An interesting piece on this season's fall movie lineup.

"THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS: Frodo and friends return for more mythological mayhem in the middle chapter of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy epic."

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A big new event to be held in Northern Europe later this year. Check out the info below. Information is still patchy but looks good!

The Lord of the Rings Fair is much more than a row of booths packed with all sorts of wonderful merchandise; books, games, t-shirts, videos, statues, action figures and a million other interesting things.

At The Lord of the Rings Fair we offer a series of unique events and adventurous activities. It is our aim to have something for everybody. So if you're a Tolkien Veteran or new to this magical world, there's a broad selection ............more in English and in Danish...I think.

This is just one of many spoilers listed on tolkienonline's webpage.

NEW Film Opens With Gollum in Swamp
FILMS: The film opens with a scene of Gollum in the swamps.
BOOKS: The book opens with Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli discovering the fatally injured Boromir. Gollum does not appear until the middle of the book, where he is caught by Frodo and Sam crawling down a cliff in the Emyn Muil.
PRO: More attention is given to Gollum in the films so as to explore in greater detail the psychological dynamics of Gollum, Frodo and Sam.
CON: This line is an invention of the filmmakers and does not represent Tolkien’s work.

Well this really raised my eyebrows. Not only was Dominic in Glasgow recently, he also went down to Paisley for a hair cut. The weirdest thing is Scott is the same person who cuts my own hair and my wife's!

So there you go he cuts more than one hobbits hair. Three if you include yours truly ;-) Needless to say I shall be querying Scott next time that I venture into get my messy moptop cut. :-)

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A MOVIE star visited Paisley for the first time yesterday - to have his hair cut.

Dominic Monaghan, who stars in the Lord of the Rings movies, came to town to have his hair done by award-winning stylist Scott Cooper.

The 25-year-old actor, who stars as the hobbit Merry in the movies, had just jetted in from his home in Los Angeles.

Scots star Billy Boyd - who plays fellow hobbit Pippin - had recommended Scott.

So when Dominic was in Glasgow visiting pals including the stars of the hit TV show Chewin’ the Fat - he called the YF salon in Wellmeadow Street for an appointment.

The salon was closed to the public yesterday and Scott and his assistant Eileen Davison cut and coloured the movie star’s hair.

And he was so thrilled with the cut - which Scott described ...........more

Winning the "Best Cinematography" award at this year's VMAs, Moby's "We are All Made of Stars" video included a large number of celebrities, including the LOTR actor Sean Bean who played Boromir.

Congratulations Moby, and Sean Bean.

Ian McKellan has updated his site with some great advice for aspiring actors. Not Lord of the Rings related. But interesting none the less.

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Howard Shore's musical score for the FOTR movie is rated number one for movie scores of all time, beating such classics as Doctor Zhivago, Gone With the Wind, and Chariots of Fire. This was based on a poll taken of over 52,000 radio listeners.

A plethera of news articles were written on this topic. here, and here, and here are a few!

Well we meant to pass this on a few days ago, but with things being hectic....

Anyway TORC are running an intersting article on an interview Bakshi gave to a magazine. Read more.

SCOTS star Billy Boyd has revealed how he thought he was going to die during the filming of the second Lord Of The Rings movie.

In the next instalment, The Two Towers, Billy's character Pippin has to undergo terrible tortures at the hands of the Uruk-Hai and Orcs.

And the actor admits it was all too realistic for his.......more

Not much of a Glaswegian eh!!! Not like your very own webmaster who jails from the same city as Mr Boyd ;-)

Now Bilbo's Last Song, a short poem marking the end of the famous Hobbit's adventures, is to be published to cash in on the new wave of interest in The Lord of the Rings.

The poem, illustrated by Pauline Baynes - who is also known for illustrating the Narnia Chronicles of CS Lewis - is best known for having adorned the walls of Tolkien fans in the form of a poster in the 1970s.

Now, following the commercial and critical success of Peter Jackson's Oscar-winning film of The Fellowship of the Ring, the first book in Tolkien's trilogy, it is being re-published in book form.

Baynes, 80, was the only ..........more

Well it has been confirmed. The European premiere of The Two Towers will be in Le Grand Rex theatre on the 10th December. Reservations start on the 10th Nivember in the theatre.

Thanks to the guys at Elbakin.com for the confirmation.

We do wonder at Paris as a choice. It is great for French Lord of the Rings Fans. But being that France was the European country where the film was least popular and where Tolkien is least read. Maybe somewhere like Sweden would have been a fairer, if less commercially sound choice.

Oh and before you run off to get your tickets, remeber folks we assume the film will be in French. So worth bearing in mind. :-)

We have just opened a new gallery of The Fellowship. It is categorized by DVD chapter, usually we do not do this, but it was requested. The original gallery had over 4800 images, but after some negotiation with  New Line Cinema whohad contacted us, we have reduced it to about a fifth of its original size or maybe less.

 However, it is still an amzing gallery. All images are full-size, original aspect, trimmed of border, saved at max quality. Some are really amazing, Balrog etc.

A great resource I think for everyone.  

Check it out here

Hope you like it.

Regards

War of the Ring Team