Xoanon here with some exciting news! Corvar and Calisuri have been working hard on the new look for…
Continue ReadingXoanon here with some exciting news!
Corvar and Calisuri have been working hard on the new look for TheOneRing. But fear not! It’s not a drastic change. But we think you’re really going to like it!
So, at midnight (12 EST) we will be down for about an hour. And by tomorrow you will be experiencing the NEW TheOneRing.net!
Tehanu here,
Last night NZ’s TV1 news reported that Elijah Wood was signed up to play Frodo, as we know. And then they finished up saying “It is still not known whether Hollywood great Al Pacino will play Gandalf.”
This, my friends, has to be a complete leg-pull. A wind-up. I’m still laughing. If this is true,I’ll eat my head!
I mean, PJ once did a spoof documentary that fooled most of us into believing that they’d discovered some NZ farmer last century who invented sound and colour film.
Al Pacino? Get along with you!
By the way, there’s some great new fan art up today.
Yes, you heard it right folks. A LIVE chat with Xoanon, Tehanu of the Mystic Arts, Calisuri, Corvar AND Anwyn, Quickbeam and Turgon…but that’s not all
The HEAD of Platus Productions ‘Smeagol88’ and one of his Graphic Designers, John Fipke will be there on hand to answer YOUR LOTR RGP questions!
On July 21st, at 9 pm EST the chat will begin! Stay tuned for the URL and get your questions ready!
Xoanon here with a TheOneRing.net EXCLUSIVE,
Tehanu picked this up from Sian Clement, Peter Jacksons’ publicist! It’s the official press release announcing Elijah Wood as Frodo! Read on!
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 10, 1999
(Los Angeles, July 7, 1999) – Elijah Wood has been cast in the lead role of New Line Cinema’s live action, special effects-packed trilogy of films based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s internationally renowned fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings, it was jointly announced today by director Peter Jackson, Michael De Luca, President and Chief Operating Officer of New Line Productions, and Mark Ordesky, President of Fine Line Features.
In joining the cast, Wood has committed to a project of unparalleled size and scope. Production on the highly anticipated serial is expected to begin by early October and principal photography will last more than a year, according to Jackson, who also serves as co-writer and co-producer of the fabled franchise.
The three Lord of the Rings films, beginning with The Fellowship of the Rings, will be produced consecutively and shot on location in New Zealand. Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Stephen Sinclair have completed their script for Part One: The Fellowship of the Rings and additional casting is currently underway.
“In casting this critical role, we knew we had to find an actor of great depth of range to take an audience on a journey through three movies,” Jackson said. “While we looked at many good actors, it was clear from the moment that we met Elijah that we had found Frodo Baggins. He has an enormous natural ability to draw an audience into a story and the dramatic depth to hold them there.”
Set in a mythic pre-history, The Lord of the Rings tells the saga of a desperate battle against encroaching evil – a perilous quest to save humanity which falls upon the shoulders of young Frodo Baggins (Woods), who has inherited a seemingly innocent magic ring from his elderly cousin Bilbo.
Frodo soon learns that the ring’s original maker, the Dark Lord Sauron, is desperately seeking it – for it is a ring of great evil which will enable Sauron to enslave the people of this land known as Middle Earth. A hurriedly assembled fellowship of wizard, elf, dwarf and men accompany Frodo and his friends on a harrowing mission across Middle Earth in an attempt to destroy the ring by casting it into the volcanic fires in the Crack of Doom. Against them rages the monstrous power of Sauron, whose sinister emissaries ruthlessly pursue Frodo and his companions, while the omnipotent power of the ring attempts to corrupt the fellowship from within.
Currently at work on Pontus Lowenhielm and Patrik Von Krusenstjerna’s Shiny New Enemies, with Salma Hayek and Jeff Goldblum, Wood will next be seen in James Toback’s Black and White, a largely improvised look at the underground hip hop culture through the eyes of a film documentary crew. He also lends his voice as ‘Tom Thumb’ in the upcoming animated feature The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina.
