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Weaving

Who’s Hot Australian actor Hugo Weaving made a visit to LOTR’s Wellington studios last week. Weaving–probably best known for his role as a drag queen in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert–will join the project as elf leader Elrond, who leads the council at Rivendell, where the Fellowship first gathers.

And Australian actress Miranda Otto (The Thin Red Line) has been cast as É Eowyn, a beautiful maiden who falls in love with Aragorn.

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The Kevin Conway (Theoden) film ‘Mercury Rising’ will be on ‘Starz’ at 11:30 PM EST.

Thanks to Gamgee for the TV tip!

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According to Harry over at aint-it-cool-news, Elrond has been cast, but Peter Jackson won’t tell him who it is.
Talking of Elrond, I got some snippets of news that might concern him over at Spy Reports

Galadriel’s recent report on the sets for Rivendell and Helm’s Deep in the old chemical warehouse in Miramar sparked my interest, because not two days before I was talking to a contractor who had delivered “some stuff” to an indoor set in Miramar, and got to hang around and watch the Maori blessing on the site. (Why? I don’t know. I didn’t know there was a tapu on chemical warehouses.)
My contact described a set that looked like a large amphitheatre the height of a two-storey house and maybe 30 metres across, paved with stone and apparently made of stone, though as usual it was polystyrene. There would have been room for a hundred people or more. At the top of the tiers there were carved faces looking inwards, with beards, he thought. I asked about crowns but he didn’t think so. The surrounding walls were all blacked out so they wouldn’t show up during filming.
That was all he saw.
There’s no real use for something like this at Helm’s Deep, but no reason why the Council of Elrond couldn’t be held in such a structure, so maybe this is one of the sets that Galadriel was talking about. Though probably not the one they’re filming in first, if Elrond’s only just been cast.