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Congrats to Sir Christopher Lee |
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"Veteran horror star Christopher Lee and golfer Nick Faldo have been knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours..."
News.bbc.co.uk
Tks to Vaire for the story!
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Posted by: Locksley -
on Thursday, June 18, 2009 - 12:19 PM
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Viggo Mortensen: first Good - and then goodbye? |
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"Viggo Mortensen should be happy. His past three movies have been critical smashes. He snagged a Best Actor Oscar nomination for one of them (Eastern Promises). And he played the title role in the 11-time Academy Award-winning Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, the last in the most financially successful movie trilogy of all (current global box-office takings: nearly £2 billion). In short, he has finally arrived. And yet, ironically, just when he should, in his own words, “be making hay”, the 50-year-old star is abandoning the movie business..."
entertainment.timesoneline.co.uk
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Posted by: Locksley -
on Monday, May 04, 2009 - 04:30 PM
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Fan Film: Hunt for Gollum |
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From TORN:
"Not-for-profit fan film “The Hunt For Gollum,” is making its world premiere online today. The 40-minute production, made by fans, for fans, is free to watch at:
thehuntforgollum
A quick glance at the film makes it clear it that Peter Jackson’s “Lord Of The Rings,” trilogy was a big influence on this production. Congrats to the filmmakers!
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Posted by: Locksley -
on Monday, May 04, 2009 - 04:27 PM
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TORN talks with LOTRO for game's second birthday |
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"May 4th, 2009 by MrCere | Discuss
“The Lord of the Rings Online,” launched two years ago, gives players a chance to explore first-hand, a gaming interpretation of Middle-earth. TORn checked in with three of the individuals behind the game: (Jeffrey Steefel, LOTRO Executive Producer; Harry Teasly, LOTRO Art Director for LOTRO; Adam Mersky, Director of Communications for parent company Turbine) to talk about the game’s past and its future. There are several promotions in place right now for the game, lots of game details at the end of the article including an exclusive giveaway for TORn readers!
For two years now, via a home computer, you can walk and run around Middle-earth (and LOTRO always correctly uses the lower-case “e” in earth, a good sign) and experience the sights, sounds, races, spaces and dangers of Tolkien’s fictional creation during the time of his “Lord Of The Rings,” books.
“This game is going to be around for a long time,” Steeple said. “We don’t want the same game we launched in 2007, we have learned some lessons over the past two years..."
theonering.net
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Posted by: Locksley -
on Monday, May 04, 2009 - 04:26 PM
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LOTR Online Update |
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Sapience from Turbine sent this in: There’s all kinds of craziness going on with LOTRO right now and we wanted to make sure you caught it all. Enjoy the update!
Welcome back to LOTRO! We kicked off our Second Anniversary with a week-long welcome back for former subscribers from April 24-30. Not only are we giving returning players an entire week of free game play, 25% bonus XP on mob kills, and the Anniversary token event, but there are currently some great subscription offers for everyone too!
LOTRO Turns 2!
Our Second Anniversary is upon us and Welcome Back Week is just the beginning! We have an exclusive item for subscribers at the end of our festivities, bonus XP on mob kills, and other exciting plans we’ve yet to reveal! All in celebration of two years of LOTRO! See all the details at lotro.com!
(http://www.lotro.com/gameinfo/407lotroanniversary)
It’s the return of the “Tell the Community Team” threads!
We have amazing fans and we love hearing what they have to say about LOTRO. As part of our constant efforts to improve the game and make Middle-earth a more vibrant place we’ve brought back the “Tell the Community Team” threads, a regular feature on our forums that gives the community a chance to tell us what they think. For the current topics, grab the link!
(http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?t=263728)
New Guides and Features.
The Lord of the Rings Online™ is all about exploration and customization. The latest entry in our Exploring Middle-earth series, “The Hero’s Guide to Customization” helps you create your own custom look or add that little something extra to make your character stand out in a crowd. After all, you’ll want to look your best when delving down into the Chamber of Mazarbul!"
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Posted by: Locksley -
on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 08:54 PM
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LOTR Online: New Dev Diary Video & Turbine Announces Multiple Awards |
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"FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
THE LORD OF THE RINGS ONLINE™ NAMED BEST OVERALL GAME OF 2008 BY THE READERS OF MMORPG.COM
Mines of Moria™ Named Best New Expansion and Turbine Named Favorite MMO Studio
WESTWOOD, MA – January 14, 2009 - Turbine, Inc. announced today that The Lord of the Rings Online™ was named “Best Overall Game” in the MMORPG.com 2008 Reader’s Choice Awards. In addition, Mines of Moria™, the first expansion for the popular massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG), was named “Best Expansion” and Turbine was voted “Favorite MMO Studio,” securing 46% of votes over nominees including Blizzard, CCP, and Mythic Entertainment. MMORPG.com is a leading website dedicated to providing news and features to the MMORPG community.
