StarECentral sums up the plot of ROTK [so, OK, spoilers] but also has a few nice quotes from PJ about what he aimed to achieve with the third film. [More] Thanks to Lee for the link. Here’s the not-spoilery bit from PJ: “As the story gets bigger and the stakes get higher, the intimacy of the storytelling and emotions get tighter and smaller, until you end up with two beings literally on their hands and knees, struggling to defeat an enormous evil. Yet, instead of wrath and revenge, they have to look inside for forgiveness, for in forgiveness there is redemption, not just for a handful of characters, but for all people. There is tremendous value to standing together for a common cause at times of great risk and looming destruction.”  

Anonymous sends along these HORRID pictures of the Mattel Barbie & Ken LOTR figures. They show Barbie as Arwen and Ken as Aragorn…I will now go wash my eyes out with Scope… !!!Spoilers!!! [More]

FAK (as well as others) write: I was sitting down enjoying a bit of Saturday morning telly and who should I see advertising a UK mobile phone store (phones4U)in a folked up stylee but the Flight of the Conchords (one half of which is Brett “Figwit” McKenzie).

A thrill-seeking German pop star wearing elf ears made a quick visit to Nelson this week. After a day in Queenstown bungy jumping and swinging across canyons on Wednesday, Gracia Bauer spent Thursday in Nelson filming a travel show based on the Lord of the Rings. [More]

There may be some good news for UK ring fans, the other day I was at the odeon in Glasgow, UK and was enquiring about Trilogy Tuesday. The information I got was that they are trying to work out something, apparently the marketing dept. is needing to get a hold of the other two LOTR films before they know if they could hold a back-to-back session of the trilogy. So I was told to just keep checking for info. Hopefully this should be a bit of good news for people.

Nick S writes: I thought you might be interested in these photos of my sons’, Daniel, LOTR model exhibition at our local museum in Hitchin, UK. Inspired by Lord of the rings (and Warhammer LOTR figures) Daniel produced two fantastic models of Helms deep and the Orthanc Tower. [More]