Brian writes: Space: The Imagination Spacey Awards and two awards have just been given to TTT. Gollum received an award for the viewer voted category Favourite Creature Character. Andy Serkis accepted the award on behalf of Gollum with a humorous taped acceptance speech. Aragorn won for the viewer voted category Favourite Movie Hero. Viggo Mortensen accepted the award via a taped speech from the set of “Hidalgo”. Other awards won:

Best Action Sequence
Best Sc-Fi, Fantasy Movie

The Wizard writes: My daughter Stefanie and I recently returned from our trip to New Zealand. I thought you might be interested in what we saw and did there. Thank all of you so much for your help in planning this great adventure. [More]

An’ron writes: I thought fellow British LOTR aficionados might like to know about this concert. Sunday July 6th: RPO Filmharmonic; The best of Hollywood film scores from the 1960s to the present day, presented by Classic FM at the Movies’ Simon Bates. [More]

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) – Cable’s Discovery Channel will unveil its first original movie early next year. The movie, called “12 Days of Terror,” will dramatize the true story of a series of shark attacks off the New Jersey Shore in the summer of 1916. Four swimmers were killed and a fifth badly hurt in the attacks, which inspired Peter Benchley’s novel “Jaws.” The movie, based on a book by Richard Fernicola, stars John Rhys-Davies (“The Lord of the Rings” ), Jenna Harrison (“Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister” ) and Colin Egglesfield. It recently finished shooting in South Africa. [More]

K writes: The August issue of Total Film UK has a small article on the Return of the King. It is basically the same pictures that were released by New Line with a small article about what to expect. But for all those Orlando Bloom fans out there it comes with a poster of him in Pirates of the Carribean. [More]

Tracey writes: I just heard that MTV is showing a special on Entertainment Weekly’s IT list tomorrow (June 27th) at 10 PM. Being that Orlando Bloom (Legolas) is one of the people chosen in that list, I’m sure he’s going to be mentioned within the half hour.