Green Books is back with more updates:

  • Four poems and three works of fiction are up in our Ringer-submitted writing section, Moon Letters. [More]
  • And we’ve answered six of your burning questions in this month’s Q&A. [More]

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The Australian actor who once gave a voice to an animated movie dog is now speaking out on behalf of animals. Hugo Weaving is the face of Voiceless, a new animal rights charity which will spend $100,000 a year funding projects to raise awareness of animal cruelty, culls, factory farming and experimentation. [More]

Lucifer writes in: “You may not be able to read it, but it’s the National Taiwan University’s (One of the top schools in Taiwan) graduate school entrance exam of Dynamics. The whole is LOTR themed, with lots of innovative questions like: If Aragorn is driving a chariot on to the field with Theoden to fight the enemy, please help him to design a damping system for the chariot to overcome the bumpy field around Edoras….” [More]

Music-loving Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood is being lined up to host his own radio show in Britain. The Hollywood actor, 23, has been asked by pop flagship station BBC Radio One to stand in for veteran DJ John Peel when he goes on vacation later this year. [More]

Jicin writes: There’s a real funny spoof of LotR in Shrek 2. Shrek get’s a golden ring out of a fire, much like Gandalf did. He accidently throws it up in the ear and it ‘falls’ on Fionas finger in exactly the same way with Frodo at the prancing pony. Then words lit up that say ‘I love you’.

Stepper writes: Thought you’d like to see some photos of what must be one of the youngest Ringers, my son Max (b. July 2003) who has now been to ‘Edoras’ and the LOTR exhibition in Singapore. (These are photos he is going to be very upset about when he is a teenager!!). [More]