Is
Hollywood About to Sing 'Hail to the Hobbits?'
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040124/en_nm/leisure_globes_dc_1
It
is a minuscule group -- only about 90 members -- sometimes ridiculed
unmercifully by mainstream media. But on Sunday, the Hollywood Foreign Press
Association is once again set to look mighty big.
J.R.R. Tolkien and
the Reclamation of the West
http://isi.org/forum/tolkien_vs_jackson/birzer1.html
If
anything of Western civilization still remains half a millennium from now,
J.R.R. Tolkien's works will be read by students of English literature as well as
by historians of the twentieth century. With his vast, penetrating mythology,
Tolkien created...
LotR Fans Create
Charitable Fellowship
Following in the footsteps of their literary
and on-screen heroes and idols, on January 22, 2004, a group of Lord of the
Rings (LOTR) fans kick off the ROTK Challenge, a year-long drive calling on all
LOTR fans and others to increase their charitable...
Welsh
Star in Race Row
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200wales/content_objectid=13830081_method=full_siteid=50082_page=1_headline=-Welsh-star-in-race-row-name_page.html
Be
sure to read the second page of this article to get a balanced picture of what
is going on here...
Getting Closer to the
'Lord of the Rings'
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0401/17saturn/
This time
next year, ESA's Huygens spaceprobe will be descending through the atmosphere of
Saturn's largest moon, becoming the first spacecraft to land on a body in the
outer Solar System.
'King'
Reigns at Producers Guild
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/eo/20040118/en_industry_eo/13299
The
folks of Middle Earth are on top of the award-show world--again. A week after
dominating the Critics Choice Awards, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the
King scored another key, pre-Oscar win Saturday, taking top honors at the 15th
annual Producer...
Sean
Astin Ready to Pack Up Hobbit Stuff
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040119/ap_en_ce/people_sean_astin_1
Sean
Astin is ready to pack up his hobbit stuff as soon as he can. "I've been ready
to move on since we finished principal photography," Astin tells Newsday in
Sunday's editions during a round of publicity for "Return of the King,"...
Actors'
Politics Pollute 'Ring'
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2004-01-12-commentary_x.htm
"If
you want to send a message, call Western Union," said Hollywood pioneer Samuel
Goldwyn to filmmakers and stars who sought to use their movie projects to
advance some political agenda.
Hope in Peter
Jackson's 'The Lord of the Rings'
http://archive.thejujube.com/Themes/hopeinlotr.html
In 2001,
when I saw the first installment of Peter Jackson's magnificent epic "The Lord
of the Rings," it struck me as having a single overarching theme: hope.
Jimmy
Carter: 'Compassion for Mordor'
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/dp20040106.shtml
In
a just-published interview with the Norwegian Society for Universal Neutrality
(NSUN), former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said that the blockbuster trilogy
"Lord of the Rings" is sending dangerous messages to the world's young
people.
Shore Scores Triple
Nominations for RotK
Composer Howard Shore, who won the Academy
Award in 2001 for his score for the first installment of "The Lord of the Rings:
The Fellowship of the Ring," can add a number of nominations to his list of
honors.
You Can't Go Home
Again
http://www.morphizm.com/recommends/film/lotr_rotk.html
"Give
it to us raw and wriggling," Gollum (the amazing Andy Serkis) asked in The Two
Towers, and Peter Jackson consented, opening his final installment of J.R.R.
Tolkien's sprawling Lord of the Rings trilogy on an extreme close-up of a
worm...
