'Kingdom of Heaven' Promo Tour: Tokyo Various images of Orlando Bloom in Tokyo Wednesday, April 13, 2005. He was Tokyo to promote Ridley Scott’s ‘Kingdom of Heaven,’ the saga of a battling knight, played by Bloom, in the Middle East during the Crusades era. [More]

Turgon writes: We’ve just posted a new Science of Middle-earth Column by Olog-Hai, a brief update to one of his previous speculations. This update is called “Sex and the Single Orc”. [More]

John Rhys-Davies will be in the new NBC series ‘Revelations’ tonight (April 13th). Take a look at the website for this biblical thriller! [More]

New Zealand’s newest and largest international sound stage was officially launched by the Rt. Hon. Helen Clark today. It is a 24,500 sq. ft., 40 ft. high, soundproofed, fully enclosed studio space in which filming can take place uninterrupted by weather and other noise. This facility, the largest in New Zealand, is on a par with the biggest and best sound stages in Hollywood and London. The new sound stage joins the numerous other screen production resources in Miramar developed by Camperdown Studios Ltd., co-owned by Oscar® winners Peter Jackson, Richard Taylor and Jamie Selkirk. [More]

Michael Meads from the Neonatal Trust writes: I am a trustee of a charitable organization called the NeoNatal Trust, based in Wellington NZ. We are responsible for raising funds to buy life support equipment for premature babies and to give support and guidance to those parents and families of babies that have a difficult start to life. [More]

Michael Meads from the Neonatal Trust writes: I am a trustee of a charitable organization called the NeoNatal Trust, based in Wellington NZ. We are responsible for raising funds to buy life support equipment for premature babies and to give support and guidance to those parents and families of babies that have a difficult start to life.

We have been gifted two reproductions of John Howe’s “Barad-Dur” Giclee and film strip collectable plus “Gandalf on Gwaihir over Helm’s Deep” by Alan Lee.

We are currently Auctioning these two stunning pieces of art with trademe.co.nz. The Auction closes 22nd April.

If you go to trademe.co.nz (Trademe is an Auction site like Ebay) and search “neonatal trust” on their site the Charity Auction will come up with all of the detail about the art, how to make a bid and so on.