X-Nico

unusual facts about Lord of the Rings



Canada–New Zealand relations

Whale Rider won then People's Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival in 2002 and nine out of the ten top grossing centres in North America for New Zealand's Lord of the Rings were in Canada.

Carlton Draught: Big Ad

Big Ad parodies the visual style of battle sequences in such films as Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy with sweeping, larger-than-life panoramas of rugged mountain terrain.

Cooperative board game

Early developers of popular cooperative board games include Jim Deacove of Family Pastimes (inventor of Max the Cat) and Ken Kolsbun of Child and Nature (inventor of Save the Whales.) In 2000, Reiner Knizia published Lord of the Rings which influenced a number of subsequent titles, including Shadows Over Camelot, and Battlestar Galactica.

Edward Wyke Smith

J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings is known to have read, The Marvellous Land of Snergs to his children.

Glen Schofield

Moving to EA Redwood Studios as general manager of the company's Visceral Games, he collaborated with Bret Robbins, including the popular Lord of the Rings video series and 007: From Russia with Love.

Martin Taras

Taras also served as animator and/or designer for television programs such as Batfink, Spider-Man (The 1967 series), Josie and the Pussycats, Super Friends; and for theatrical motion pictures such as Fritz The Cat, Lord of the Rings, and Wizards.

NeoPlanet

Throughout 2000, NeoPlanet garnered partnerships to market and distribute branded browsers with major companies in the entertainment, computer manufacturing and sports arenas, including Universal Studios, Interscope/Geffen/A&M Records, USA Networks, MTV, Lord of the Rings, TV Guide, Hewlett Packard, Carolina Hurricanes and Phoenix Coyotes.

Poongsan

Tim Starnes, whose credits include The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and the second and third of the Lord of the Rings franchise, edited the soundtrack.

The Oxford English Centre

Among those who have lived and worked in the local area are the author of Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien, also Iris Murdoch, T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), Philip Pullman, Crime writers PD James and Colin Dexter (author of the Inspector Morse series), the poet Philip Larkin, and more recently novelist and screenwriter Ian McEwan (Atonement).


see also

Battle B-Daman

Marda B.'s evil form seems to be one giant flaming eye (which is very similar in appearance to the eye of Sauron from Lord of the Rings) that always seemed to be floating in the sky.

Bay Raitt

Raitt and his colleagues, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, and Ken McGaugh, won the Visual Effects Society Award for Best Character Animation in a Live Action Motion Picture for their work on The Lord of the Rings.

Citadel Miniatures

Games Workshop re-won the Lord of the Rings licence, allowing them to make The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game miniatures to tie-in with the trilogy of films released by New Line Cinema, and have extended the range to include characters based on the actual writings of J. R. R. Tolkien.

Dáin II Ironfoot

This name and a similar description (not appearing in Tolkien) are also used in the Games Workshop Lord of the Rings Table Top game, and the axe has its own set of rules.

Déagol

In Peter Jackson's 2001–2003 live-action adaptations of The Lord of the Rings, Déagol is played by New Zealand actor Thomas Robins.

Dominion of Men

However, through notes and letters of Tolkien, a great deal of it published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien, as well as in passages from the Annals of the Kings and Rulers (An appendix of The Return of the King) and other portions of The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, some events can be defined.

FoxTrot

On occasion, there have been a few celebrity guest appearances in the strip, such as The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson and Apple CEO Steve Jobs.

Gamgee

Samwise Gamgee, member of the family and one of the main characters in The Lord of the Rings

George Vasilakos

In the past, George has been the art direct and graphic designer for Last Unicorn Games, Wizards of the Coast and Decipher, working on the Star Trek and Lord of the Rings RPGs.

Gil-galad

In the Lord of the Rings film trilogy by Peter Jackson, Gil-galad is portrayed by actor Mark Ferguson and appears very briefly in The Fellowship of the Ring during the opening prologue sequence, however for the most part Elrond is considered the Elves' commander as he is giving orders.

Gondour

For the kingdom in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, see Gondor.

Jordan Reyne

She also performed as a vocalist on one of the scenes in Peter Jackson's second Lord of the Rings film, in a scene that depicted Theodred's funeral.

Longshanks

An alias of Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

May It Be

Director Peter Jackson approached Enya, asking if she would be interested in writing a song for The Lord of the Rings.

Memories of Middle Earth

The album was released two years after the band saw much success with its song "Tolkien (The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings)" from the album Songs of the Muse.

Meriadoc Brandybuck

In Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated version of The Lord of the Rings, Merry was voiced by Simon Chandler.

Minor battles in The Lord of the Rings

Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated version of The Lord of the Rings follows the book faithfully, even keeping its structure.

Not All Who Wander Are Lost

"Not all those who wander are lost", a line from the poem All that is gold does not glitter, written by J. R. R. Tolkien for The Lord of the Rings.

Redhorn

Caradhras, a mountain in the Misty Mountains in the Lord of the Rings

Rob Inglis

It was through his one-man stage adaptions that he was noticed by Recorded Books and asked to narrate an unabridged edition of Lord of the Rings (1990) and later The Hobbit (1991).

Saga

J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings series was translated into Swedish by Åke Ohlmarks by the title Sagan om ringen: "The Saga of the Ring" and to Icelandic by Þorsteinn Thorarensen by the title Hringadróttins saga: "Saga of the Lord of the Rings".

Second Age

Appendix A of The Lord of the Rings contains genealogies of the royal house of Númenor, and several sections of Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth deal extensively with Númenor and several of its kings.

Sharku

Saruman, a character in J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings, called Sharkû by the Orcs

Silvan Elves

According to notes made by Tolkien after the publication of Lord of the Rings and found in Unfinished Tales, Oropher, the Sindarin king of the Silvan Elves of Mirkwood, or Greenwood the Great as it was then known, raised a large force as part of the Last Alliance to overthrow Sauron.

Taliska

During the writing of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien toyed with the idea of making Taliska the primordial tongue of the people of Rohan who spoke Old English in his translated setting of The Lord of the Rings.

The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game

The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game (a.k.a. LOTR TCG) is a collectible card game produced by Decipher, Inc. Released November 2001, it is based on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy and the J. R. R. Tolkien novel on which the films were based.

The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion

The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion (2005) is a nonfiction book written by scholars Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull.

Reprinted for the first time since 1980, and corrected and expanded, is Tolkien's Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings (previously referred to as Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings), an index of persons, places, and things designed to aid the translator in rendering Tolkien's work into foreign languages.

The Red Star

This series is colored by the Weta Workshop Design Team, known previously for their film work on The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, King Kong, and The Chronicles of Narnia.

Theodred

Théodred, a character in The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

TheOneRing.net

Over 1,500 "Ringers" (Lord of the Rings fans) from around the world came to the TheOneRing.net Oscar Party at the Hollywood, CA, American Legion on February 28, 2004.

Translation of The Lord of the Rings into Swedish

In 2007, Andersson together with John Swedenmark translated The Hobbit, making it the third Swedish translation of this book, but the first time that The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were available in Swedish from the same translator.

Walking Tree Publishers

Martin Simonson, The Lord of the Rings and the Western Narrative Tradition (2009), ISBN 978-3-905703-09-2

Westron

From these early trade outposts and forts Westron spread throughout Eriador and neighbouring lands (where the action of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings take place), with the notable exception of Mordor.

Wormtongue

Gríma Wormtongue, a fictional character by a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings