Ringer Spy Dana writes: Just wanted to give out the information that the 2 Hartford Symphony Orchestra LOTR concerts 9/18/04 @ 8 pm and 9/19/04 @ 3 pm are NOT being conducted by Howard Shore per HSO’s audience development/PR Manager Johannes Neur, who wrote: Howard Shore asked his good friend and conducting colleague Alastair Willis, resident conductor at the Seattle Symphony, to conduct the Hartford performance because Mr. Shore is heavily involved in writing a new score for a Martin Scorsese movie.

If you decide to return your tickets for a refund please contact Robyn Colossa at HSO Ticket Services (860) 244-2999.

A virtual world being created by Turbine Entertainment Software of Westwood, Massachusetts, is not yet ready for tourists. But once it is completed, tens of thousands of PC owners will be able to create their own characters and step into a land of hobbits, wizards, elves, orcs, and dwarfs, most of them controlled by other computer owners. [More]

The Screen Actors Guild Foundation sponsors Storyline Online, an on-line streaming video program featuring SAG members reading childrens books aloud. One of the Storyline Online videos features Elijah Wood reading “Me and My Cat” by Satoshi Kitamura. Go to the site and click on the book title. Thanks to Jen for sending the link in! [More]

I’m not sure if my fellow TORn news posters have already published this link, but both Staffer WeeTanya and Ringer Josh sent it in today. If you have been waiting for the video for the, now infamous Taters mix, check this out! [Click Here]