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Apple updates 2nd LoTR trailer?

October 24, 2001 at 20:14:10

Dave M. wrote to tell us that Apple has updated its 'Fellowship of the Ring' trailer, which is now available for permanent download in two archive formats.

"This is same trailer, but it seems to have been slightly altered," he tells us. "The audio sounds clearer or perhaps it has been re-dubbed, in particular when Gandalf speaks. Some of video of orcs seems altered as well. Gollum's voice, I think, has also been re-dubbed. "At end, rather than a hiss, he kinda gurgles, and some new quick cuts of various things at end."

The trailer may now be downloaded in ZIP and SIT format, thus making the viewing experience much easier for many fans who still don't have high-speed Internet access. And obviously copyright concerns which previously led New Line Cinema and its distribution partners to attempt to foil fan efforts to save the trailers permanently (or offer them on other Web sites) have been given a lower priority.

We were unable to access the largest screen size version of the trailer when we checked the site, but the medium size trailer was quick to download. The trailer is officially called "Teaser 3". Click on the link below to see Apple's page.

"The Fellowship of the Ring", the first of three movies produced by New Zealand writer/director Peter Jackson as an adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, will premier in London on December 10. It hits theaters in the United States and Canada on December 19, and will be released in other parts of the world on or after that date.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/lord_of_the_rings/teaser3.html