Liv Tyler (Arwen) talks a little bit more about her role in LOTR in this story from CNN….
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Liv Tyler (Arwen) talks a little bit more about her role in LOTR in this story from CNN. Among the highlights:
“That is nice (having the films done all at once), but there’s a part of me that’s kind of anxious to get into another role, because ‘Lord of the Rings’ was so spread out for me. I didn’t get that sense of working every day consistently for a period of time. And at the same time, I’m not the main character in those movies.” [More]
Thanks to sk0766 for the heads up.
Here it is folks, from last weeks ‘Conan Obrien’ Show. We have Liv Tyler (Arwen) speaking elvish! Click on the link to listen (MP3 or Real Audio). [elvish_tyler.mp3] [elvish_tyler.ra]
What does she say? Well, Ringer Fran sends in this info:
‘Now my Lord, winter has not yet come. Would you before your time leave your people?’
Which I guess is spoken to Aragorn and taken from somewhere in the history of Arwen and Aragorn in the appendices.
Fran
You can click here to go to the newly opened website for the latest Liv Tyler (Arwen) film ‘One Night at McCool’s’, check it out, and turn the air conditioning up 🙂 [More]
Ringer fan Ken sends us this Liv Tyler (Arwen) biography from the latest edition of Biography Magazine.[More]
Some new pictures of Liv Tyler (Arwen) are appearing online from her new film ‘One Night At McCools’ via AICN. Click on the pic above for more.
This relates to a rather unimpressive bit of journalism by the UK news earlier this week. Ian Collier, the Publicity Officer for the Tolkien Society, wrote to us with the following, which he stresses are his personal views and not necessarily those of the entire Tolkien Society:
Dear Harry & Tehanu
I’m e-mailing you both as I’ve been watching events unfurl on your websites for the last year or two and I gather that Peter Jackson and co.look around the web to keep up with fannish opinion on their efforts; so I’m assuming they’ll look at your sites on a regular basis. As you may or may not know the UK’s Sunday Times ran an article yesterday 25/6 entitled “Hollywood hobbits upset Tolkien fans (here) about the filming of Lord of the Rings. I knew it was coming as I’d been interviewed on the phone for it being the Publicity Officer for The Tolkien Society, what I didn’t see coming (a tad naive of me) was the misquoting that would occur, especially as I had been asked forthe Tolkien Society’s position on the film. I’ve emailed you because I don’t want the society to be understood as being anti-film, an opinion which could be formed if certain pieces of orc-work are taken at face value. Especially with the comments that the Tolkien Society are worried by some developments and “are to discuss Tyler’s role and that of Blanchett, who plays Galadriel, at their annual Oxonmoot, or meeting in Oxford, in September.” as if to say that we are going to sit in some sort of Inquisition-like conclave.
Another example is the following series of misquotes about Liv Tyler:
“Ian Collier, spokesman for the Tolkien Society, said: “We have heard that Arwen is leading an elf army at one point and replacing one of the hobbits in the fellowship. I do hope Liv Tyler is not going to turn it into a sword-and-sorcery type role.”
I didn’t say that, in the interview I gave the society’s position and as the interview went on Arwen’s expanded role came up, my comments were that I
could see some expansion as necessary to explain her marriage to Aragorn,but that I also wondered what effect this would have on Eowyn’s role, silly of me maybe but I know better now. Regarding “and replacing one of the hobbits in the fellowship” I specifically stated that this old rumour had been definitively dealt with on Sir Ian McKellen’s website after someone posted a query based on a ‘spy’ report.
My personal opinion is that the cast & crew are doing a great job and are trying their hardest to stick as closely to Tolkien’s texts as possible,this is based on rumours, interviews and question and answer sessions posted on your sites and on Sir Ian McKellen’s. As I’ve said above I don’t want the idiocies of the press to make the people concerned feel that the Tolkien Society holds a negative opinion about them. They don’t!!
Yours
Ian Collier”
