Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

More Hobbit news

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 11:45 am
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From TORn:


Guillermo del Toro reaches out to TORn


TheOneRing.net reported here at the end of January that Guillermo del Toro was 99 percent sure to direct “The Hobbit”. Since then the Tolkien Estate filed a lawsuit against New Line Cinema (a copy of which can be found here) and the movie studio has been folded up and put in the pocket of its owner Warner Bros. and its bigger parent Time Warner Inc.

After all the speculation and angst, the director of two “Hellboy” films (the second set for a July 11 release) still seems to be the top choice for director and despite the legal uncertainty, the quiet movements by the key players seem to suggest the film will still be made and sooner rather than later. So in this season of waiting, TORn was finally able to contact the fan-friendly director.

“At this stage anything I say is of no consequence for I am not yet signed to do “The Hobbit.” Negotiations advance but are still ongoing,” he said.

The Mexican born director is busy however researching not only the Hobbit but the greater J.R.R. Tolkien library.

“All I can say is that I am diligently going through all Tolkien material related to Middle-earth but only as a way of bridging a gap in my reading. I still respond the strongest to “The Hobbit,” but as an avid reader of Mythology I find a lot of his other writings fascinating. A perfect Cosmology forged from very eclectic sources,” he said.

He described himself as a bibliophile and his study of Tolkien’s mythology fits in with his passion for myth.

“I bought my first book at age 4 and my last one, last week an original pamphlet edition of Calmet’s (Augustine Calmet) dissertation on Ghosts and vampires from the 18th century.”

The director embraces Internet communities and has his own fan site at www.Deltorofilms.com where he participates and corresponds with fans.

“It is my belief that your community will be a joy to be a part of, whether I do “The Hobbit,” or not,” he said.


Good to see New Line is going ahead with their plans to make this film, and WB is not cowed by the pending lawsuit. If we're lucky, they'll get the thing in the can before legal matters put a stop to the proceedings. Cross your fingers!

Question

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 11:53 am
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So LJ has refurbished the Tags Management Page. this is a good thing, especially since they've now made it possible to remove tags from your list. (I've had a couple of misspelled tags hanging on there for at least a year!) It's more flexible, so great.

My question is: on the list of tags, there's a little arrow before each tag. What's it there for, and what does the coloring of the arrows mean? At first I thought it was for how many entries are tagged with that specific tag, but the FAQ says you're allowed up to 1000 entries for each tag, and the ones that have "full" arrows don't have even a tenth that many entries tagged with them.

So does anyone know what's up with those colors? The FAQ doesn't mention the coloring at all.

A nice visit

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 03:11 pm
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Zeke came by today. He's discovered my rocking chair, and thinks it's pretty cool. Of course, whenever I catch him in it he leaps off, as if he just landed there by accident. Can't have me thinking he actually likes it, of course.

Nice? Maybe nice isn't the right word. Cool. Yeah, that's much more Zeke.

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