“We are honored that our studio has received this special recognition and we want to thank the readers of MMORPG.com,” said Jim Crowley, president and CEO of Turbine, Inc. “Given the competitive launches that took place this year, we are especially grateful for the awards they extended to The Lord of the Rings Online which has firmly established itself as one of the world’s premium MMOs. While we accomplished a lot in 2008 we have a lot more in store for 2009 that we look forward to sharing with players.”
“It isn’t difficult to see why our readers chose Turbine by a landslide in the Favorite MMO Studio category,” said Jon Wood, Managing Editor of MMORPG.com. “Turbine continues to impress us with top-notch releases and a reputation for releasing a great deal of quality content to subscribers and we are happy to join our readers in congratulating them on their achievements.”
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Posted by: Locksley -
on Friday, January 16, 2009 - 02:03 PM
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Briton beats Jackson to next Rings movie |
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From the NZ Herald
(By Alanah May Eriksen)
'The Brits are to beat Kiwi-born director Peter Jackson in creating the next Lord of the Rings movie.
But the new film won't have the $166 million budget the other movies had or the backdrop of green New Zealand pastures and snowy mountains.
An amateur film-maker from England is digging into her own pocket, appealing to sponsors and has hired several actors willing to work for free to make a not-for-profit movie inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy novels.
Born of Hope has been touted as a fan film but director Kate Madison is trying to shake off the term as she says it brings the illusion of "a bunch of teenage guys getting together holding shaky cameras on their shoulders".
The movie is set before the Jackson-directed trilogy and follows Arathorn and Gilraen - parents of Aragorn, a main character in all three films - from their first meeting through a turbulent time in their people's history.
The story stems from a couple of paragraphs written by Tolkien in the appendices of The Lord of the Rings but Madison, with the help of an American writer, have made up the bulk of the script.
"I'm the writer, director and the producer of this movie," she told the Herald from her home in Cambridge, England. "But if you want to break it down I'm also everything in between - stylist, head of wardrobe. This movie is my life at the moment."
Madison - who also plays the character of Elgarain, a character not created by Tolkien but inspired by his work - first had the idea of doing a Lord of the Rings movie in 2003 after seeing an advertisement for a Tolkien fan film-making competition.
The 29-year-old put out a casting call and received more than 100 CVs back. But she soon realised how much work she had created for herself and put off doing the movie. She picked it up again in 2006 after making her directing debut in a low-budget film Into the Darkness.
Born of Hope has a core cast of about 15 but Madison says more than 100 minor characters and crew have helped out so far.
Jackson is reported to have had a budget of US$94 million ($166 million) for each of his three movies but Madison hopes Born of Hope will cost no more than £25,000 ($65,500). Most of the props are borrowed and the actors turn up when they are not doing paid work.
Jackson's trilogy was shot in 150 locations around New Zealand, but much of the shooting for Born of Hope is being done in West Stow, Suffolk. Parts are also being filmed in Epping Forest, near London, for some of the Middle Earth locations and Madison is also hoping to film in Snowdonia, a North Wales national park.
Because of copyright rules, no money can be made from the unlicensed film. People will be able to download it from the internet once it is made. Madison hopes to release the film at Ring Con, a fantasy convention in Germany, in October next year.
Jackson is the co-writer and executive producer of the film version of Tolkien's The Hobbit, set to be released in 2011.
Madison has been given the thumbs-up from Wellington's Weta Workshop director Richard Taylor, who created all the props for the trilogy. He left a message on the film's website saying: "Amazing stuff. It's incredible to see what craftsmanship, sensitivity and attention to detail is being brought to bear on this ambitious project.
"Everything so far looks amazing and I can't wait to see the finished project."
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on Monday, November 17, 2008 - 05:59 PM
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Guillermo del Toro: “I’m so voracious about The Hobbit!” |
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From Theonering.net:
" Guillermo Del Toro was recently in New York City as part of the New Yorker Festival and our good pal Anthony Moody from Indalo Productions caught up with him to talk all things Hobbit! In this first part of the interview GDT talks about his writing duties with PJ, Tom Bombadil and the possibility of a THIRD Hobbit movie(?!). Stay tuned for the second part of this interview next week! More follow later next week as well! ..."
theonering.net
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Posted by: Locksley -
on Saturday, October 18, 2008 - 02:11 PM
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Warner Brothers to release a LOTR soundtrack “Rarities Archive” |
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From Theonering.net:
"After spending Bilbo and Frodo’s birthday week riddling, Doug Adams announced what the ‘other major release’ his book will be tied to: LOTR: THE RARITIES ARCHIVE, scheduled for release in the fourth quarter 2009. There will be substantially more rarities material released. Doug’s initial project was limited in terms of budget (buying rights from Warner Brothers). WBR owns all this so licensing rights is not an issue. Doug wrote:
“This means that CONSIDERABLY more music is now available for the project! You will see why this qualifies as something “major,” I promise. And as I’ve said, there is some incredible LOTR music that no one has ever heard.”
It can get a bit confusing even to those of us who keep abreast of the subject so I’m going to be very methodical and touch on what’s already been relesed, what we know will be released in the future and what is new as of September 26."
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Posted by: Locksley -
on Friday, October 03, 2008 - 03:59 PM
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