Category Archives: LOTR

Rings of Power

Posted on February 14 2022 by Mickey

    I remember when every publicity still, every film clip, every teaser poster got me more and more excited for the The Lord of the Rings movies.    I am having the totally opposite reaction with the Amazon series. Why … Continue reading →

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Lord of the Wrongs

Posted on February 3 2008 by Mickey

    Yay!  Lord of the Rings bloopers! I hope there’s more where these came from.    [Archivist’s Note: the original video has been removed, but perhaps this one will suffice…]

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Music of Middle-earth

Posted on October 18 2004 by Mickey

    I had the pleasure of seeing The Detroit Symphony Orchestra perform Howard Shore‘s The Lord of the Rings Symphony on Saturday. It was a special one-night-only peformance, conducted by Markus Huber, with the Ford Motor Company Chorus and … Continue reading →

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There and Back Again

Posted on September 28 2004 by Mickey

    My wallet is destined to be empty. Last weekend, New Line announced the specs on this December’s release of the four-disc The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Extended Edition. The official movie site has … Continue reading →

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Movie Links

Posted on September 8 2004 by Mickey

    I was wondering if Peter Jackson’s commendable openness with fans, and TORN‘s access to him, would continue; and now I see it has. TORN is morphing into Kong is King.net. The site was down last time I checked, … Continue reading →

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The Shaping of Middle-earth

Posted on September 5 2004 by Mickey

    I finally got a chance to see my brother Rick [and wife]’s handiwork. In decorating his son Jake’s room he had downloaded a PDF of JRR Tolkien’s map of Middle-earth, converted it to transparency, projected it onto Jake’s … Continue reading →

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“This is My Hour”

Posted on July 26 2004 by Mickey

    So much news came out of last week’s ComicCon you’d think it was a vast right-wing conspiracy to overshadow this week’s Democratic Convention. (Much like I’m the victim of a right-wing conspiracy at work, which is making me … Continue reading →

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Idledown

Posted on June 9 2004 by Mickey

    Evidently a “MySQL misconfiguration with the server” eviscerated my blog for a few hours today. Obviously the problem has been fixed, since you’re reading this. My apologies to everyone visiting the page today, which means I’m apologizing to … Continue reading →

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A Horn in the Hills Ringing

Posted on May 3 2004 by Mickey

    IMDb links to an Empire Online exclusive story about the CD release of Howard Shore’s full Lord of the Rings score. Apparently, the set will be 9 CDs long, including a bonus CD of unused music. This is … Continue reading →

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Appendix F: On Translation

Posted on March 29 2004 by Mickey

    Those wacky Chinese are at it again. Overseas bootlegs are notorious for their questionable English > Chinese > English subtitles. Now they’re just getting ridiculous, just randomly banging on their U.S. keyboard.    Check out these screen grabs. … Continue reading →

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