Wood has been seen recently in The Faculty, Deep Impact, and The Ice Storm. His film credits also include Flipper, The War, North, The Good Son, Huck Finn, Forever Young, Paradise, Radio Flyer, Avalon, and Internal Affairs.
On television, Wood was most recently seen on ABC in Tony Bill’s “Oliver Twist” as the ‘Artful Dodger.’ Other television credits include the NBC telefilm “Dayo,” and the CBS movie “Child in the Night.” Wood was named 1994’s Young Star of the Year by NATO/ShowEast following his performance in The War.
New Line picked-up the rights to Lord of the Rings from Miramax Films last August. Miramax co-chairmen Bob and Harvey Weinstein serve as executive producers of the films along with Saul Zaentz. New Line’s Senior Vice President of Business Affairs Suzanne Rosencrans negotiated the deal on behalf of the studio. Representing Wood is the William Morris Agency and lawyer Craig Emanuel of Loeb & Loeb.
Founded in 1967, New Line Cinema is the entertainment industry’s leading independent producer and distributor of theatrical motion pictures. New Line licenses its films to ancillary markets including cable and broadcast television as well as to international venues. The company, which is a subsidiary of Time Warner Inc., operates several divisions including in-house theatrical distribution, marketing, home video, television, acquisitions, production, licensing and merchandising units.
Xoanon here,
Calling all Milwaukee Tolkien Fans! Bree Moot4/Mythcon XXX is a happening that will feature our good pal Douglas Anderson and many others, here is the press release:
TOLKIEN FANS CONVERGE ON
MILWAUKEE
What brings fantasy readers from all over the country and around the world to Milwaukee? For the
second time Wisconsin Tolkien and Fantasy literature fans have succeeded in bringing the annual conference of the Mythopoeic Society to Milwaukee, this time combining with the convention of the readers of the Tolkien fan publication, Beyond Bree. Mythcon XXX (30) and Bree Moot 4, Bree & Beyond, will convene on Friday afternoon, July 30, and conclude on Monday, August 2 at the Archbishop Cousins Conference Center. As in 1987, Mythcon has been attracted to the manuscripts for J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and Farmer Giles of Ham–all at the Marquette University library.
Conference organizers will be arranging special visits to the Tolkien collection, and national Tolkien scholars, including conference Guest of Honor, Douglas A. Anderson, editor of The Annotated Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, Verlyn Flieger, author of two outstanding books on Tolkien and receipient of the 1998 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award, John Rateliff, who is under contract to write the definitive “History of the writing of The Hobbit,” and conference Chair Richard West (UW-Madison), author of A Checklist of Tolkien Criticism, will read papers and speak on panels, noting the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Tolkien’s Farmer Giles of Ham. Along with the usual scholarly papers read at Mythcons, there will be plenty of programs oriented to the Tolkien fan and general fantasy readers. Fantasy authors P.C. Hodgell, Anthony Swithen and Mythopoeic Fantasy Award winner Eleanor Arnason are expected to read from or talk about their works. Conference members are invited to join in discussions of classic and new works in the Fantasy genre, show off their costumes, perform in comic skits, and participate in the traditional evening “Bardic Circles” when members tell their own stories, or recite favorite poetry, or sing traditional folk songs or “filk-songs:” (made-up and often silly lyrics to familiar melodies parodying and celebrating the worlds and characters of Tolkien’s and other writers’ stories).
The rich fan and reader tradition of Bree Moot will be discussed by Guest of Honor Gary Hunnewell, historian of the many fan activities and collector of their publications (“fanzines”) pioneered by Tolkien fans in the ’60s campus craze, and continued today in web-pages and electronic discussion lists, where the most eagerly anticipated fantasy motion picture in the next millennium must be the currently filming Lord of the Rings from New Line Cinema-forget about Star Wars. More than fifty million readers are still waiting for a convincing film version of Tolkien’s new, living “myth.” The readers attending Mythcon/Bree Moot will be exploring ways that Tolkien’s myth has become their own, shaping their lives and views, enabling them to see their lives and this world anew, and challenging them to make their own, personal myths, or in Tolkien’s phrase, “sub-creations.”
