LoTR: Return of the King - Pictures, spy reports and spoilers thread (ongoing)

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[HairOfTheDog]

Lord of the Rings:
Return of the King!
Pictures, spy reports and spoilers thread (ongoing)

Countdown to December!

Larger version of above image here

Beyond this point there be spoilers!

Like spoilers? – Keep reading!

Don't want spoilers? – Click HERE and don't look back!

Don't say we didn't warn you! Spoilers are what this thread is all about. So bring your rumors (substantiated or not!), spoilers, spy reports, and bones of contention about them here as the snippets of RoTK news, photos and interviews come rolling in.

I wouldn't even recommend pinging people to this thread unless you know they want to see them. There are a lot of purists out there that hate to have anything given away before the movie comes out. I, however, am not one of those.

I will start a "RoTK spoilers ping list" separate from the other Tolkien ping lists… so let me know if you want to be on the spoiler alert list!" If we use this thread for that kind of stuff, we won't shock people who don't want to see it. (though I bet they look anyway!)

Report 'em if you got 'em!

One tip….. Don't embed images from TORN (TheOneRing.Net) on this thread. If possible, load the image to another server, or just post a link to the TORN page. TORN's servers are powered by fleas I think, and are horrendously slow, particularly when they have something that is particularly good!

[maquiladora]

Hey, that reminds me. Anyone have a copy of "The Peoples of Middle Earth". I bought it a long time ago, and I'm still reading parts of it, but last week I read Tolkien's abandoned follow up to LOTR, The New Shadow. I have to say, I really liked it, shame he abandoned it.

[maquiladora]

HOLY SMOKE! I FOUND THE VIDEO!

here.

[ElfArcher]

*Bows* Thank you!
That is sssssssssssssoooooooooooooo perfect!

*Passes out*

[maquiladora]

Pity it's only 15 seconds! Gah!

[HairOfTheDog]

HOLY SMOKE! I FOUND THE VIDEO!

here.

THUD!

[maquiladora]

Shame it's so short, let's hope that teaser trailer isn't too far away!

[maquiladora]

Since ROTK is rapidly approaching, alas it will be soon when the LOTR movie cycle ends. But despair not, for there is still The Hobbit out there to be made some day. Let's remind ourselves of how things stand regarding The Hobbit...

J.R.R. Tolkien sold the film and merchandising rights for The Hobbit to United Artists in 1966. At some point afterward, United Artists in turn sold the rights and Saul Zaentz eventually acquired them. Zaentz set up Tolkien Enterprises, a division of the Saul Zaentz Company, in 1977 to administer the rights for both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. All film, radio, stage, and television adaptations since that time appear to have been licensed from Tolkien Enterprises.
MGM/United Artists apparently owns the distribution rights for "The Hobbit". It has been alleged that a script for The Hobbit has been circulating at MGM/UA but they are not moving forward with the project because they do not own production rights.
It 1998 it was reported to Xenite.Org that the Saul Zaentz Production Company was working on a "Hobbit" project. That project has since been shelved, and New Line Cinema may have a right of first refusal on producing a "Hobbit" movie after Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" movies are completed.

[HairOfTheDog]

No kidding...

I have a friend waiting for me at a bar for dinner.

She is not going to be impressed that I was late because I absolutely had to download and watch a 15-second mediocre quality bootleg video clip from (she's shaking her head already, she knows it's from) LOTR....

[maquiladora]

:-O

I'm sorry Hair, I didn't mean to delay you with that clip. I should have said it wasn't great quality.
Sorry. :-(

[maquiladora]

25 new ROTK pics up at the Offical Site!

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Video...pictures...*gasp*

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

2J...may I borrow some of your meds, please!?

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

[ElfArcher]

WWWWOOOOOWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!

This has been the most spoilerific last 3 hours in months!

*excited**jumping up and down**Slaps self*
Ok sorry.

[HairOfTheDog]

This has been the most spoilerific last 3 hours in months!

And to think..... All we needed was for IOTN to ask for PJ to throw him a bone!

New images at http://www.lordoftherings.net/

[2Jedismom]

I see Sam with Sting and the phial...and here is Aragorn with Anduril!

[HairOfTheDog]

It is gonna kill me, it is!

[ItsOurTimeNow]

And to think..... All we needed was for IOTN to ask for PJ to throw him a bone!

LOL...I didn't think he was actually listening!

Maybe he's a "lurker"?

I simply adore the "kingly" picture of Aragorn, complete with gondorian armor. (Plus, he finally washed his hair!)

[ElfArcher]

Where did you find this trailer?????
Please?
I'm dying to know.

[maquiladora]

It was taken from a TV screen showing footage for ROTK movie/game at some gaming convention. I dunno who shot it, but it's hosted on TORN. I didn't see if it's linked to on the main page, but one of the people from TORN told me about it.

[Mamzelle]

re: I simply adore the "kingly" picture of Aragorn, complete with gondorian armor. (Plus, he finally washed his hair!))))

Kings do that, that's how you know they've accepted the mantle of authority. (g)

Just toured those stills on the LOTR official site. My favorite was the portrait/head shot of Arwen in her velvet cape--oh, so perfectly draped. Clothes do that on elves, and their hair is always perfect, too.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Marked and bumped .....