From: "O. Sharp" Newsgroups: rec.arts.books.tolkien Subject: Extraordinary Movie Quote Date: 27 Jul 2000 01:25:41 GMT Organization: Or, Perhaps, "Horror" Lines: 35 Message-ID: <8lo32l$p9l$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: c7.b7.09.72 User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-19990517 ("Psychonaut") (UNIX) (SunOS/4.1.4 (sun4m)) Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.nextra.ch!news1.sunrise.ch!news.imp.ch!psinet-eu-nl!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!firehose.mindspring.com!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch rec.arts.books.tolkien:24648 I found this out in an e-mail this morning, and it's had me snickering to myself all day. I only have a moment to drop by right now (though my newsreader tells me there's a LOT I need to catch up on), but I just had to post this for you all. :) This is from an interview with Cate Blanchett, in the illustrious and well-respected London _Times_ 0f 26 July 2000, where the full article can be found at http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/07/26/timartcin01001.html and the following quote can be found in the fourth paragraph... 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. It's a small but memorable part, and Blanchett lobbied hard for it. ...So what, pray, does this mean for the _rest_ of the movie?! Is Gandalf going to fight Radagast to the death? Will Denethor and his brother Boromir try to conquer the Shire? Will Glorfindel, indeed, set fire to the grasslands? Will Eowyn save Aragorn from the Witch-king, and will Faramir become King of Gondor? I suspect it was just a reporter with a deadline, who read the first web-page his search engine provided for "Lord Rings synopsis". But still, it _does_ raise some interesting possibilities. Think I should ask Mr. Jackson for some royalty payments? :) :) (For the uninitiated, see http://www.speakeasy.org/~ohh/homework.htm .) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ohh@netcom.com I've been published in the London _Times_! What an honor. :) ###### Message-ID: <398059CD.90D82CD@yahoo.com> From: Opal Drake Reply-To: opalSPAMdrake@yahooBLOCK.com Organization: Left Wing Enterprises X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: rec.arts.books.tolkien Subject: Re: Extraordinary Movie Quote References: <8lo32l$p9l$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 22 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:47:10 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.69.130.35 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: sea-read.news.verio.net 964712830 206.69.130.35 (Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:47:10 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:47:10 GMT Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.nextra.ch!news1.sunrise.ch!news.imp.ch!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!sea-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch rec.arts.books.tolkien:24670 "O. Sharp" wrote: > For the uninitiated, Galadriel is the good sister of the evil > but beautiful Queen Beruthiel, who imprisons the > Fellowship of the Ring in the forest of Lothlorien. In the > book, Galadriel frees them from her sister's clutches. It's a > small but memorable part, and Blanchett lobbied hard for it. Deliberate misinformation? This is, after all, a *British* newspaper. [snicker] -- ****************************************************** The Opal Dragon To E-mail me, remove 'SPAM BLOCK' from return address. ###### From: Robert Brady Newsgroups: rec.arts.books.tolkien Subject: Re: Extraordinary Movie Quote Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 15:48:49 +0100 Organization: Customer of Energis Squared Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <8lo32l$p9l$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-125.plutonium.dialup.pol.co.uk X-Trace: news6.svr.pol.co.uk 965058872 7243 62.136.66.253 (31 Jul 2000 15:54:32 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Jul 2000 15:54:32 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse@theplanet.net User-Agent: tin/1.4.2-20000205 ("Possession") (UNIX) (Linux/2.2.16 (i586)) Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.nextra.ch!news1.sunrise.ch!news.imp.ch!psinet-eu-nl!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!diablo.theplanet.net!news.theplanet.net!newspost.theplanet.net!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch rec.arts.books.tolkien:24872 O. Sharp wrote: > I suspect it was just a reporter with a deadline, who read the first > web-page his search engine provided for "Lord Rings synopsis". But still, > it _does_ raise some interesting possibilities. Think I should ask Mr. > Jackson for some royalty payments? :) :) Folks in the UK might want to check "Pandora", page 5 of the Review section of _the Independent_ (of 31st July). I don't think this is on the online version. (or at least I couldn't find it - feel free to try looking for it somewhere at ) -- Robert ###### From: "Daniel Roseman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.books.tolkien Subject: Re: Extraordinary Movie Quote Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 10:09:17 +0100 Message-ID: <965120963.17461.0.nnrp-12.c2d93896@news.demon.co.uk> References: <8lo32l$p9l$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: [194.217.56.150] X-NNTP-Posting-Host: [194.217.56.150]:194.217.56.150 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 965120963 nnrp-12:17461 NO-IDENT [194.217.56.150]:194.217.56.150 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Lines: 43 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newsfeed.icl.net!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!news.demon.co.uk!demon![194.217.56.150]!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch rec.arts.books.tolkien:24979 "Robert Brady" wrote in message news:hk34m8.883.ln@janus.arrow... > O. Sharp wrote: > > I suspect it was just a reporter with a deadline, who read the first > > web-page his search engine provided for "Lord Rings synopsis". But still, > > it _does_ raise some interesting possibilities. Think I should ask Mr. > > Jackson for some royalty payments? :) :) > > Folks in the UK might want to check "Pandora", page 5 of the Review > section of _the Independent_ (of 31st July). I don't think this is on the > online version. (or at least I couldn't find it - feel free to try looking > for it somewhere at ) > > -- > Robert Pandora is the Independent's diary column. "The language does not sound like any I've attempted before. It's like Klingon." So Cate Blanchett tells _The Times_, of her role as Galadriel the Elf Queen in Lord of the Rings. But some fans reckon the paper should have improved its own Tolkienese before explaining the plot. "For the uninitiated," it begins, patronisingly, "Galadriel is the good sister of the evil Queen Beruthiel, who imprisons the Fellowship in the forest of Lothlorien. In the book Galadriel frees them from her clutches." Wrong! And yet, strangely familiar. Pandora recalls a "Tolkien sarcasm site" at www.speakeasy.org, which provides crib sheets and synopses for the terminally lazy. Here, tetchy compilers, at the end of their tether with homework avoiders, mislead the uninformed with phoney precis. Unfortunately, the dear old _Times_ seems to have fallen for them hook, line and sinker. "They are pastiches," explains Tolkien society spokesman, Ian Collier, "and completely incorrect". The next item talks about the same Ian Collier's dispute with The Sunday Times "over a yarn it spun last month about Tolkien fans being upset about the new movie". -- Daniel.