Fun miscellaneous non-MB related stuff

The Complete Movie!

Download it from a list of mirrors at the Tolkien Sarcasm Page (Running Time: 8 minutes 51 seconds)

Toys

All our nightmares have come true! Take a look at some of the upcoming toys from Toy Biz and weep...

A description of the action figures : ARWEN™ with Light Up Evenstar and Poisoned FRODO™. ASFALOTH™ with Galloping Action
The tagline on the box: "A Halfling Has The Ring of Power! Find Him! Bring me The One Ring To Rule Them All!"

Pure marketing genius! I want my Poisoned FRODO™!!
Pic: Action figures of Arwen and Frodo on Asfaloth

The Bow N Arrow set comes with 3 foam arrows! And the sword features realistic slashing and clasing sounds!
Pic: Lord of The Rings Bow N' Arrow, Lord of The Rings Electronic Middle Earth Sword

Complete your marble collection with marbles imprinted with mug shots of your fave LOTR characters!
Pic: Marbles

Comics

Userfriendly.org - LOTR trailer and Liv Tyler
One Ping to Rule Them All

Fraud of The Rings Series (John Cook)
Gonedaft The Grey
The One Ring
Ringwaifs
Winged Bullfrog
The Fall of Gonedaft
The Mirror of Gladwrapriel

From PVPOnline (Scott Kurtz) :
Strip #1
Strip #2
Strip #3

Foxtrot (Bill Amend)
Strip #1
Strip #2
Strip #3

Spy Reports!

Queen Beruthiel will be in the movies!
(at least, according to the Sunday Times UK)
An excerpt from the article:

For the uninitiated, Galadriel is the good sister of the evil but beautiful Queen Beruthiel, who imprisons the Fellowship of the Ring in the forest of Lothlorien. In the book, Galadriel frees them from her sister's clutches...

Read the full Sunday Times (24th July) article here.

Ian Markham Smith seems to have gotten all his LOTR info from the Tolkien Sarcasm Page.(see Your Homework Done For You) I wonder if he got the joke yet...:D

Brothers Hildebrant movie art
..on sale at theOneRing.net. Gandalf, Frodo and Arwen stand in front of a tree wielding flashy weapons! Take a look at it (about 150K) and weep...

Arwen in Helm's Deep....IT'S TRUE!
Rumour has it that Arwen will appear in Helm's Deep! (refer to TheOneRing.net Spy Reports)
They've got the report, we've got the pictures! According to the spy pic below, Arwen, played by Liv Tyler, straddles the high walls of Helm's Deeps to distract the orc archers...we love this new plot twist!

EXCLUSIVE ON SET pics : I have to climb up a 60-foot wall?! Liv struggles to comprehend the script

Black Speech Dictionary
Why bother with learning French and all those other useless languages? Black Speech can guarantee you better job opportunities, what's more, you can communicate better with fellow orcs! This dictionary is just the first step towards Black Speech mastery!

Artwork

Nine Nazgul WANTED poster (Spluffly) - at fan.theonering.net

It's XENARWEN!!! (Spluffly) Warrior Elven Princess

Some Dream (Creedence) - The green froglike creature on the side of the cliff looks more like Kermit than Gollum. Or is it meant to be Kermit?

Tolkien Money (Spluffly) - Tolkien money, the official currency of Middle-Earth.

Tolkien references

TERRY PRATCHETT
Source : The Annotated Pratchett File ver7.A

Moving Pictures
[p. 75/62]"[...] Victor fights the dreaded Balgrog".
[p. 19/15]Moving Pictures - Archchancellor Ridcully's wizard name is 'Ridcully the Brown'.

Equal Rites
[p. 133/130] "'Hmm. Granpone the White. He's going to be Granpone the Grey if he doesn't take better care of his laundry.'"

Mort
[p. 183/149]"'Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards because a refusal often offends, I read somewhere.'"

Wyrd Sisters
[p. 25/25]"'How many times have you thrown a magic ring into the deepest depths of the ocean and then, when you get home and have a nice bit of turbot for your tea, there it is?'"

Guards! Guards!
[p. 260/236] "'If that dragon's got any voonerables, that arrow'll find 'em.'"

Witches Abroad [p. 48/42] The section dealing with dwarfs (and in fact, almost everything Terry writes about dwarfs) is a parody of Tolkien's dwarves.

In particular, compare the witches' musings on mine entries and invisible runes to Tolkien's scenes outside Moria. Dwarf bread is a direct reference to Tolkien's 'cram', the dwarvish travel bread. And as the witches leave the dwarfs, they have an encounter with a wretched creature mumbling something about his birthday...

[p. 49/43] "[...] and spake thusly: 'Open up, you little sods!'"

In Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings there is a famous scene outside the dwarven mines of Moria, where invisible runes written on the door (and revealed by the wizard Gandalf) give our heroes the clue as to how to get the door to open, namely by saying the word 'friend'.

Lords and Ladies
[p. 367/264]"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, especially simian ones. They are not all that subtle."

Soul Music
[p. 35/27] "'Gimlet? Sounds dwarfish.'"

Good Omens
[p. 129/81] "Pepper's given first names were Pippin Galadriel Moonchild."

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