Via James Hudnall comes this link to some (small) scans from a calendar for the last installment of LOTR. Take a gander: so far so good, I say. (I dunno how long these will be up. I don't know if Onering.net leaves everything up in its "spy" section or if the link rots after a while; that is, if they will have to take this stuff down like the site they got it from did.)
Update: on the front page of the Onering.net site are links to higher resolution pictures; get 'em while they're hot: Aragorn (almost groomed!), Arwen (dreamy), Gandalf (badass!) Gollum (looks rather like an earlier conception of Gollum to me), Sam & Frodo (this one's for you, Sean!). Apparently these are "promotional" items that are for industry people only. Or that would have been the case if not for the internet. Now all your "exclusive freebies" are belong to us.
Posted by Andrea Harris at January 7, 2003 03:08 PMSo there's the pics! I went to the original link over the weekend, but there was nothing there. I'm glad to be able to finally see them.
Looks good! I would love to have that calendar.
Posted by: Ith at January 7, 2003 at 03:16 PMThey're ok, but I still have my LOTR calendars that were illustrated by the Hildrebrandt Brothers back in the 1970's. And they're still amazing.
Posted by: Chip Haynes at January 7, 2003 at 03:22 PMI got the book that was published about their LotR calendars, and they were amazing. Some of them were even seminal in my images of how things should look in Middle-Earth.
On the other hand ... Rivendell as a ginger-bread house?
Posted by: *** Dave at January 7, 2003 at 04:11 PMI have those calendars too. And the one from the Bakshi movie, and the other art ones. I'm a pack rat!
Posted by: Ith at January 7, 2003 at 04:14 PMWow, that shot of Sam and Frodo is the gayest one yet.
Yea!
Posted by: Sean Kirby at January 8, 2003 at 12:00 AM