Site News -- Posted by Fatty on Saturday, August 17 2002 at 8:06 PM GMT
You may have some trouble downloading any of the movie trailers at the moment. This is a technical fault with our additional server. Our technical support are attempting to track down the pesky goblin causing the trouble.
Two Towers Music Scoring and Opening Scene -- Posted by Black_Rider on Saturday, August 17 2002 at 7:54 PM GMT
AICN got in the studio with Howard while scoring the music for The Two Towers and explains just how it's done. They also tell us just what scene opens the movie, right here.
2002 LOTR Jacket Art Released -- Posted by Black_Rider on Saturday, August 17 2002 at 6:00 AM GMT
Houghton Mifflin has recently released it's 2002 designs for the jackets of the new LOTR books to be released in stores. Along with each jacket design there is a little explanation to what the books will include. Here it is, thanks to www.tolkien-movies.com!
FOTR is Week's Number One Rental, but No Record Setter -- Posted by Illuvatar on Friday, August 16 2002 at 9:26 PM GMT
IMDB reports, "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring earned $17.2 million from rentals in its first five days of release domestically, but it set no record, coming in well behind Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, which grossed $19.1 million in its home-video debut, Video Store Magazine reported Thursday." Thanks to Tolkien Online
Liv Tyler checks out the band Supergrass -- Posted by Illuvatar on Friday, August 16 2002 at 9:24 PM GMT
Actress LIV TYLER and members of TRAVIS, RADIOHEAD and BLUR were among the crowd who came to see SUPERGRASS at their low-key LONDON show last night. Read more here
Andrew Lesnie talks about TWO TOWERS!!! -- Posted by Illuvatar on Friday, August 16 2002 at 9:16 PM GMT
Andrew Lesnie (Oscar winning Lord of the Rings DP) was in attendance and shared stories of Oscar night, film making, his career and its humble beginnings, how technology affected the rings trilogy, the pros and cons of digital film grading and how the effect heavy Babe films prepared him for LOTR among many other topics. Read more atAin't it Cool News
Tolkien Still Making Money! -- Posted by Black_Rider on Friday, August 16 2002 at 4:56 AM GMT
Even while being deceased, celebrities are earning millions of dollars. This week, Forbes issued its Richest Dead Celebrities list, and where does J.R.R. Tolkien stand? Well, you'll just have to see for yourself. I'll agree it's a tad morbid, but to each his own.
UK Registers Ring True -- Posted by Fatty on Friday, August 16 2002 at 1:46 AM GMT
Well in the UK people have gone wild for the DVD of The Fellowship of the Ring. It sold 1.27 million copies on its first day. Beating the previous record held by young Mr Potter. After a week it has now sold a total of 2.5 million copies, that's 700,000 ahead of Titanic's total in 1998.
Oh yes and you can add mine to that too, so 2.5 million +1 :-)
Black Label games Formed -- Posted by Fatty on Friday, August 16 2002 at 1:41 AM GMT
Whilst I thought that Black Label was a brand of lager, it actually turns out to be a brand-new, and rather ambitious, game development studio – formed by Vivendi Universal.
The new studio will be focussing on high-quality titles, designed to appeal to a mature audience, and as such Black Label’s first games will include ‘The Thing’, The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, and.....more
Well this adds to the complicated web of companies and delvelopers involved in The Lord of the Rings franchise. Still it sounds promising.
Oh and as a footnote, War of the Ring may just be hoping along to see how The Fellowsip of the Ring game is coming along. More soon along with the opening of the PC/Console section.
Just Some Toys,.......but Warg Alert! -- Posted by Fatty on Wednesday, August 14 2002 at 6:56 PM GMT
Well TORN posted a link to Fun to Collect. Fair enough, had a look. Now not only do they have Treebeard again. But they also have a set which includes an orc on a warg. We had been wondering abou this for a while as there is also a Weta Medllaion which depicts an orc/goblin wolf rider.
Topp Towers -- Posted by Fatty on Wednesday, August 14 2002 at 6:46 PM GMT
Topps proudly presents The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Movie Cards, based on the second blockbuster movie in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Following last year's sold-out set, this 90-card, all foil-stamped series will feature exciting imagery from the film, Authentic Autographs................................more
Outage and Downloads -- Posted by Fatty on Tuesday, August 13 2002 at 5:40 AM GMT
Well folks we had a little outage tonight. We had to reboot our servers. The good news is that all downloads will now be servered from a separate server. this means you should not experience huge timeouts when the site is busy.
Though obviously if we run some exclusive footage there will still be some change in speed. However, it should be nothing like before.
The team at War of the Ring would like to thank you for your patience.
Quickbeam is Sam? -- Posted by Fatty on Tuesday, August 13 2002 at 8:00 AM GMT
Confused? Well no need. Quickbeam over at TORN is to be the voice of Samwise Gamgee in the new Fellowship of the Ring game by Universal. Seems he was working as their Internet advisor and they got him into the studio.
Now I wonder if they need a Fatty ;-)
Anyhow well done Quickbeam and watch out for our new PC/Console section coming to your screen very soon.
New Competition -- Posted by Fatty on Monday, August 12 2002 at 8:46 AM GMT
Yes, coming up very soon a new competition from War of the Ring, with a little help from our friends at Sideshow/Weta. This one is rather fun to enter too. More soon..........
Swords, Wit and Wonder -- Posted by Fatty on Monday, August 12 2002 at 8:44 AM GMT
An interesting article over at Tolkien Online on the recent interview with the makers of the the movie swords. I did have a chuckle!
Pardon me, mellyn, I have a very large, curved sword stuck in my throat. I am a sword collector; I have swords adorning the walls in my home along with a few spears and a custom designed Elven helmet. I even ............more
Sword Prices Slashed -- Posted by Fatty on Sunday, August 11 2002 at 2:49 AM GMT
Blades by Brown has just slashed their prices. Visit the site and check them out!
With the upcoming movie debut of The Two Towers, and the release of up to three new swords before the debut they thought they would celebrate by giving all the fans out there something else to get excited about.
Oh and don't forget to check out the new set of three and set of four prices.
Now if only we can get our hands on some to review :-)
