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lcummins
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First off...
1000th Post!
Ok, now that that is out of the way...
Some of the Austin group, Adam (DSC), Machael (Migwit), Debbie (Nazgurl), Jamie (Oty) and I, went to the LOTR Exhibition in Houston on Saturday, followed by the Lord of the Rings Symphony. John (Elros) couldn't join us as he went on Friday as part of his vacation on the way to SDCC. All I can say is, if you can manage to get to the Exhibition in either of the two cities it will travel to in the US, do it! It was well worth the three hour drive! And if the Lord of the Rings Symphony happens to come to a city near you, it is also well worth going. At the symphony, we stumbled across Danny (TheWitchKing), who also went to the Exhibition and Symphony on Saturday.
Some of the highlights of the Exhibition for me were several pieces of original artwork from Alan Lee and John Howe, as well as several other artists who worked on the films. These pieces included original pencils, watercolors, acrylics and digital images. The original watercolors for the Alan Lee Rivendale print and John Howe Barad-Dur print were part of the exhibit and I have an even greater respect for the Sideshow prints now after having seen how close they come to reproducing the originals! There was also a John Howe watercolor of Gandalf arriving at Bag-End that would have made a spectacular print from Sideshow!
Other memorable pieces include Hobbiton Mill, Barad-Dur and Orthanc miniatures; 1:1 scale Cave Troll; costumes and weapons of Aragorn, Gandalf, Frodo, Arwen, etc.; armor and helms, including Sauron's armor; and all the important rings from the movies, including the Ringwraiths', Elrond's, Galadriel's, Gandalf's, Aragorn's and of course, the One Ring! The funniest and yet, most disturbing display was a case crammed full of prosthetics of orc ears, teeth, faces, hair, etc. It looked like a bunch of orcs from Helm's Deep were put in a compactor and compressed down!
Our only disappointment was that since no pictures were allowed, they missed a golden opportunity to have a guide or book filled with pictures from the exhibition for sale. Also, they had no CDs for sale at the Symphony, and Adam and I both were looking to pick up some.
I am planning to try to go see the exhibition again before it leaves; I hope everyone who can, get to go see it.
1000th Post!
Ok, now that that is out of the way...
Some of the Austin group, Adam (DSC), Machael (Migwit), Debbie (Nazgurl), Jamie (Oty) and I, went to the LOTR Exhibition in Houston on Saturday, followed by the Lord of the Rings Symphony. John (Elros) couldn't join us as he went on Friday as part of his vacation on the way to SDCC. All I can say is, if you can manage to get to the Exhibition in either of the two cities it will travel to in the US, do it! It was well worth the three hour drive! And if the Lord of the Rings Symphony happens to come to a city near you, it is also well worth going. At the symphony, we stumbled across Danny (TheWitchKing), who also went to the Exhibition and Symphony on Saturday.
Some of the highlights of the Exhibition for me were several pieces of original artwork from Alan Lee and John Howe, as well as several other artists who worked on the films. These pieces included original pencils, watercolors, acrylics and digital images. The original watercolors for the Alan Lee Rivendale print and John Howe Barad-Dur print were part of the exhibit and I have an even greater respect for the Sideshow prints now after having seen how close they come to reproducing the originals! There was also a John Howe watercolor of Gandalf arriving at Bag-End that would have made a spectacular print from Sideshow!
Other memorable pieces include Hobbiton Mill, Barad-Dur and Orthanc miniatures; 1:1 scale Cave Troll; costumes and weapons of Aragorn, Gandalf, Frodo, Arwen, etc.; armor and helms, including Sauron's armor; and all the important rings from the movies, including the Ringwraiths', Elrond's, Galadriel's, Gandalf's, Aragorn's and of course, the One Ring! The funniest and yet, most disturbing display was a case crammed full of prosthetics of orc ears, teeth, faces, hair, etc. It looked like a bunch of orcs from Helm's Deep were put in a compactor and compressed down!
Our only disappointment was that since no pictures were allowed, they missed a golden opportunity to have a guide or book filled with pictures from the exhibition for sale. Also, they had no CDs for sale at the Symphony, and Adam and I both were looking to pick up some.
I am planning to try to go see the exhibition again before it leaves; I hope everyone who can, get to go see it.