Monday, March 18, 2002
LOTR Fandom: Tokyo - Xoanon @ 10:41 PST
Areiel writes: I went to Tokyo last week, and FOTR was still going strong in the theaters there, so I decided to pop in and catch another viewing of the show. It was wonderful of course, and still managed to leave me in tears. But the amazing thing was how much cool stuff was on sale. They had for sale right in the theater:

-Two t-shirts, one with Frodo, and one with a montage of Saruman, Lurtz, and the Witch-king, both on black backgrounds
-A folio containing A4-size versions of all three major movie posters
-Tin badges of each of the major characters
-Various pens, notepads, mousepads, etc.

But the coolest thing they had was a lapel-pin rendering of the Lorien brooch, for only 500 yen (about US$4.25). Needless to say, I picked up a few for friends and so forth. I'll send in a scan this weekend. If any of you have friends in Japan, have them get you one of these.