So there’s the second link dump - again loosely LotR related.
April 2, 2009
Viggo Mortensen: first Good - and then goodbye? Viggo Mortensen hasn’t accepted a movie role for a year, and may never make one again. Why, asks our correspondent
Business leaders honour Weta's Taylor Published: 10:17AM Thursday April 02, 2009
Source: ONE News
The force behind Wellington's Weta Workshop, Richard Taylor, has won the supreme award at the World Class New Zealand awards.
And it’s one he designed himself! :D
Del Toro was right choice for The Hobbit, says Raimi By David Bentley on Mar 25, 09 06:47 PM
SAM RAIMI, who was on the shortlist of directors for the big-screen remake of The Hobbit, says Guillermo del Toro was a brilliant choice to make the film.
Obviously the second film will now not cover the time between the end of The Hobbit and the beginning of Fellowship of the Rings, but if you’re interested in that time period, there’s fan film The Hunt for Gollum which will be released as a streaming film
on Dailymotion.com on 3rd May. You can also find the trailers and more information at
http://thehuntforgollum.com That’s it for this round - I’d have liked to add a few more, but this already took me about an hour because my laptop isn’t so much running as CRAWLING!!! *sigh*