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You Wanna Attend THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING Score Extravaganza At Radio City Music Hall??
Merrick here...
...with our first contribution from Irish Rican - a new AICN operative I'll introduce more fully in the coming days.
Because he's so badass, he decided to give you something to celebrate his new association with AICN.
Read carefully...read on.
Hey everyone – Irish Rican here!
For two days only THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING will hit Radio City Music Hall for a truly unique experience. Howard Shore’s entire Academy Award winning score will be performed synchronized with the actual film. Conductor Ludwig Wicki will oversee over 300 musicians that include the 21st Century Orchestra, The Collegiate Chorale, and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus.
Can any fan of the symphony or geeked-out LOTR fan be more excited? With an entire LORD OF THE RINGS weekend planned around these two performances, the performance of this score looks ready to rock Radio City Music Hall.
There’s going to be pre-concert talks and post-concert signing sessions with Howard Shore and Doug Adams, with the weekend marking the official release of Adams’ new book The Music of the LORD OF THE RINGS. There’s also discussions with Tolkien linguist David Salo, who translated all choral lyrics for THE LORD OF THE RINGS scores and illustrator Colleen Doran (Ringers - a documentary about LOTR fans, A Distant Soil, Orbiter) will be on hand talking about her work. Plus more stuff to be announced! What more can you ask for???
How about a contest?
What better way to celebrate this amazing event than going to the actual show? We’re giving away TWO (2) tickets for the Friday, October 9th show to one lucky winner! There are also some amazing second and third prizes for some lucky people as well! But I’m going to make you work for the prizes!!!
How???
You all remember the battle between Gandolf the Grey and the fiery Balrog in THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING? Gandolf bested the beast with an amalgam of magic and ingenuity. How would you do against Balrog? How you fight the monster?
In 1,000 words of less tell me! Get creative! Be clever! Get your nerd-on! Use some correct spelling!
SEND YOUR ENTRIES HERE!!!
The contest is going to run from September 1st through September 25th and will be judged by myself and Peter Tatara from New York Comic Con. All entries must be received by 11:59PM (EST) on the 25th to be considered.
What can you win?
First Prize (1 winner)
2 Tickets to LOTR at Radio City –Friday October 9th at 7:30PM
1 Copy of Doug Adams’s THE MUSIC OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS by Alfred Publishing
1 Copy of THE HOBBIT Audio Book by BBC Audiobooks America
1 LORD OF THE RINGS Bookmark from Alfred Publishing
Second Prize (3 winners)
1 Copy of Doug Adams’s THE MUSIC OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS Book by Alfred Publishing
1 Copy of THE HOBBIT Audio Book by BBC Audiobooks America
1 LORD OF THE RINGS Bookmark from Alfred Publishing
Third Prize (10 winners)
1 LORD OF THE RINGS Bookmark from Alfred Publishing
So put your thinking caps on and get writing!!! Looking forward to reading all the entries!
You can learn more about the above events at: RadioCItyLOTRConcert.Com, NewYorkComicCon.Com, or RadioCity.Com.
And some fine print:
Ain’t It Cool is not paying for airfare or hotels to New York. You are only winning the tickets to the event, etc. If you are the first place winner be prepared to get to New York on your own. And no – you can’t crash at my house!
We are also happy to accept entries from all over the world but prizes will only be shipped within North America.
The contest sponsors are CAMI Music, New York Comic Con, Alfred Publishing, and BBC America Audio Books – we thank them for contributing all the great prizes for this amazing event.
SEND YOUR ENTRIES HERE!!!
Ain’t It Cool is not paying for airfare or hotels to New York. You are only winning the tickets to the event, etc. If you are the first place winner be prepared to get to New York on your own. And no – you can’t crash at my house!
We are also happy to accept entries from all over the world but prizes will only be shipped within North America.
The contest sponsors are CAMI Music, New York Comic Con, Alfred Publishing, and BBC America Audio Books – we thank them for contributing all the great prizes for this amazing event.
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He is the opposite of someone who sits through a LOTR marathon. Too many moves to make.
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1,000 words or less...really? Isn't that a little much?
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It was really good, but I didn't care for the drawings they would dhow during the concert. Also, it's mostly Two Towers music. But hey.
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I saw it there last year, too, when they did Fellowship. If you can go to this, GO! If anything, it's a real charge to be able to enjoy these movies with a full audience once again. You can't get that vibe from no Blu-Ray.
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no absolutely not. the trilogy is not aging very well - long-winded, pretentious, sappiness coming to the fore....
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Lord of the Rings was soooo 2001, 2002 and 2003.
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The films are not aging well at all, they're so heavy-handed. And one look at the scenes with Liv Tyler reveals why Tolkien left the whole Arwen subplot out of the book.
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and listen to some 'Lord of the Rings' music or I could sit in and masturbate. Hmmmmm, decisions decisions.
