chat in the
Hall of Fire on Saturday December 17 at the special time of 5pm EST.
Cliff Broadway (aka TORn staffer Quickbeam) and Carlene Cordova (aka TORn staffer Asfaloth) will be on hand to answer your questions about the experience of making Ringers. Ringers, which was narrated by Dominic Monaghan, traces the history of Tolkien fandom from the 50’s to the present day. It examines the way legendary rock musicians, filmmakers, professors, actors, authors and you all unite under the banner of 'Ringer'. Interviewees in the film include Peter Jackson as well as Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Sean Astin and David Carradine. [More]
Hall Of Fire This Weekend -- The Seven Heavenly Virtues In LoTR
12/08/05, 6:23 am EST - Demosthenes
The challenge of Hall of Fire this weekend is to reveal the Seven Heavenly Virtues as they can be found in Lord of the Rings. Obviously there is much evil in Middle Earth, we ran out of time when we considered the Seven Deadly Sins only two weeks ago. But can we discover virtue? Here are the virtues along with the definitions that we will discuss.
FAITH -- Confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing. Loyalty to a person or thing; allegiance. Sam definitely has little faith in Gollum. [More]
'Hobbits' May Have Lived Downunder
12/08/05, 5:34 am EST - Demosthenes
The tiny hobbit-like humans of Indonesia may have lived in Australia before they became extinct about 11,000 years ago. The startling claim comes from archaeologist Mike Morwood, leader of the team that uncovered remains of the 1m-tall hominid at Liang Bua cave on Indonesia's Flores island in 2003. [
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