This is it! The last day to vote on Houghton Mifflin’s LOTR cover for the LOTR Gift Set. With 43.9% of the vote, it looks like Rivendell will be taking the cake, so to speak, but it is not to late for Minas Tirith or Frodo to come back! And don’t forget, place your vote and you could win the gift set for free! [Vote]
Day: June 22, 2003
Each week, I scour Ebay looking for the hot Tolkien items up for sale. I post the most interesting here for you to bid on! [More] [Shop]
Irascian writes: July SFX magazine has 7 pages of ROTK pictures they claim this is an SFX exclusive although this mainly seems to be a printed copy of all the photos recently posted by TORN. Theres no real news just the pictures, the same issue has coverage of the recent Readers Awards ceremony where LOTR won lots of categories and features a picture of Brian Sibley collecting his award for Best SF-Related Non Fiction Book. [More]
WeeTanya writes: Ian McKellen’s official site has a transcription of an interview he did about his upcoming movie, ‘Emile’. [More]
You can also read what Ian had to say about ‘Emile’ while still in Vancouver shooting ‘X2’ in our exclusive interview with him. [More]
Alquawen writes: Not only is genius filmmaker Ray Harryhausen about to get a long deserved star on the Hollywood walk of fame, but apparently Patty Duke, mother of our own Sean Astin (Sam) will also be so honored this year. [More]

Stanlea writes: Here is an article on Orlando Bloom (Legolas) in the July issue of British Vogue, it talks mainly about “Pirates of the Caribbean”. [More]