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when i was less stoned and was geeking out, then yes, i would
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Though, I gotta say, however boring and bloated The Two Towers and Return of the King were, I do think that Fellowship had something really special going on. It's just a shame they took the direction they did with the later films - long boring battle scenes, with less and less character stuff. Whereas the Potter films have done the opposite - in the last one there was very little action but loads of character, making it a film that I'm much more eager to watch again. God those battle scenes in ROTK were dull. None of the action came anywhere close to the Mines of Moria sequences, or the orc fight at the end of Fellowship.
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... if Shore's not conducting the event, I have no intention of seeing it. Even if John Williams (or Leopold-back from the dead) was doing it.
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what the fuck is up with the short sttention span-having nerd fits going on here???ashamed to be a geek today...shame on you all!
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Sep 02, 2009 10:40:48 AM CDT
Now, if this was a screening of EL CID with Miklos Rosza...
by mr gorilla
Then I'd be in.
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Whom I guess is Gandalf's slightly less well known younger brother.
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The later Potter films have had more character interaction scenes than action, but that doesn't mean there was character development going on or that those interaction scenes were even interesting. Much of the sixth movie was just "Oh, I think I like you, and I hate HER for liking you too!" Ugh, get to the plot! Anyway, about LOTR...I agree that Fellowship was the best and that the latter films became a bit heavy-handed, but they did have some great poetic scenes (Pippin's song over the horse charge, or Elrond's speech to Arwen in the Two Towers "An image of the splendor of the kings of men in glory, yadda yadda"). I wouldn't call them pretensious, though. Why would you say that, Flipster?
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Pippin's song over Faramir's charge is pretty awesome but any scene with Liv Tyler and Hugo Weaving just makes my teeth grind. Having Arwen change her mind every 5 minutes about whether or not she was leaving Middle-Earth really messed up Aragorn's and Arwen's love story.
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"the trilogy is not ageing well"
After not seeing the movies for several years Mrs Cobra and I rewatched all 3 Extended Editions over the course of a couple of weeks earlier this month. An hour here an hour there.
I was worried that I would be disappointed.. that the magic I felt when first seeing them would be gone.
...but fuck that. They were AWESOME. As Gorilla says, ROTK does drag a little, but as a complete trilogy LOTR simply is stellar. -
kwisa, Arwen only really changes her mind about leaving Middle Earth once.
When she is riding with a column of elves and sees a vision of the son she will never have playing in the trees and then being swept up in the arms of an aged Aragorn. Powerful fucking scene. No need for teeth grinding. -
Cobra-Kai, I totally agree about Arwen's vision of her son - a very touching moment. But at the same time, Arwen's storyline is far less interesting than the rest of the plot, so I can see why many people don't care for the scenes with her and Elrond. The reason I love the scene that I mentioned in my last post is because of its pure poetry and the beauty of the imagery: the slow pullback and fading across time as Arwen stands by Aragorn's grave, her veil blowing against the sky, the dead trees in the forest, the brief glimpse of an open field with a pink skyscape. And the language is so pretty. Love it. If the trilogy needs anything, it's a bit more subtlety. I don't agree with people who think EVERTHING is over-the-top, but some things could be toned down a bit, I think.
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You people are so out of date. LOTR Fotr in high def, with live orchestra and choir debuted at Wolf Trap last August!!! And the US premiere of The Two Towers in high def, with live orchestra, choir and a neat thunderstorm in the background was last weekend. So stop making such a big deal of something that has played all over the US. New York is getting it last.
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starlesswinter7, why '7' dude?
Just curious.
Also agree with you about the sequence that predicts what 'would' happen to Arwen. Great scene that works on a personal level (for Arwen) but also on a wider level for the whole of Middle Earth as it forsakes magic and enters the 'age of men'. -
FUCK NO! The Two Towers is bloated, boring and pointless and ROTK has 28 endings. Fuck that with walnuts. I'll take me Star Wars/Trek flicks and be a happy geek. No pretense needed.
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What is that, a freakin' muppet?
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Yeah, but if she didn't see the vision of her son then she would have forsaken Aragorn's love and left Middle-Earth. Plus it makes out that the son is the only reason she decides to stay, not Aragorn. Whereas in the book it is Aragorn and Arwen's love that drives Aragorn's whole quest to defeat Sauron. Just didn't work for me in the films, when you think about it long enough it falls apart.
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compared to most of the shit we get shovelled these days the LOTR films are indeed masterpieces.
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I'd take it over Star Wars any day. Prequels and Original.
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I don't think the son alone is what makes Arwen stay. It's the idea that since she will have a son, she will live a happy life with the man she loves and her eventual family. She doesn't stay just for the son; rather, what the son represents for her - which is the future.
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I've recently had to cancel a trip to NYC with my girlfriend in October, and have a pair of 2nd mezzanine tickets for this show on eBay right now. If you get them at the buy it now price, it's about 15% less than I paid.
http://tinyurl.com/mjv3tj
It's just an option, folks, so please don't flame me. I probably won't read it if you do, anyway.
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