The list of clips from the Searching for the Hobbit documentary is getting longer and longer. The most recent additions are a brief interview with a guy who’s really proud of his Tolkien tattoo (but what IS it?) as well as our own eloquent Greenbooks man Quickbeam who gives a nice summary of the Tolkien community and my own laughable attempt to summarise 15,000 words in 45 seconds. [More]

Good news for Dutch LOTR-fans! It took them a while, but finally the Dutch distributor for Lord of the Rings decided to release the teaser trailer over there too. It will be attached to a Dutch production called Costa, which is set to release thursday. The full story is over at our Dutch community site LordoftheRings.nl. Watch out, jaw-breaker alert! [More]

Ringer fan Eryndur spotted this very interesting article in today’s Chicago Sun-Times. The article compares the Philip Morris Company and its advertising tactics to the One Ring and its hold over the noble peoples of Middle-Earth. [More]

A cardboard stand-up of Saruman (Christopher Lee) at Ebay? UPDATE [More]

Thanks to Morrigan we can report on a new interview at Lord of the Rings :

There is a new interview with the Wardrobe Supervisor, Carolyn Fenton. The interview contains an image from the Council of Elrond…“[More]