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2001-12-21

4 Golden Globe nominations for the Fellowship

Director Motion Picture - Peter Jackson
Best Dramatic Film - Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Best Original Score - Howard Shore
Best Original Song - May it Be - Enya

2001-12-19

I have seen it!!!

Yes, finally I saw it here in Uppsala, Sweden. I have so much to say about this movie, but I cannot tell you all about it here. It was truly beautiful, the seriousness of the task handed to Frodo, all the emotions, the power of the Ring, it was all there. The scenery was Middle-earth, the actors supreme. Some scenes were different from my view but nothing was bad. The details were fantastic, from the landscapes directly from Howe's and Lee's images to the lines in Quenya. See it, you will regret if you miss it!!!!

And it was truly wonderful!!!!

2001-11-19

3 Days of ticket line in Sweden

Here in Uppsala, Sweden, people started the ticket line for the Fellowship of the Ring 17:25 16/11. Yesterday evening, the line consisted of over 80 people sleeping at the street in the cold night and this morning it was massive.  The tickets were released 08:00 this morning and lots of frozen fans finally got their reward.  Yep I got tickets to the premiere! :)

New update at the offical site

2001-10-27

New screensaver at the offical site

One with cool Orcs found here

Enya and the soundtrack site

Hear a little sample and see the tracklisting here

Gandalf in Rivendell

Nice image found here

TEMPORARY SITE. Now postcards section, message board and parts of the Tolkien section also running

2001-10-26

Enya will make LotR Movie song

New screensavers at the official site, many of them too!

New gallery at the Official Site

TEMPORARY SITE. THE WTC Attack destroyed the servers. ONLY THE MOVIE NEWS SITE RUNNING RIGHT NOW

2001-09-25

New trailer at the official site

New images, screensavers, info and more on the offical site!

2001-09-15

Images from the Last Alliance

4 Images found right here

Cannes Footage in Oz

Review with many spoilers found here

The making of Bree

New video about the making of Bree can now be found at the offical site, go and watch it there!!

Quicktime versions of the new TV commercial for the LotR movies

Yes, not great quality but the commersial is very cool, see it here

More images

Found here

2001-09-05

Changes in the script

Read them here

More new images

Yes, many new images of Bilbo, Weathertop, the  Fellowship and much more. Find them here and here.

2001-09-02

New images from weathertop and Bilbo´s party

Yes, very nice images and they can be found here.

2001-09-01

New Poster at the official site

Yes, a wonderful poster can be found here now. Check out this nice link too!

E! Online Updates

More information about the movies in their monthy update. It can be found here!

LOTR ICQ skin

Find it at the official site. Very cool.

2001-08-26

Sorry for the few updates the last weeks, I have moved to Uppsala and begun at the University

New realvideo from behind the scenes

It can be found at the official site now

Info about some scenes

Can be found here! .

2001-08-09

New calendrar at the official shop

Filled with images from the movies, look at some of them here

2001-08-06

Lots of new images from the Tolkien Yearplanner

You can find them all here

2001-08-01

New official screensaver

Hobbiton as a screensaver at the official site. Find it here

E! Online update

Yep, more information about the production and much more. Find it here

2001-07-31

New images from Edoras

Very interesting images from the inside of Edoras can be found here.

2001-07-16

New LotR editions

See images of the books at TORN, right here

Read more

Tolkien Music

I got a mail about some new very interesting Tolkien music;

"I thought you would be interested in listening to songs about Tolkien's epic tale, by Acoustic Rock artist, Alan Horvath.  Songs that tell the story with lyrics and melodies from the heart ... songs that truly say something, not only about the story, but about Alan's passion for Tolkien's work.

"When I heard Alan's 'Lord of the Rings' project, I thought, 'This is something special' ... he's a great writer." ~~ David Bowie

"I love Alan's vocals ... "

~~Bernie Taupin

"There is a special aura about artists who take their visions to the highest pinnacles of success ... I get very excited about the magnitude of the aura I see, when Alan performs."

