Folks from The Fellowship Festival write: For the Londoners amongst you, go and buy today’s copy of Evening Standard, London’s biggest newspaper and you can win the chance to enter a competition to be transformed into an Orc by Gino Acevedo from Weta Workshop at the forthcoming Fellowship Festival (28th – 30th August 2004, Alexandra Palace). Gino will be transforming three lucky readers, one for every day of the show into a gruesome Orc as part of his live make-up demonstration. For details on how to enter this once in a lifetime competition, go and buy The Evening Standard.

Natalia writes: I thought you would be interested in seeing this. A couple in the Philippines had a Lord of the Rings wedding. The couple planned every single wedding detail around middle earth. [More]

universalmusicstore.com is auctioning off some interesting items for ‘Songs of Hope’. CanadianCricket writes: As of this time bids for this Return of the King/Into the West sheet music signed by Annie Lennox are only at $51! I have to believe that with a little help from exposure on TORN’s main page that much much more could be raised for this worthy cause! [More]