Heads up all you LotR gamers!! You don’t want to miss this: Decipher News Flash! DECIPHERCON 2001: GUEST LIST TO INCLUDE HOBBITS, ORCS, WIZARDS… I had better brush up my feet for this one… DarthCaesar has [More].

Simon sends in another gem:

In the latest Empire magazine (Australian edition) there is a picture of two Black Riders in Hobbiton (looks like just outside Bag End in fact!)I’ve never seen this picture before…

We’re still waiting to see it! 🙂

From: Gothmog and Missus

The September 2001 issue of Total Film magazine has a short item on FOTR in it’s First Look section. No new info, or pics. Just the amusing/heart attack inducing typo at the head of the text. The release date. Its says 3rd of August. That’s this Friday! Alas the text reiterates the release in Dec as we all know!

If you have scans of this article send it along!

Go out and vote for LOTR at Buzz Bin, Crusade writes:

It seems that Movies.com has a “Buzz Meter” for people to rank movies that they are getting excited about. [More]

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Electronic Arts has signed a contract with New Line Cinema to develop a series of games based on The Lord of the Rings motion picture franchise, an Electronic Arts spokesman told The Hollywood Reporter. [More]

Thanks to a sad Ed M for the tip!

From: LC

While making my daily rounds on the oldmanmurray.com message boards, I came upon this little item. Fairly interesting, though not groundbreaking stuff. Slight language alert, as is typical at oldmanmurray.com.

They were planning on a turnout of about 9,000. They found out the night before {Tuesday} they were down about 3,000, which meant a 3 hour delay on the start time while they scoured the schools. They arrived at Victoria Uni, both Open and Wellington Polytechs and every high school within an hours drive, in about 30 buses and army trucks and said hop in. [More]