~~Bill Aucoin (Mgr. KISS; Billy Idol)

Please take a moment to consider helping a sincere (independent) artist gain the exposure he deserves.  Listen to Alan's pre-release mp3s from his first in a series of EPs titled The 'Rings Project: The Ballad of Tom Bombadil At the Sign of the Prancing Pony The Nine Riders The Road Goes On and On Frodo's Song

They are all here: http://mp3.com/horvath PS - Alan sings and plays 6-string acoustic guitar ('69 Gibson Hummingbird) ... plus, dulcimers, autoharp, octave mandolin, and harmonicas ... he performs with percussionist, A. Perry Heller and fretless bassist,

Alan Horvath http://AlanHorvath.com

Acoustic Rock ... for real. http://mp3.com/horvath

http://mp3.com/lordoftherings "

E! Online updated

About the sound problems and much more. Read it all here!

New design at The Old Forest Message Board!

2001-06-28

Images from the offical movie guide

Found here

Images of Shideshow collectibles

They are found here. And they lok really expensive..

2001-06-22

Finally some new images

And quite many of them too, they are found here at TORN.

2001-06-09

New Tolkien music at www.lingalad.com

"In 1999, Giuseppe Festa produced a CD titled Voci dalla Terra di Mezzo which contains songs he composed and played, inspired by moments he lived and by the book The Lord of the Rings written by the English author Tolkien. Today, thanks to the help of some other musicians, he proposes these songs in a concert making a tour round Italy for months.

The atmosphere is suggestive: the lights switch off and, at the light of some Finnish lanterns, the musicians take the audience in a world made of Elves and other mysterious creatures, going through wild lands and a still intact nature. They sing about a time now lost hoping to give new life to it, at least partially, thanks to the tales, to the guitars and to the melodies of a flute.

The concerts well introduces itself in places like Churches and old rooms but it reaches an important effect in every place since the atmosphere is granted by the simple and magic light of the lanterns. "

Go to the site, there is 3 songs you can download there!!!

Ian McKellen updates

New answers found here

New T-shirts from New Line

Two new T-shirts can be bought from New Line at this site.

Great images of Sideshow collectibles

Yes, new images in good quality of the collectibles. These new images can be found here!

LotR Kinder Eggs

Well, read about it here

2001-06-02

E! Online update

Found here, much interesting to read!

Downloadable HQ version of the trailer

Now found at the official site

Offical Cannes images

Found here

Even more images

Found here

2001-06-01

www.theoldforest.net will not be used any more, only www.theoldforest.cjb.net

2001-05-29

New Moria images

They are wonderful and found here

Some new images

Found here

2001-05-25

New Lothlorien images

Find them here

New trailer online

Now it is also offical!!

Not offical yet but it is found ;

here (small RealPlayer)

here (Large RealPlayer)

and here (Downloadable, Cirdan's herr-der-ringe-film site)

More versions here and here

2001-05-24

One day left until the new trailer!

It will be in some theatres and online friday 25th!!

McKellen updates

Some very interesting information about the beginning of the film.

It isall found here.

3 New images

Of the fellowship, the Hobbits and a palantir.

They are found here

'Lord of the Rings' DVD Boxed-Set for 2004

Peter Jackson is already working on the DVD for "The Lord Of The Rings" trilogy, with a boxed-set director's cut version of the movies to appear in 2004, according to Variety. The three films in the 'Rings' trilogy are being released in theaters for Christmas 2001, 2002 and 2003.

Read more here

2001-05-20

More images from TORN

Found here

TORN detailed Footage report

Found here, everything about the footage

2001-05-14

3 minutes on Swedish TV 4 about the movies

They interviewed PJ, he sang with the hobbits, the old internet trailer, everyone was impressed, Ian McKellen thought it looked excellent and so on.

Best review of the Cannes footage yet

More details from Tolkienonline is found here

2001-05-12

Cannes Booklet for downloading

You can find it at the offical site, full of images and text. A must have! Start downloading it now, it is found here!

AICN review of the footage

It is found here

2001-05-11

New Trailer will be released soon according to TORN

Cannes special

26 minutes of footage viewed

The Swedish paper Aftonbladet's film critic describes what he saw;

"The Lord of the Rings" - a Real Adventure

Jens Peterson at Aftonbladet has taken a look at the first movie in the trilogy.
All friends of "The Fellowship of the Ring" can calm down. The movie looks fantastic. Yesterday, 26 minutes of the adventure was shown in Cannes. Thrilling, striking, impressive. Wow.
The first of the three "Lord of the Rings" movie will show up this christmas. The director Peter Jackson presented 26 minutes of filmimg.

