The folks at New Line write: I wanted to take the opportunity to personally thank you for your votes in the first ever Online Voter’s Choice for The Hollywood Key Art Awards. Thanks to your dedication, the official website not only received the industry panel award, but the Online award as well!

According to our friends at the Hollywood Reporter, the votes for our site exceeded the others by several hundred – and we know that is due to the passion and loyalty of the fans.

We really appreciate your support. Stay tuned for a new poster and trailer soon for the next installment, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King!

Vorsir writes: I just wanted to let you know the magazine “Red Carpet” has a 2 page comic on Mark Ordeskys passion on LOTR, even goes to show how they called him Frodo in High School.

Anyone with scans of the article, send them along!

Robert sends along the good word that the Italian Tolkien fans can expect ‘Return of the King’ to open in December of this year instead of a month later like the past 2 years. Good news!

Anthony writesL I was reading on the DVD Talk website about the annual Video Store Magazine DVD Conference and the article including some info about the TTT Extended Version DVD and a tidbit on the ROTK DVD. ‘One very encouraging note for Lord of the Rings fans who have bought or are planning to buy the Extended Editions – New Line has stated that they are not going to punish loyal fans who buy their Extended Editions buy putting out some sort of other ‘Super-Ultimate’ Edition or Collection after the third film is out. So your investment in the Extended Editions is safe.‘ [More]

Charly writes: This article (in Danish) tells that Peter Jackson and Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn) will attend the grand opening on ROTK in Denmark on December 14th. Apparently PJ has always wanted to meet the danish queen, and now he got the chance, since she will be attending the opening to. The danish queen has a great interest in Tolkien and LOTR in particular. She actually has illustrated a danish release of the books. [More]

Diamond Took writes: Sean Bean’s (Boromir) 1992 movie “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” is being released in the US on Tuesday, June 24th. I believe it’s being called “Lady Chatterly” here in the states. There was an article in the June 20th issue of “Entertainment Weekly”. [More]