All Shall Love Me and Despair

227 pics from the Saturday are now online!

http://www.ourdramaqueen.com/gallery/2007-10-13

Unfortunately it was very difficult to get decent pictures of Andy because he was constantly moving, so most of him are slightly blurry, but there are a couple of decent ones.

Two down, one more to go... :)


PS: I also put up the pictures from the event on 2. September 2007 with John Howe and Alan Lee in St-Ursanne, Switzerland here and from the (Green Street) Hooligans premiere (with a side of Joss Whedon and Nathan Fillion) at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2005 here.

Check out this tidbit from TORn:

ROTK Complete Recordings Out this Fall?

9/01/07, 11:17 am EST - Xoanon

Howard Shore's official site has an intriguing image in the news section. It states 'ROTK Complete Recordings Coming Fall 2007'. Anyone with more news about this should drop us a line!

The image in question can be found on the bottom right here. omgyespleeeeeeeeeeeease!!!


Also via TORn, for those who have read/are reading/are interested in Kristin Thompson's book "The Frodo Franchise", she has started a blog. ( Read more... )


Will meet up with shirasade tomorrow to go see John Howe's exhibition in St-Ursanne, and to get his autograph - and Alan Lee's. *bounce* It will mean spending most of the day on the train, but I'm very much looking forward to it, also because St-Ursanne is a medieval town, so I hope I'll have time to take a few pictures with my shiny new camera - also of the statues they have put all over town, based on John's artwork. You can read John's thoughts on the end of the all-summer exhibition and series of events at his blog.

I just hope that the headache I woke up with today will have gone by tomorrow morning. That would be hell on the train. If it's not gone by sometime in the evening I guess I'll ask my sister if she could give me a brief Bowtech treatment - that always helps.

Back from Lucerne. Actually I have been back for the last 8 hours and roughly 25 minutes already, but spent them in bed and then in the bath, because I didn't sleep well at all last night. The LotR Symphony was amazing though! Quite a lot of the time both shirasade and I had goosebumps - right at the beginning for example - and oh yes there were tears in my eyes at several points during the concert too. I have to say thank goodness the female soloist's rendition of "Into the West" didn't make me feel as weepy as the original does, or I'd have been sobbing instead of just teary. :)

Oh, and before the concert, when we walked through the entrance hall towards the stairs (we were on the 4th balcony), John Howe walked past us! Obviously he was also there to listen to the Symphony. That was actually the second celebrity sighting we had that evening, because earlier while we were looking for a restaurant with normal priced food for dinner, we saw Kurt Aeschbacher, one of the more prominent and long-lasting TV personalities in Switzerland.

Right, I better go look for some dinner before I keel over...

A film about Glastonbury!

Found it by way of the website for the in-production documentary Reclaiming the Blade - narrated by John Rhys-Davies, and featuring John Howe, Bob Anderson, Richard Taylor and probably others involved in LotR! :D