The Science Fiction Book Club picks the 50 most significant science fiction/fantasy books of the last 50 years, although after the top ten they’re listed alphabetically (Via Lots of Co.) I’d say I’ve read about half of these, and the choices seem pretty legit. No surprise who‘s at the top of the list, but otherwise it seems like the fantasy side got short shrift. I guess the Narnia books (and for that matter Animal Farm and 1984) are over 50-years-old. Speaking of which, I can’t say I’m a very big C.S. Lewis fan (particularly as compared to Tolkien), but nonetheless – the Narnia film site is now live.
Tag: LotR
Smaug Awakens 12.19.06
The site’s getting killed at the moment, but at some point this fan-made teaser for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit is definitely worth checking out. Brought a smile to my face. In loosely related news, the second Animatrix trailer is also up – not half as intriguing as the first installment, but worth a look if you’re at all into anime (which, frankly, I’m not).
Bad news and Good news.
Harry finds out directly from PJ what’s been holding up the rumored Return of the King trailer. Says M. Jackson, We’re not doing a ROTK trailer for the end of Two Towers like we did last year. The reason is that the TT extended DVD has been so complex this year, it would have taken too many resources away from trying to get that finished. The FOTR extended cut had 35 extra CG shots – the TT extended cut has over 150.” Ah well. The waiting is the hardest part, but at least it sounds like more Ents and more Gollum are in our future.
Happy Valentine’s Day.
Happy Valentine’s Day to you and yours. I passed out all my LOTR Valentines this morning (although I kinda wish I’d gone Cthulhu) and am now off to see Daredevil. In the meantime, enjoy these unfortunate Valentines cards and have a great day!
The Black Gate is Open.
Garth at Dark Horizons has an update on Return of the King with some good news for those miffed at the early end of TTT (Mild spoilers.): “ROTK is supposed to run in the 3.5-4 hour range, [and] P.J. can use as much time as he needs to finish the story.” Booyah…
Crack of Doom.
TORN.Net has the first spy report about what might be included in the 4-minute ROTK preview which will presumably be added to TTT at the end of March. MASSIVE spoilers for non-trilogy readers (I’m not sure I want to see the last scene mentioned until I see the full movie.) Also, if you don’t like the casting in the first two films, here’s some wallpapers to indulge you.
Gondora gonna fallsa!
A year away and RotK spoilers keep on coming. Today we get out first look at Jar-Jaromir, half-brother of Boromir and Faramir. He looks perfect!
Hail to the King.
High-res versions of some of yesterday’s ROTK calendar shots are now online. Aragorn looks ready for business, doesn’t he?
LOTR: Return of the Spoilers.
Is it too early to start up this train again? (Of course not.) A rare Return of the King 2003 calendar makes it online, with pics of Denethor and of Frodo in the lair of you-know-who. Mild spoilers for non-trilogy readers.
Eleventy-One!
Today J.R.R. Tolkien reaches the age of Bilbo’s big birthday bash, 111. Be sure to toast the professor at 9pm local time. (In other birthday news, a very happy birthday to my brother Thad yesterday.)