From: Ant

In case you haven’t seen this the one of the screenwriters for the LOTR movies will be a special guest at the 32nd Annual Mythopoeic Conference this August. Check out the details here.

Some LOTR castmembers have been busy with other projects as of late, and some of the news is catching up on the web.

The new Sean Bean (Boromir) film ‘EQUILIBRIUM’ has a spoiler rich review over on AICN. [More]

The Matrix sequel ‘Reloaded’ has been filming in California for a while, check out some behind the scenes pics of the latest Hugo Weaving (Elrond) film. [More]

From: David

America On Line has an opening page “commercial” for LOTR. It features links to some sites, a commentary on the 20 minutes of footage shown at Cannes (and apparently in New York too!), some stills, and the trailer.

From: Odin

I was reading the biggest tabloid paper in norway this morning, and when I got to the cartoon pages I saw this:

A norwegian cartoon character called Nemi was sleeping outside the theatre in a sleeping bag when this guy from the ticket box shouted something like “hey! wake up, you can’t sleep here! I’ve told you a million times; The Lord Of The Rings doesn’t release until december!” [More]