Posted on 01/15/2003 7:57:17 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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!
See also FBF's post at 479 of the other news from TORN today!
Media Watch: 'The Biggest Battle Of The Ring'
7/10/03, 5:54 am EST - Demosthenes
Swedish daily Aftonbladet has a new RoTK story up. While we're searching for a translation, you can all check out the pretty pictures - no new ones, but a good set of RoTK stills. Thanks to Ringer Spy Eva for the heads-up. [More] [English Translation] Spoilers
Gandalf the White surveys the carnage of Pellenor Fields
Ian McKellen updated his White Book, spoilers galore! Few more pics there too....here.
See pic above! I love that! - Gandalf looks a little lost! - So do the trucks in the background! Rest of story:
McKellen Updates White Book
7/15/03, 1:34 pm EST - Xoanon
Ian McKellen (Gandalf) has updated his 'White Book' section of his website. There are some great pictures from the battlefield in 'Return of the King'! [More]
From the above:
In this way I revisited the Gates of Mordor today , where The Mouth of Sauron once more threw down Frodo’s mithral vest. And Gandalf meets despair. Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli and Pippin were nothing but eyelines marked by a chalk cross behind or alongside the camera, or a yellow tennis ball or a red apple spiked on top of a lighting stand. I wonder if today’s tennis ball was a veteran from the Balrog battle where again an eyeline was need for a non-existent foe.
That is my VERY FAVORITE heartbreak of the whole story! - I am gonna be so twittery watching this. Ksen, I know you posted this for us yesterday but I was too distracted to read it! - Thanks for the ping Maq!
COMIC-CON: Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Preview!!
| Source: Blake Wright |
Saturday, July 19, 2003
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A host of hobbits, goblins and warriors dropped in on the San Diego Comic Convention today to premiere three minutes of a 12-minute preview of the third and final Lord of the Rings movie "The Return of the King". The full 12-minute sneak peek will be featured on the August 26 release of "The Two Towers" DVD. Prior to the preview, Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Andy Serkis, Dominic Monaghan and others fielded questions from the crowd, then introduced a special taped message from Ian McKellen, Peter Jackson and Billy Boyd who are still in New Zealand filming pick-ups for the new film due in December. The trio expressed their regrets for not being at the Con, then introduced the new footage.
WELL! - New line thinks these picks are a big deal! - I missed them when they were on TORN, but found them on Fantasy Planet.
TORN STORY:
New RoTK Pictures?
7/22/03, 4:16 am EST - Demosthenes
Ringer Spy Elfstone dropped us a line about some new RoTK pictures that just popped up on Spanish LoTR site Elanillounico.com. These images have since been removed from their website and we were asked by the film-makers to remove them as well.
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Also - New game in the works:
GAMING: Hobbit Video... AMAZING
7/22/03, 11:16 am EST - Xoanon
From Gaming Havens: It's hard to make my jaw drop, but when I first saw the video for Sierra's The Hobbit at E3 I was seriously in shock. I've not seen a cinematic this promising since Gandalf fought the Balrog! Take a look, and judge for yourself! [More]
Want to pre-order The Hobbit and be the first to play your way through this beautiful new game? Follow these links for your gaming system. [PS2] [GameCube] [PC] [XBox] [GameBoy]
Elrond knew all about runes of every kind. That day he looked at the swords they had brought from the trolls' lair, and he said: "These are not troll-make. They are old swords, very old swords of the High Elves of the West, my kin. They were made in Gondolin for the Goblin-wars. They must have come from a dragon's hoard or goblin plunder, for dragons and goblins destroyed that city many ages ago. This, Thorin, the runes name Orcrist, the Goblin-cleaver in the ancient tongue of Gondolin; it was a famous blade. This, Gandalf, was Glamdring, Foe-hammer that the king of Gondolin once wore. Keep them well!""Whence did the trolls get them, I wonder?" said Thorin looking at his sword with new interest.
"I could not say," said Elrond, "but one may guess that your trolls had plundered other plunderers, or come on the remnants of old robberies in some hold in the mountains of the North. I have heard that there are still forgotten treasures of old to be found in the deserted caverns of the mines of Moria, since the dwarf and goblin war."
~ The Hobbit, Chapter 3, A Short Rest.
Gimli the dwarf alone wore openly a short shirt of steel-rings, for dwarves make light of burdens; and in his belt was a broad-bladed axe. Legolas had a bow and a quiver, and at his belt a long white knife. The younger hobbits wore the swords that they had taken from the barrow; but Frodo took only Sting; and his mail-coat, as Bilbo wished, remained hidden. Gandalf bore his staff, but girt at his side was the elven-sword Glamdring, the mate of Orcrist that lay now upon the breast of Thorin under the Lonely Mountain. ~FoTR: The Ring Goes South
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