Mock trial set for "The Lord of the Rings" director
WAX2002020201 - 02 FEBRUARY 2002 - YPSILANTI, MICHIGAN, USA: Defense attorney and literature professor Henry Russell, Ph.D., will serve as prosecutor during a mock trial on Feb. 7, 2002, at Ave Maria College, of Peter Jackson "for the desecration of 'The Lord of the Rings.'" The question is wether Jackson's movie rendition of the popular J. R. R. Tolkien trilogy passes muster with tried-and-true Tolkien fans. rlw/HO UPI..
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand, April 25 (UPI) -- Filmmaker Peter Jackson announced via Facebook British actor Rob Kazinsky has quit his two-part movie production of "The Hobbit."
WESTFORD, Mass., March 24 (UPI) -- J.R.R. Tolkien fans from across the country are gathering in a Massachusetts town for the "3rd Conference on Middle-Earth," decades after the previous event.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, March 21 (UPI) -- Warner Bros. says production has begun in New Zealand on "The Hobbit," writer-director Peter Jackson's two-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy novel.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Movie director Peter Jackson has been discharged from a New Zealand hospital where he underwent surgery for a perforated ulcer, TVNZ reported Thursday.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. actor Elijah Wood is to reprise his role as Frodo Baggins in the two-part film adaptation of the fantasy novel "The Hobbit," EW.com reported Friday.