The art show at Mythcon/Bree Moot will feature the work of the third Guest of Honor, Sylvia Hunnewell, illustrator of many of those fanzines to be discussed by her spouse. Also on display will be some of the work of Ted Nasmith, whose paintings have appeared in recent Tolkien Calendars and last year’s deluxe illustrated The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien, from Houghton-Mifflin. Artwork and many fantasy collectibles will be available for purchase in the conference dealers’ room and auction. The annual Mythopoeic Fantasy and Scholarship Awards will be announced following a banquet on August 1. Although there will be at least one almost-continuous track of Tolkien programming throughout the conference, there will also be program items, papers, panel discussions, and slide presentations on other authors and subjects, such as Kenneth Morris, C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, “Fantasy themes in non-fantasy cinema,” “King Arthur Lite,” Phillip Pullman’s The Golden Compass, Sherri Tepper’s Fantasy fiction, “Dinosaur Fiction,” P.C. Hodgell, Eleanor Arnason, Lord Dunsany and Ursula K. Le Guin. At-the-door registration will be $60; $50 in advance, until July 15.
Since 1967 The Mythopoeic Society has celebrated fantasy literature and its regular discussion, emulating the example of the Inklings, an Oxford University discussion group of the 1930s and 40s, which included J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams and Owen Barfield, though local discussion groups, scattered about the U.S.; a tri-quarterly journal of literary studies, Mythlore; a monthly newsletter, Mythprint; a fiction annual, Mythic Circle; an annual Conference; the Mythopoeic Fantasy and Scholarship Awards and recently, a webpage. The Milwaukee area discussion group is The Burrahobbits, contacts are Jeffrey & Jan Long, 1903 N. 118th St., Wauwatosa, WI 53226. The Mythopoeic Society web-page is at http://www.mythsoc.org/mythsoc.html Beyond Bree is the monthly newsletter of the Tolkien Special Interest Group of American Mensa. In recent years, its readers have organized a series of Bree Moots, reader-oriented conventions celebrating the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Previous Bree Moots have been in Iowa, Missouri and Minnesota.
Bree Moot was started by readers of Beyond Bree, a monthly newsletter for Tolkien fans, sponsored by the Tolkien Special Interest Group (of American Mensa). Bree Moot 4 is combined with the thirtieth annual Mythopoeic Conference, sponsored by The Mythopoeic Society.
The Mythopoeic Society is an educational and literary association devoted to the study, discussion, creation and enjoyment of fantasy in the traditions of the Inklings, especially Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams.
David Lenander
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St. Paul, MN 55102-1811
work: (612)626-3375
home: (651)292-8887
fax: (612)626-2454
e-mail: d-lena@tc.umn.edu Bree Moot 4/Mythcon XXX web-page
Xoanon here,
Just recieved this news. I’ll be calling some people and checking this out.
…the movies will be released later than previously announced. That means: Fellowship in Summer 2001, Towers in Winter of 2001, and King in Summer 2002.
I will get this confirmed soon.
A report from Cinescape
and I can’t stop laughing!
Fresh off his success as Mini-Me in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Verne Troyer could be considered the “it” little person. So what film roles may be in his future? How about the possibility of playing in Lord of the Rings (and do note the word “possibility”, people)? Last night in a chat hosted by Dave Poland of Roughcut, Troyer was asked whether he will take part in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. His answer: “Actually, we were approached and ….. maybe.” The Insider is not sure what sort of role Troyer might play since normal-sized actors will be miniaturized by thewonders of computer effects to play the trilogy’s hobbits and dwarves. Then again, one never knows whether Peter Jackson will deviate from that casting strategy in a few cases.