Gandalf with a long beard
First, there were a lot of scenes describing the intrigue and showing the main characters. Here is the idyllic Shire, to where the mighty Gandalf comes with long beard and blue hat, and where Bilbo celebrates his 111th birthday with a spectacular fire works show, which looks very lively at the movie screen.
The young hobbit Frodo (Elijah Wood) hears about the powerful and dangerous ring. Thanks to special effects, Bilbo (Ian Holm) and the other hobbits only reach Gandalf (Ian McKellen) to the waist.
Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), Legolas (Orlando Bloom), Boromir (Sean Bean), Galadriel (Cate Blanchett) and Gimli (John Rhys-Davies) comes into the story.
Saruman (Christopher Lee), Elrond (Hugo Weaving) with his daughter Arwen (Liv Tyler) flash past.

Dangerous walk in the mountains
Then there is 14 minutes of connected filming where the heroes wanders through the mines of Moria. Instead of climbing over the dangerous mountains they walk through mines that once where a home to dwarfes.
They find only bones in the fantastic mountain halls. And new dangers.
It´s a thrilling moment, that shows how nice the special effects works. The viewers were thrilled by the story and screamed when one dreadful creature after another attacked.

Short previews of the other movies
At the end they showed a lot of short scenes from the two follow-ups, even the unravelling where an almost dying Frodo who is carried by his friend Sam, and the seductive temptation of the magical ring.
From close-ups of the ring to great battles with thousands of creatures. Horror, excitement and humor.
Judging by appearances "The Lord of the Rings" will be the thrilling spectacle all the friends of the books have hoped for. The countdown has started.

New images and the Swedish article here

Arwen with the Evenstar

Image found here, click on 'Näste Bild' for more iamges

2001-05-10

New Lord of the Rings pictures released

A number of new Lord of the Rings pictures have been released.

Find out more here

The Official LOTR Site has updated

With a new 'Submit a question for Cannes'. Find out more.

2001-05-04

Big article in Swedens largest Entertainment paper, Aftonbladet´s Puls

Find it online here. Many Images!

More about Lurz

Read it here, very interesting.

E! Online has updated

Read here

2001-05-01

Galadriel, hobbits, alliances and Gandalf Major NEWS

Many great images are appearing on the net.

Here is one of Gandalf in the Shire, here is one of Galadriel and her mirror, this one is of a scared Frodo and this one shows the Last Alliance

E! Online has updated

2001-04-30

Many new images

One of Saruman and an Uruk-hai of the white hand here. Then you will find one of Gandalf here and one of Bilbo here! Great!

2001-04-29

Swedish collection cards

When buying special price SF theatre tickets in Sweden, you will find that they will have LotR images on them. The images are also posted here!

Two more images from the film

One is of an Orc-face and the other is of Sam and Frodo walking in a field! Find them here!!

2001-04-26

The Gates of Moria!!

Look here for a test shot or something like that from the filming at the Gates of Moria!

2001-04-24

New great spy images of orcs and a Black Rider!!

All are found here and here, very interesting images!

2001-04-19

Sideshow Weta Collectibles official site with all the previously showed collectibles

Images and information of the previously seen statues, helmets and busts! And now you get to know the prices too! Go here!

Standup figures, life-size, from LotR

Found here, will be shipped in October.

Lurtz and Saruman images BIG NEWS

Here comes 3 amazing images of Lurtz and Saruman from the movies! Click on the image for more, much larger, ones!

2001-04-16

AICN posts lots of images of Sideshow collectibles!

Yep, many of them too, they are found here (statues) and here (busts). Helmets are found here and som more statues here of LURTZ. Very good work but they will be expensive....

Ad about the Cannes contest in Sweden

SF (a Swedish movie-company) have published ads about the LotR Cannes contest in Expressen (one of Sweden's two largest News-papers), during the last days. The punchline is ;'The Saga becomes reality'... You can win a trip to Cannes and meet the LotR cast in a castle...

Swedish article with many images

The Swedish Morning News-paper Svenska Dagbladet has posted a four pages longarticle about Tolkien and the movies, very interesting, but it is written in Swedish of course.

Some images not found online;

Very large and HQ!!

Read it here



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