Numenor Film Announced!
 

Just heard on the BBC website, New Line have acquired the rights. Not much details have been announced yet, but apparently they've got Jeremy Irons as Ar-Pharazon and David Tennant as Isildur. :D

As April fools go, this was rather imaginative. :smokin:

Is it a tradition to play a joke on April 1st? I must get into it next year...

Check out this lovely thread from April 1, 5 years ago: Lush's strange encounter...

Nation shall speak nonsense unto Nation
 

Whilst Lush is indeed a mistress of April prankery, there are spoof news items going back long before her gulling of the forum.

The BBC started its tradition of April Fool's jokes in 1957, when Panorama reported on the Ticino spaghetti harvest. The involvement of Richard Dimbleby as narrator fooled many people, and a number requests were received for information about buying and cultivating spaghetti bushes.

National Public Radio has been inserting a hoax story into its April 1 news for many years now. The best I recall was a feature piece on 'mouth sounds,' a fellow who could mimic all sorts of things from chickens and horses to steam locomotives and F-16s. Only towards the end, when the sound effects got preposterous and the 'artist' was discussing how hard it was to do stereo did it dawn on me that my leg was being pulled.

Spotted on first post... :mad: ...must try harder next year...

I remeber a memorable one in the Scotsman newspaper lastyear when the European Commision was making all the names in Scotland politically correct so like the Black Isle would be turned into the Shaded Isle or something like that. I must admit I got really annoyed at those meddling bureaucrats in Brussels for, oh I say about 2 hours... :o :D

Cannot wait to see that NUMENOR movie. I favor Adam Sandler as Sauron.

NPR's story today was about New York City abolishing musical phone ring tones in favor of four that were chosen by a committee of sound experts. They said that each year fights start over people being offended at others choice of ring tones and it was costing the city over 1.5 billion $ each year in law enforcement costs and loss of tourism. They played the four selected and they were terrible.

I had to agree with one of the people on the street who said in response "they should ban all these things."